19世纪前半期美国小说家纳撒尼尔·霍桑创作了一系列世界文坛屈指可数的经典作品,作为美国心理分析小说的开创者之一,霍桑擅长运用直入人心的描写和巧妙的形象塑造手法来表现人物心理活动状态,为读者呈现真实、完整的人物形象。霍桑深受《圣经》内容影响,对夏娃因“向恶之心”而接受魔鬼诱惑的情节耿耿于怀,而第五章讲到的“原罪”更是证明了“人性本恶”观,这种观念和思想的作用深刻体现在小说人物性格上,霍桑在 Nathaniel Hawthorne, the American novelist in the first half of the 19th century, created a series of classic works from the world’s literary world. As one of the pioneers of American psychoanalytic novels, Hawthorne is good at using straight descriptions and ingenious images Shaping tactics to show the state of mental activity for the reader to present a true and complete character image. Hawthorne was deeply influenced by the contents of the Bible, and was infatuated with the episode of Eve being accepted by the devil because of “the evil heart”. The “original sin” mentioned in chapter 5 proved that “human nature This evil ”concept, the role of such ideas and ideas embodied in the character of the novel, Hawthorne