摘要
《好小伙布朗》是美国著名作家霍桑的一部闻名遐迩的小说。小说思想深刻，笔触细腻，语言犀利，手法独到，深入挖掘了人性中的善恶。小说中各种写作手法的运用信手拈来，光彩四溢。
本文旨在分析《好小伙布朗》中的象征主义写作手法。通过分析霍桑小说中的象征手法的运用，深入分析了人性中受原罪驱使的恶的成分，展示了作者对于人性问题的自我思考。本文第一部分首先简要介绍了该论文的研究目的、意义等。第二部分介绍了霍桑的生平、写作手法及《好小伙布朗》的主要情节。第三部分主要分析了《好小伙布朗》象征主义的写作手法。最后本文针对上述的论述得出结论。通过分析，本文意图帮助更多的读者深入了解小说中通过象征手法所要表达的深刻思想意义，并领略霍桑优异语言驾驭才能带来的文字盛宴。
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关键词：霍桑；《好小伙布朗》；罪恶；象征手法；
Abstract: Y oung Goodman Brown is a famous novel written by the American writer Hawthorne. With deep thinking, delicate words, sharp expression and unique writing tact, it explores the kind and evil of the human nature.
This paper aims to analyze the writing technique of symbolism in The Y oung Goodman Brown. By ana
lyzing the application of symbolism, this paper analyzes the evil part in the human nature driven by original sin. It demonstrates the retrospection of the author in human nature. The first part of this paper introduces the objective and significance of this
paper. Then it introduces life experience of Hawthorne, his writing techniques and the plot of Y oung Goodman Brown. The third part mainly analyzes the writing technique of symbolism adopted in Y oung Goodman Brown. The last part draws a conclusion according to the above discussion. This paper aims at helping more readers to get know of the deep thinking significance of the novel through using the writing technique of symbolism and appreciating the masterpiece brought about by the excellent language skills of Hawthorne.
Key words:Nathaniel Hawthorne; Y oung Goodman Brown; Symbolism
Content
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合同变更Symbolism in Nathaniel H awthorne’s Young
Goodman Brown
1. Introduction多少岁退团
Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most influential American romantic writers in the 19th century. He wrote many world-famous novels, such as The Scarlet Letter, The Hou of the Seven Gables, The Blithe dale Romance, The Marble Faun, Young Goodman Brown and so on. His novels are rich in imagination and strict in structure. Besides psychological analysis and description, Hawthorne also prefers to apply many writing techniques like symbolism, metaphor, allegory and so on. The exquisite planning symbols add to the romantic color of his novels and deepen the implied meanings. The novels win him the title of the master of symbolism.Young Goodman Brown is an excellent short novel written by Hawthorne in 1835. Despite its short and not complicated plot, this novel reflects many profound philosophies of life and rich historic connotations. The emingly plain story has behind it profound meanings.
Symbolism, a kind of writing technique adopted in Young Goodman Brown, contributes a lot to the successful creation of this novel. Recently, more and more scholars are interested in carrying out rearches on symbolism adapted in Young Goodman Brown. The scholars come up with their own perspectives and provide help for readers to better understand the deep meanings concealed under the surface of mere words.
This paper intends to analyze the author’s skilled employment of symbols in the short story. This paper can be divided into the following parts. This thesis first discuss Hawthorne’s writing features and the plot of Young Goodman Brown. Then, this paper analyzes the writing technique of symbolism in details. There are many symbols adopted in this novel, such as symbol of names, symbol of colors, symbols of the journey and so on. Through analyzing the writing technique of symbolism, this paper aims to make readers be more familiar with Hawthorne’s writing features. It will be helpful for readers to better understand his other novels through analyzing one of his short novels Young Goodman Brown.
The application of symbolism helps deepen the theme of this novel. By adopting symbolism, Hawthorne wants to awaken people’s n of consciousness and remind people of the importance of goodness. Hopefully, this thesis can enable readers get a more comprehensive and systematic recognition of Hawthorne’s work Young Goodman Brown and his writing technique of symbolism.初遇见
2. Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) is one of the most remarkable and distinguished American romantic writers in the 19th century. He was born in July, 1804 in Salem, Massachutts. His family
members are devout puritans, who puritan thoughts exerted a great influence on Hawthorne’s mind. We can find the
puritan thought of original sin, total depravity, limited atonement and others described in his works. The thoughts were deeply rooted in Hawthorne’s mind. That is the reason why Hawthorne devotes himlf to the creation of moral and allegorical novels.
