Arthur Dimmesdale性格分析
浅谈《推销员之死》中琳达的女性悲剧形象
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《杀死一只知更鸟》阿瑟拉德利的人物形象和性格特点
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丁梅斯代尔性格分析 《红字》中的人物丁梅斯代尔形象解读
《丁梅斯代尔性格分析《红字》中的人物丁梅斯代尔形象解读》摘要:丁梅斯代尔悲剧摘要:本文在简要介绍美国著名文学作品《红字》的基础上,分析作品中主要人物之一丁梅斯代尔的悲剧及其悲剧产生的原因,丁梅斯代尔这个受过良好的教育、文雅而持重的年轻牧师,在教区中担任至高的社会责任,是教区里德才出众的人物,认为自己是教区中最神圣的人,并笃信自己是“受上帝的召唤”、作为上帝的替身来从事牧师工作的,自然应该被仰慕、被爱戴,丁梅斯代尔是人的自然属性与社会属性冲突的焦点和集中体现关键词:《红字》丁梅斯代尔悲剧摘要:本文在简要介绍美国著名文学作品《红字》的基础上,分析作品中主要人物之一丁梅斯代尔的悲剧及其悲剧产生的原因。
一、《红字》作品简介《红字》(The Scarlet Letter)是美国19世纪浪漫主义作家霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)最杰出的代表作,也是整个美国浪漫主义小说中最有声望的权威作品之一。
小说的故事发生在17世纪中期加尔文教派统治下的波士顿,作者从当时的社会现状入手,描写了海丝特与神职人员丁梅斯代尔的爱情悲剧,作品以严酷的清教政权统治下的北美洲殖民地时期为背景,女主人公海丝特由于犯了通奸罪,坚决不交待同犯,曾被清教徒政权关进监狱,终生戴上耻辱的红字A示众(A字是英语通奸Adultery一词的第一个字母),作为劝告世人的活标本,受到人们的鄙视和摒弃。
透过这两个人物的处境,让我们看到了两颗破碎的心灵怎样在痛苦中呻吟。
故事同时也揭露了宗教对人们精神、心灵和道德的摧残。
文中的四个人物性格与命运各不相同。
海丝特・白兰(Hester Prynne)佩带的是有形的红字。
她出身没落的世家,父母贫穷而正直。
她的不幸的婚姻,加之两年中丈夫音讯皆无。
谣传他已葬身海底,这个孤苦无依的少妇与才貌相当的牧师丁梅斯代尔的爱情便显得合情合理。
事情败露后,她被迫终身佩戴红字,为了爱人的名声,她独自承担了全部罪责与耻辱。
出于对他的眷恋之情,她不但在他生前不肯远离他所在的教区,就是在他死后,仍然放弃了与女儿共享天伦之乐的优越生活,重返埋有他尸骨的故地,重新戴上红字,直到死后葬在他身边,以便永远守护、偎依着他。
从《哈利波特》中的人名来源解析其性格特征
除了上述提到的几个人物,还有许多其他角色也都具有独特的性格特征和命名 含义。例如纳威·隆巴顿、卢娜·洛夫古德、塞德里克·迪哥里等等,他们的 名字都承载着各自的性格特点和发展命运。这充分展示了作者J.K.罗琳的巧妙 构思和独特才华,她将人名与性格特征完美地结合在一起,创造出了一个令人 难以忘怀的魔法世界。
最后,我们可以看到,《名利场》中的女性的命运往往与金钱、名利和社会地 位紧密相连。贝基和爱米丽都曾为了金钱和地位而放弃自我,最终却落得孤独 和悲剧的下场。这也揭示了当时英国社会的现实:女性的命运往往被社会和家 庭所左右,而她们的幸福往往取决于金钱和地位的取得。
然而,《名利场》中的女性并非完全被动和无助的。她们具有强大的内心和智 慧,能够面对困境并尝试改变自己的命运。例如,贝基虽然遭遇了失败和挫折, 但她依然勇敢地面对生活,并试图重新开始。这种不屈的精神和对生活的热爱, 也是萨克雷所推崇的价值观。
最后,我们要探讨的是小说中的另一个重要角色Chillingworth。他是一个外 表平静,内心阴险狡诈的人。他对Dimmesdale的仇恨和嫉妒,使得他对 Hester和Dimmesdale的女儿珍珠充满了敌意。他的存在,使得整个故事更加 紧张和戏剧化。他的冷酷和无情,反映出了人性的阴暗面,成为了小说中一个 重要的参照点。
从《哈利波特》中的人名来源解析其性 格特征
基本内容
《哈利波特》系列是一部广受欢迎的魔法题材小说,其中的人物形象栩栩如生, 给读者留下了深刻的印象。这些人物的命名往往具有一定的含义和背景,从人 名来源解析其性格特征,无疑是一种有趣的尝试。
首先,从官方性格特征来看,《哈利波特》中的主人公哈利·波特是一个勇敢、 正义、聪明、坚韧不拔的年轻巫师。他在面对困难和危险时始终保持镇定自若, 敢于与邪恶势力作斗争。这种性格特征在他与伏地魔的斗争中表现得淋漓尽致, 他始终坚守自己的信仰和理念,为了保护朋友和家人,不惜付出一切代价。
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4.为这部影片的主轴表面上批判了米兰达的领导作风以及鼓励新鲜人要学习安德烈亚做自己认为有价值的工作,但是如果你是安德烈亚的话,你会做跟她一样的决定吗?如果不会,你的理由是什么?如果会,你认为还有哪些技巧可以改进?
