《年轻小伙子古德曼·布朗》是纳撒尼尔·霍桑最著名的短篇小说之一,深受无数读者的青睐,也得到了无数批评家的赞美与肯定。利用颇具邪恶色彩的背景,故事探讨了人们内心深处对其信仰的不肯定。通过解析人物与邪恶罪行之间的关联,阐明了什么是黑色力量。通过对故事所用象征手法及其他写作手法的分析,旨在进一步剖析作品及其作者本身给读者所带来的黑色印象。 Goodman Brown, one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most famous short stories, is favored by countless readers and praised and affirmed by countless critics. Using a rather evil background, the story explores the uncertainty in people’s hearts about their faith. Clarify what is black power by analyzing the connection between the character and the evil crime. Through the analysis of the symbolic and other writing techniques used in the story, the aim is to further analyze the black impression that the work and the author themselves bring to the reader.