Some might call it selfish to base one's actions on an internal scale of values ​​but, to me, it seems that I am the only one thing in the world I have any control over; therefore, my self must be the source and basis of my resources. Such a vision protects me from external circumstances, as it did for Orestes after the murders, because he found a free path through the condemnations and judgments of others. This is precisely Electra's failure: she did not have the courage to believe in herself and trust herself and was therefore a victim of the judgment of others. This was also the case with Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.” Although Goodman Brown had a glimpse of a reality that his community worked so hard to deny, he lacked the courage and self-confidence to pursue this discovery and ultimately replace his lost illusions about the community's values ​​with a perception of reality and a unique system of values! and to himself. He could not find it in himself to take the next step, from disillusionment to freedom, that Orestes and Biff had managed to find. Biff's brother, Happy, is a final example of someone who could not, or would not, step away from the refuge of conformity and test himself on the open sea.