In Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, a Satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne's allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the “power of______ . ”
A、blackness
B、whiteness
C、error
D、hypocrisy
【正确答案】：A
【题目解析】：《小伙子布朗》是霍桑最著名的小说之一。小说讨论罪行邪恶，具体说明了麦尔维尔所说的“黑暗的力量”。小说的主人公是一个天真的小伙子，既接受社会，又接受他所关心的周围的人，但后来在一个可怕的夜晚遇见了人类的邪恶，从此以后怀疑一切。答案为A(P435)。
