Questions and Answers：Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. What’s the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown?
A. YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN IS ESSENTIALLY AN ALLEGORY. IT IS CONCERNED WITH A YOUNG PURITAN WHO ATTENDS A WITCHES' SABBATH IN THE WOODS.
B. GOODMAN BROWN’S JOURNEY IS A SYMBOLIC JOURNEY 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 HAWTHORNE’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”.