解析
女强人的形象素来被描绘成个性阴晴不定,拏起电话就下达命令的女人;这种唯我独尊、为达目的不择手段的领导风格,如果出现在男性领导人的身上不足为奇,但出现在女性身上就被大加挞伐,那么让我们来想想,这是女性领导人的原罪呢?还是这种领导风格的问题呢?
《时尚女魔头》:领导人的魅力
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剧情介绍
由知名女星梅利尔·斯特里普主演的「穿着Prada的恶魔」(时尚女魔头),她饰演纽约风尚杂志Runway女主编米兰达,是一个专断的女强人,刚从学校毕业,原本想当记者的安德烈亚应聘当了她的二号秘书。这位乡下姑娘显然与崇尚时髦、奢华的杂志社文化是格格不入的,而身为著名时尚杂志的高级主管,米兰达自身就有着高贵时尚、举止优雅的特点。这些特质令她的手下羡艳并敬畏不已。然而她这一看上去美好的一面却只对外人展示。在杂志社内部,米兰达绝对称得上是个不折不扣的“女魔头”(从此以后,“女强人”又有一个新的代号)。安德烈亚落在她手里堪称饱受折磨:首先,这位乡下姑娘每次必须在指定的时间内把米兰达的两个调皮的女儿送上飞往巴黎的飞机;还要每次必须在水刚煮开的那一瞬间迅速关掉炉子,并第一时间给米兰达冲泡一杯香浓的咖啡,迟一秒钟都会被骂得狗血淋头……,但是不服输的个性,安德烈亚向米兰达证明她「使命必达」的能力(举例来说,她可以帮米兰达的两个孩子千方百计的弄到还没出版的哈利波特手稿)。
米兰达的领导魅力在哪里?
从《胎记》看霍桑的人性观
从《胎记》看霍桑的人性观《胎记》是美国文学大师纳撒尼尔·霍桑的一部经典小说,被誉为美国文学史上的杰出作品之一。
这部小说以17世纪的新英格兰为背景,讲述了一个被他人认为背负有罪孽的年轻妇女希斯特·普林特(Hester Prynne)的故事。
在整个故事中,霍桑表现了对人性的深刻思考和探索,通过塑造不同人物的性格和命运,展现了他对人性的独特见解和审视。
在这篇文章中,我们将通过分析《胎记》中的人物形象、故事情节以及作者所追求的价值观来理解霍桑的人性观。
通过分析小说中的主要人物形象,我们可以看出霍桑对人性的看法。
希斯特·普林特是这部小说中最为重要的人物之一,她以坚强和执着的形象展现了人性中的坚韧和勇气。
在面对周围人的指责和社会的压力时,她并未沦为自怨自艾,而是选择了坚守内心的良知和坚强。
与此小说中的另一位重要人物罗杰·柯尔丘恩(Roger Chillingworth)则展现了人性中的复仇和憎恨。
在希斯特怀孕期间,她的丈夫罗杰·柯尔丘恩长期失踪,并隐姓埋名地回到了新英格兰,成为了一名医生。
他对希斯特的胎记产生了病态的兴趣,并以医生的身份对希斯特进行监视和追求复仇。
通过这两位人物的对比,霍桑展现了人性中的光明与黑暗,善与恶,以及复杂的情感和心理。
通过分析小说的情节和事件,我们可以看出霍桑对人性冲突和矛盾的思考。
在小说中,除了希斯特和罗杰之外,还有一位年轻的牧师阿瑟·丹明(Arthur Dimmesdale)也扮演着重要的角色。
虽然阿瑟·丹明在社会上享有崇高的地位和声望,但他内心深处却痛苦不堪,因为他其实是希斯特所生的孩子的父亲。
他在整个故事中负着内疚和良心的煎熬,试图隐藏自己的罪行,却最终被内疚和痛苦击败。
这种内心的矛盾和冲突,是霍桑对人性内在矛盾的深刻观察和思考。
他认为人性并非是非黑即白的,而是充满了复杂的情感和矛盾,每个人都有自己的内心战争和挣扎。
浅谈《红字》中的人物分析及象征意义
