通过这部小说，霍桑探索了关于尊严、守法主义和罪恶等一系列问题。

Throughout, Hawthorne explores the issues of grace, legalism, and guilt.

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The priests were able to construct a new identity and religion that stressed the sinfulness of the people, and the need for ritual purity and ritual observance and legalism as the road back to God.

这些牧师能够建造新的身份和宗教,强调人们的原罪，宗教圣洁和遵从律法的必要性,强调守法主义是重返上帝的必经之路。

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