Briefly analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's“black” vision of life and human beings based on“Young Goodman Brown.”
【正确答案】：Young Goodman Brown is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most profound tales. In the manner of its concern with guilt and evil, it exemplifies what Melville called the“power of blackness" in Hawthorne's work.The hero, a naive young man who accepts both society in general and his fellow men as individuals worth his regard, is confronted with the vision of human evil in one night, and becomes distrustful and doubtful.Allegorically, our protagonist becomes an Everyman named Brown, a“young" man, who will be aged in one night by an adventure that makes everyone a fallen idol.According to Hawthorne,there is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life;but circumstances may rouse it to activity.A piece of literary work should“show how we are all wronged and wrongers, and avenge one another." In “Young Goodman Brown”，he sets out to prove that everyone possesses evil secret.The "birthmark" drives home symbolically Hawthorne's point that evil is man's birthmark, something he is born with.
