中西文化差异下《小伙子古德曼·布朗》中象征意义的解读

An interpretation of the symbolic meaning of Young Man Goodman Brown in the context of Chinese and Western cultures

《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 Man Goodman Brown is an excellent short story written by American romantic novelist Hawthorne in the nineteenth Century. The novel tells the story of the young Brown in the heart of evil under the drive to the forest in the devil party story throughout the works is full of all kinds of mysterious intentions, to provide a wide range of imagination room for readers, also become the lover of literature appreciation and comments, critics focus. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the symbolism of the novel, to reveal the human nature that the novel is intended to express, and to criticize Hawthorne's views on religion and the contradictory views on Puritanism.