文档介绍：Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Puritan Ideology
original sin: devocates the adoption of good deeds and penitence to wash away sin, purify mind to get salvation.
Original sign
(1)出生以来,每个人都有罪的痕迹,人就有动机上的扭曲的心(心术不正),很容易犯任何动机上的罪;(2)这内在的罪性乃是一切实际上犯罪的根源;(3)这是用一种神秘的方法,由亚当传递给我们的,他是我们在神面前头一个代表。
原罪的说法就是:我们不是因为犯了罪才成为罪人,乃是因为我们是罪人,所以才犯罪,人生来就有受罪奴役的性情。
The two religious beliefs of puritan
Covenant of Works.
According to the Bible, Adam break the agreement with God and that’s why people have to work to survive.
Covenant of Grace.
God send his son, Jesus to the world to save the special kind of people:”Elect”. But those who are chosen is only a few, and you don’t know whether you are chosen until dead. Therefore, you have to live a simple life without much desire, which means, refine human nature. If you are elected, you can go to paradise after death.
Symbolic Meanings
1. Young
young, pure and simple Brown

gloomy and dark forest which is outside the village.
Young Goodman Brown
Faith
Faith is Brown`s wife, and the word “faith” in English means something people stick to for all. Brown also stick to his faith firmly. In this novel, no matter in the dream or in reality, the presence of Faith is a great shock of Brown because he always believes that the God is up above, faith is down below, and he is sure to resist evil. He hovers in the forest and wants to go back to Faith because he loves his wife and he also wants to find his faith to others and God again. And when he finds that his wife is also in the forest, he thinks his faith has gone. This “faith” can be his wife as well as his faith towards others and God.
Pink Silk Ribbon
The pink silk ribbon is talked about five times. Pink is the color between red and white. Red always means perversions and white always means pure and innocent. Therefore, some critics think that pink is not perversions and not pure, but a pure condition which is tarnished.
Time
Most of the affairs in the novel happ