纳撒尼尔·霍桑是19世纪美国浪漫主义杰出的作家代表。在他的多数作品中都反映了他对人类心灵的思考和对最高意义的生活状态的探索。兰朵而·斯图尔特曾经讲过,霍桑的作品是对生活的最高意义的评价。霍桑1804年出生于美国马萨诸塞州塞勒姆镇,在他所生活的时代,人们的行为和思想受到清教主义的束缚。他的作品大多数被人们贴上了清教主义、家族罪恶、原罪的标签,造成这种现象的原因主要有两个:霍 Nathaniel Hawthorne is an outstanding writer representative of American romanticism in the 19th century. In most of his works, his reflection on the human mind and his exploration of the highest state of life are reflected. As Lantern Stewart once said, Hawthorne’s work is an evaluation of the supreme significance of life. Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804 and in the days in which he lived, his behavior and thoughts were bound by Puritanism. Most of his works are labeled as Puritanism, family sin, and original sin. There are mainly two reasons for this phenomenon: