Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to（ ）.

Questions and Answers ：Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.

“Young Goodman Brown” is one of Hawthorne's most profound tales. What is the allegorical meaning of Brown, the protagonist? What does Hawthorne set out to prove in this tale? How does Melville comment on Hawthorne's manner concerned with guilt and evil?

Questions and Answers: Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.

Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is often read as a conventional allegory. What does the work symbolically concern?

In 1853（ ）went to Europe and traveled in France and Italy, and the experience helped him produce a book The Marble Faun.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is about ______ people in a Puritan community affected by the sin of adultery. 

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote（ ）to reveal his own experiences and his own methods as a psychological novelist.

Questions and Answers：Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's view of man and human history originates, to a great extent, in Puritanism. What are the effects of Puritanism on Hawthorne?

Questions and Answers：Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.

“Young Goodman Brown” by Hawthorne exemplifies the power of blackness in society in general. What is the metaphorical meaning of Brown's experience in the woods?

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?

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works, intellectuals are usually（ ）, because they are devoid of warmth and feeling.

Questions and Answers ：Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.

“Young Goodman Brown” is one of Hawthorne’s most profound tales. What is the allegorical meaning of Brown, the protagonist? What does Hawthorne set out to prove in this tale? How does Melville comment on Hawthorne’s manner of concerning with guilt and evil?

Reading Comprehension: Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space.

‘Poor little Faith!’ thought he，for his heart smote him. ‘ What a wretch am I，to leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too. Methought, as she spoke, there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done tonight. But no, no! ’t would kill her to think it. Well; she’s a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night , I’ll cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven.’

Briefly discuss the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works.

Question and Answer

Give brief answers to the following question in English. 

What does Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter tell us and what does he focus his attention on in this work？

Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.

How does Hawthorne prove himself to be one of the best symbolists?

Reading Comprehension 
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.
Be it so, if you will. But, alas! It was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man did he become from the night of that fearful dream. On the Sabbath day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen because an anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his ear and drowned all the blessed strain. 

​Reading Comprehension: Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English．Write your answer in the corresponding space .

“'Faith! Faith!’ cried the husband. ‘Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One.'”

Questions and Answers：Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.

What are the artistic characteristics of The Scarlet Letter?

Topic Discussion: Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English.

“ ‘My faith is gone!’ cried he（Goodman Brown）,after one stupefied moment. ‘There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.’ ”（from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”）
Make a comment on this passage.

Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.

Please discuss Hawthorn’s symbolism in his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter.