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纳撒尼尔.霍桑的家族历史和个人经历赋予他的作品浓重的清教主义色彩,其短篇代表作《年青小伙古德曼.布朗》尤为突出。霍桑通过对布朗皈依之旅的象征性描述,深刻揭示了清教信徒的死板和自我怀疑,以及这种信仰体制所带来的种种恶果。
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s family history and personal experience endowed him with a strong Puritanist style. His shorthand “Young Goodman Brown” is particularly prominent. Through a symbolic description of his journey to Brown, Hawthorne reveals the rigidness and self-doubt of Protestant believers and the consequences of this belief system.