good youngman brown 体现了什么样的清教思想？
这个跟它的主题有关，现在一般有两种看法（但是都有争议）：
一种认为布朗的经历是“虚构的真实”，就是说他的经历带有奇幻色彩，看到的都是真实发生的。这种情况下，可以简单概括为人的“表里不如一”吧。
另一种认为布朗的神巧此经历只是他的一个噩梦，这里就涉及了清教徒的一些思想了。反宽链映了清教徒严格的道德标准，过度地强调人的原罪，对任何事物抱有怀疑和不信任的态度。游迅。。
不过不管他的经历是真是假，布朗最终还是成了个疑心病很重的人，觉得周围的人都不可信，最终算是郁郁而终吧。。。而且正是清教徒的一些思想和教育束缚住了布朗，让他丧失了信仰。。。
If one believes in the “fictional reality” (虚构的真实）of the story, the theme would be that there is always gap between what one looks like and what one really is, between public virtue and private sin.
If one tends to see Brown’s experience as his own nightmare, the theme would be how the Puritans’ strict moral code and overemphasis on the sinfulness of humankind foster undue suspicion and distrust.
Whether or not the meeting in the woods is reality or dream does not matter. In either case, Goodman Brown’s experience in the forest causes him to lose his faith in others and die an unhappy man. The point is that Puritanism required their followers to doubt themselves and their community, and this mistrust and self-doubt that is inherent in Puritan education and doctrine does not create faith and peace. It creates only further confusion instead.