浅谈《红字》中的人物分析及象征意义摘要:《红字》是美国19 世纪浪漫主义文学时期两大文坛巨匠之一的纳撒尼尔.霍桑的代表作之一,它被认为是美国第一部象征主义的小说,霍桑在该作品中大量地运用了象征主义写作手法,极大地提升了作品的文学性和艺术性。
与此同时,将美国的浪漫主义文,手法和美国清教道德理念相结合,具有一定的说教色彩,注重道德关注,该书以殖民地时期残酷的宗教统治为背景,反映了当时社会对女性的压迫,突出展现人在追求幸福中的强大动力,揭露当时社会的残酷法律条例,以及条例对人的精神摧残。
关键词:《红字》象征主义;海斯特.白兰;丁梅斯代尔;齐灵渥斯《红字》红字一书主要描述了英国的一位年老的,丑陋的医生齐灵渥斯送自己年轻、美丽的妻子海斯特.白兰到一个新的地方去波士顿建立美丽的家园。
在海斯特.白兰在遵循丈夫的嘱托建立美丽家园时,惊闻自己的丈夫齐灵渥斯已经死亡。
在这块她相对陌生的土地上,她遇见了年轻有为的、帅气的牧师。
在孤独中海斯特.白兰和牧师丁梅斯代尔相恋,并且生下了女儿珠儿,白兰被当众惩罚,拒绝说出珠儿的亲生父亲,戴上了标志通奸的字母“A”。
一、字母A 的象征该篇小说描述的不是海斯特.白兰犯罪堕落的过程,也不是众多戴着有色眼镜看她的人,而是描述海斯特.白兰勇敢地极力地默默地、无偿地资助他人。
随着时间的流逝,“A”不再是一个固定的符号,它的意义出现了改变。
“A”,最早代表Adultery,意思是犯罪,耻辱和堕落,是海斯特被人们认为堕落和不贞的象征,是对海兰通奸罪的表面认定;之后“A”代表Able,意为能力,有相应的能力,或者相应的才能;之后“A”代表Angle,象征着天使。
“A”的意义的变化,标志着一个女孩如何成熟的过程。
当然也有部分学者认为“A”有其他的含义,如原罪的符号,亚当之罪;也有学者把A 当作美国的象征,美国早期的清教徒迫于生计,漂洋过海来到美国。
“A”字的变化就表现的是美国的成长。
亚瑟.丁梅斯代尔,珠儿的父亲,同时也是众人眼中最年轻有为、最具有说服力、最具有演讲力的牧师。
海斯特性格 (3)
海斯特·白兰的多重性格分析黑土地上的红字“A”——海斯特?白兰的多重性格分析王冉摘要:海斯特?白兰是长篇小说《红字》中的女主人公——一位坚强、勇敢、善良并具有一定叛逆性格的女性形象。
本文将从她的勇敢和善良来分析这个人物.进而本文着重论述了海斯特对真爱的不懈追求和她在同时代女性中所独有的叛逆性格。
关键词:勇敢,善良,追求真爱,叛逆一、引言自古以来.男尊女卑的传统思想在人们的观念中根深蒂固。
传统的文学作品中也不乏对女性的藐视。
19世纪美国女权运动高涨,女权斗争进行得如火如荼。
20世纪.女权主义文学批评诞生于欧美。
霍桑以其小说《红字》中海斯特.白兰的新女性形象,吸引了女权主义者。
小说讲述的是一个发生在17世纪中叶早期马萨诸塞殖民地波斯顿的恋爱悲剧。
在小说中.随着故事情节的展开.主人公海斯特的反抗精神也随之强烈.并以其独特的反抗方式展现给世人。
二、女性中的勇敢者1、勇敢面对凌辱海斯特因通奸罪而被惩罚入狱、被当地村民唾弃.她并未因此而表现出任何脆弱。
就如文中所描述:“现在我们认为贵妇人的特征是纤巧、空灵和难以描写的优雅.而在当时却是某一种庄严的仪态。
如果按照过去对于贵妇人的解释,那么可以说,海斯特从不曾像从监狱里走出来时那么更似贵妇人。
凡是以前见过她的人。
预想她会在灾难的云雾中黯然失色的人,这时都觉得惊奇了,甚至怔了一怔,他们看见她闪现着非常美丽的光.简直使那围绕着她的不幸和罪恶结成一轮光圈”。
