Hawthorne’s“blackvision”oflifeandhumanbeings.docVIP

Hawthorne’s “black vision” of life and human beings 09 英4 As?we?can?see,?Hawthorne’s?literary?world?turns?out?to?be?a?most?disturbed,?tormented and?problematical?one?possible?to?imagine.? This?has?much?to?do?with?his?“black? vision”?of?life?and?human?beings, especially in The Scarlet Letter，this kind of writing characteristic can be tracked most adequately. So ,what is black vision exactly? ．The Hawthorne’s black vision?of?life?and?human?beings 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?”One? source?of?evil?that?Hawthorne?is?concerned?most?is?overreaching?intellect,?which?usually?refers?to?someone?who?is?too?proud,?too?sure?of?himself.? He?believed?that ?“the?wrong?doing?of?one?generation?lives?into?the?successive?ones,”?Hawthorne looks around the world with black glasses, the more sins they saw, and the darker the world is. The central subject of Hawthorne’s works is human soul. It is in his exploration of human’s soul—especially the dark side, that Hawthorne reveals his criticism of life. There were lots of ghosts, spirit die, grave, ghost black veil shuttle in and out in his works, and also the fate, evil and love were wandering around the character of his works all the time. He reveals the evil and ugly side hidden inside human’s soul by using mask, veil, shadow, and symbolism, ironic and ambiguous writing style. At the same time, as the influence of mysticism, Hawthorne considered the objective material world as the feint, and the essential of it was ghost. Therefore he tried to use symbol to reveal the conceal meaning in writing. In order to dig out the “evil inside everyone”. He was favor at writing the horror of super-nature, the weird of environment, the dark, abnormal of psychological activities. But those things were not created to scared people, but to explore the evil a