The description of the dark side of human nature and the society is the prominent feature of Hawthorne’s works. He is pathfinder of psychological novel. Thus, he is good at analyzing human being’s inner heart. Hawthorne pays special attention to the exploration of problems like morality and sin. He strongly advocated that human beings can receive salvation by means of good deeds and lf confession in order to wash away sins and purify hearts. Nevertheless, Hawthorne does not all describe the dark side. At t he same time of exposing social evils and human beings’ deeply-rooted bad habits, Hawthorne shows his great sympathy for many kind-hearted people. Just as another American writer Herman Melville point that the darkness described by Hawthorne makes daybreak, which moves forward in darkness, brighter (Shu, 2007, P5). Hawthorne’s works are characterized by rich imaginations and well-organized structure. In addition to the analysis and description of psychology, Hawthorne also applies the writing feature of symbolism. By adopting symbolism, Hawth
月的古诗orne adds more romantic colors to his works and deepens the allegorical meanings.武术的特点
Young Goodman Brown is one short story of Hawthorne’s. In this novel, Hawthorne us writing technique like symbolism. In order to get a deep understanding of this writing technique, we have to first be familiar with the plot of Young Goodman Brown.
The story takes place late in one evening in Salem, Massachutts. A young man named Brown lives in this town. Brown is a puritan. In this evening Brown, ignorant of his newly-married wife Faith’s incessant dissuasion, leaves his home and takes part in an unspecified but obviously unholy ritual in the forest. On his way to the ritual, he comes across a mysterious figure deep in the forest. Under the ducing of this mysterious old man, Brown enters this forest. Upon they arrives at the meeting, Brown is astonished to find that many respectable niorities who are considered as devout Christians, and all other common people living in this town all take part in this gathering.Brown is disheartened and surprid when he heard his wife’ voice. It turns out that his pure wife Faith also takes part in this meeting. As a result, recognizing that he has lost his Faith (in both ns), Brown becomes disheartened and hold a doubtful attitude towards all participants, including his wife. He thinks that everyone is evil. At the end of the story, Hawthorne does not make it clear whether all what Brown has en is a real fact or just a dream but Brown is deep ly shaken.
He leads an unhappy and gloomy living pattern for the rest of his life. He is wary of everyone around him. He los faith and belief of life. In the end, Brown dies in disappointment and sufferings.
3. Symbolism
3.1 Symbol
A symbol is something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that reprent something el by association, remblance, or
convention. In literature, Arthur Symons in his The Symbolist Movement in Literature said, “it (the symbol) came to devote eve ry conventional reprentation of idea by form, of the unen by visible.”(Symons, 2004:52). That means in literature study, symbol suggests a connection between the ordinary n of reality and a moral or spiritual order. According to etymology, symbol literally means something that has been put together. The source of the word is the Greek word subaltern that refers to the idea of putting things together to contract them and ultimately became a word that was ud for compare.
4. Symbols in Young Goodman Brown
种牙过程
4.1 Symbolic meaning of names
We can e that the title of this novel is Young Goodman Brown. What is the author’s intention by using a word “young” in front of his name? Of cour, Hawthorne has his own writing intentions. Y oung means that Brown is still inexperienced and immature. He has not enough awareness of the world of evil and sin. Nevertheless, after he takes part in the gathering in a dark forest, he said: “My Faith is gone……There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name.” (Hawthorne, 30) After finding put that everyone is untrustworthy, including his wife. Brown becomes “a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man.” (Hawthorne, 1999: 44) Brown is disheartened and he los faith in everyone and his own life. His personality of weak-minded, inexperienced and immature is thus revealed through the word “young”. After the meeting in the forest, Brown leads a desperate, gloomy life for the rest of his life.
The word “Goodman” means that Brown is a pure and innocen t young man to begin with. He is a good-natured person. Unable to avoid temptations of the devil, Goodman Brown insists on leaving his wife for the prent and goes to take part in a gathering in the forest. It is just like other human beings in the world who cannot avoid temptations of various evils. How to face with the temptations is the key point of testing human nature. When Brown arrives at the gathering, he finds
out that many respectable people in this town all take part in this meeting, even his wife is included. “The young man has the vulnerability of youth and, having newly yielded to the persuasions of the Devil, he has been led step by step to mistrust all he had believed in” (Abel, 1969:131). His good nature is greatly challenged by the outside evils. Therefore, the word “Goodman”symbolizes the transformation of a good-natured person to an experienced person. Hawthorne us the name Goodman to show the innocence, purity and inexperience in human nature. Before the journey, Brown is an inexperienced young man. He holds an active and optimistic attitude towards life. All the undergo changes when he takes part in the meeting in the forest. During his journey, he comes across an old man, who symbolizes evil. Being tempted by him, Brown finally participates the meeting. There, he es many emingly kind-hearted people in the town. They turn to be hypocritical deep in their heart. Brown is so shocked and disheartened upon eing this scene. After the meeting, Brown becomes gloomy, experienced and skeptical. Pure Brown is not innocent any more. He grows mature in a short time. Despite this kind of mature is horrible, mirable and sad, it is
