《小伙子古德蒙·布朗》是美国作家霍桑的短篇小说名作,小说讲述了主人公布朗经历了一段旅程和一次聚会之后,发现人人心中皆有罪恶,因而导致其信仰坍塌且性情巨变,最后抑郁而终。小说的主题旨在揭示宗教的虚伪和人性的丑恶。本文在结构主义理论下,通过分析文章中的二元对立项来探讨这部小说的意义。 “Goodman Brown” is a short story by the American writer Hawthorne. The novel tells the story of the protagonist Brown after a journey and a party, he found that all people have sin in his heart, resulting in the collapse of his faith and dramatic changes in nature, and finally Depression and eventually. The theme of the novel is to reveal the hypocrisy of religion and the ugliness of human nature. Under the theory of structuralism, this article explores the significance of this novel by analyzing the binary oppositions in the article.