As a great symbolist writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne often uses symbolism to express his ideas in his novels, and his short novel Young Goodman Brown is a typical one. In this novel, Hawthorne uses a lot of symbolism in characters, objects and environment, such as Goodman Brown, his wife Faith, pink ribbons and dark forest to present the theme clearly: evil is the nature of mankind. According to the symbolism, the “original sin” is well expressed and reflected in the novel. As a great symbolist writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne often uses symbolism to express his ideas in his novels, and his short novel Young Goodman Brown is a typical one. In this novel, Hawthorne uses a lot of symbolism in characters, objects and environments, such as as Goodman Brown, his wife Faith, pink ribbons and dark forest to present the clearly distinct: evil is the nature of mankind. According to the symbolism, the “original sin ” is well expressed and reflected in the novel.