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《小伙子古德曼·布朗》(Young Goodman Brown)是19世纪美国浪漫主义小说家霍桑的优秀短篇小说。小说讲述了年轻人布朗在内心罪恶的驱使下前往森林参加魔鬼聚会的故事,通篇作品充满了各种神秘意向,为读者提供了广泛的遐想空间,也成为广大文学爱好者、批评家欣赏及评论的聚焦点。本文旨在通过对小说的象征手法进行分析,揭示小说所要表达的人性本恶的观点,以及霍桑对信仰不彻底的批判及对清教主义的矛盾看法。
Young Goodman Brown is an excellent short story by Hawthorne, a 19th-century American romantic novelist. The novel tells the story of a young man, Brown, who was driven by inner evil to go to the forest to attend a gathering of devils. Throughout the work, the novel is full of mysterious intentions, providing readers with extensive reverie space and a vast literature lover and critics’ appreciation. The focus of the comment. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the symbolism of the novel, to reveal the point of view of the human nature embodied in the novel, and of Hawthorne’s incomplete critique of religion and the contradictory view of Puritanism.