What’s the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne’ s Young Goodman Brown?
A.Young Goodman Brown is essentially an allegory. It is concemed with young Puritan who attends a witches'Sabbath in the woods.
B.Goodman Brown's joumey is a symbolic joumey of discovering sin and evil in human hearts.The discovery is horrible in that it makes Brown a distrust and doubtful man forever.
C.In dealing with the theme of guilt and sin, Hawthorne exemplifies the"power of blackness".
D.The story faithfully reflects Hawthomne's Puritan belief: "There is evil in every human heart,which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
