论霍桑的邪恶观

纳撒尼尔.霍桑是美国文学史上最伟大的作家之一。他以浪漫寓言著称。上帝和邪恶问题是他作品中最重要的主题之一。霍桑认为邪恶是所有人的本性，而固有的堕落是社会一切罪恶的根本根源。所以他写了更多关于个人罪，而不是关于社会。本文试图以年轻的古德曼·布朗和红字为例，展示霍桑的邪恶观。

【Abstract:】 Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the greatest writers in American literary history. He is famous for his romantic allegory. The issue of god and evil is one of the most important themes in his works. Hawthorne thought that evil was the nature of all human beings, and the innate depravity was the basic root of all the evils of the society. So he wrote more about the individual guilt than about that of the society. In this essay, the author tries to take Young Goodman Brown and Scarlet letter for example to show Hawthorne's View of Evil.

【Key words:】evil sequence of a sin nature of human beings.

The story o f Young Goodman Brown tells us that Brown leaves his newly married wife Faith in that evening, to undertake an undefined journey that must be done between "now and the sunrise". He sets out into the forest, bends on his evil purpose, but promising himself that after this one night, he will cling to Faith's skirts and follow her to heaven.

Conclusion:
The great American writer of fiction, Nathaniel Hawthorne, showed a great interest in the problem of guilt, and his major novels generally dealt with sensational material, like poisoning murder, adultery and crime. He lived in an age when dynamic influence of Puritanism was gone and the impact of romanticism and Transcendentalism was largely felt among the intellectuals and thus he made his efforts: to explore the roots of all kinds of social evils. The view of that Evil is nature of human being is showed obviously in the fiction "Young Goodman Brown" and "Scarlet Letter ". Knowing this will do good to understand Nathaniel Hawthorn's fictions better. It's necessary to know the writer's background and inside view before understand the fictions.

Bibliography:
1997,胡荫桐、刘树森主编，《美国文学教程》，南开大学出版社