最为难得是的是,无论何时何地,海斯特都会勇敢地面对她胸前的红字“A”。
尤其是威尔逊牧师先生声色俱厉地叫着“说出那个人的名字来!那样,再加上你的悔悟.将可以去掉你胸上的红字”。
海斯特只是答复“决不会的!~我不愿意说!”2、独自养育珠几作为母亲的海斯特为了不与自己的珠儿分开.竞勇敢地跑到州长家来维护她对珠儿的抚养权利。
在清教徒严格的戒律下.珠儿就是海斯特与丁梅斯代尔罪恶的象征,她应该得到他人“更好的”照顾.老牧师也“并非不和善”地劝阻海斯特,并说他们会好好地照顾这个孩子的.而且比她所能做到的要好得多。
试论《暮光之城》人物形象
目录摘要 (1)关键词 (1)一、贝拉:孤寂而独立的公主 (1)二、爱德华:温柔而极端的王子 (2)三、雅各布:奉献而狂野的骑士 (3)参考文献 (4)试论《暮光之城》人物形象摘要:魔幻巨著《暮光之城》中,贝拉、爱德华、雅各布是三个令人印象深刻的人物形象。
他们的塑造关键在于,性格多方位,矛盾充斥,以及优劣的全面展示。
三人的形象血肉丰满,三人的世界相互交织,构成了整个《暮光之城》奇幻动人的故事。
本篇论文中,将对三人进行一一剖析,结合总体情节中的突出点,论述各个人物形象。
关键词:暮光之城;贝拉;爱德华;雅各布对于斯蒂芬妮·梅尔来说,《暮光之城》是一场美丽浪漫的梦。
它起源于斯蒂芬妮睡梦中奇幻的场景——少女与吸血鬼少年共同坐在开满鲜花的草坪,彼此眼中热烈的爱慕相互交织缠绕在一起。
这一幕,也在电影中出现多次。
作为与《魔戒》、《哈利波特》系列并肩的魔幻代表作,《暮光之城》无疑是成功的。
书中融合了吸血鬼与狼人传说,恐怖悬念,校园生活等等,直面血腥与残暴,使凄美动人的爱情故事血肉丰满。
伊莎贝拉,爱德华,雅各布,这三个身份迥异的人物形象栩栩如生,他们之间的爱恨情仇,牵动着万千观者的心。
一、贝拉:孤寂而独立的公主由于父母离异的缘故,伊莎贝拉·斯旺比同龄的女孩们独立,孤僻。
她不喜欢被关注,不喜欢高调的说话方式,不善与人交际,或者频繁参加舞会,洋溢青春的热力。
但同时,她孤独而渴望情感的内心使她敏感复杂,充满好奇。
阴雨连绵的福克斯小镇与贝拉有一定程度上的相似,她把自己放逐在这里,在感到新生活无措不舒适的同时,她渐渐发现周身环境与内心深处的某种共通。
这样性格的人似乎很容易一见钟情,在她所就读的学校里,她与爱德华相遇了。
那个时候,她还陷在思念母亲与过去的伤感之中,神秘的爱德华·卡伦与整个卡伦家族成功吸引了她的注意力。
当贝拉期望爱德华再次出现,Blue Foundation晦暗悠长的歌声响起,《Eyes on fire》像是专为不凡之恋所作的歌,低沉电音让我们感受到贝拉此时忐忑不安的心情。
24个比利人物介绍
1 威廉·斯坦利·米利根(比利,William Stanley Milligan),26 岁最初的核心人格,后来被称为“分裂的比利”或“比利” ;高中时被勒令退学,身高 6 英尺、体重190 磅,蓝眼睛,棕色头发。
2 阿瑟(Arthur),22 岁英国人,理性、冷酷,讲话带英国腔。
他自修物理、化学并研习医学,能流利地应用阿拉伯文。
他顽固保守、自认是资本主义者,但公开承认信奉无神论。
他是第一个发现有其他人格存在的人,在安全状况下负责管理,决定由谁来出现代表“家庭”。
戴眼镜。
3 里根(Ragen),23 岁充满仇恨的人格。
南斯拉夫人,讲英语时带斯拉夫口音,会塞尔维亚和克罗地亚语;武器和军事权威,精通空手道。
他体格健壮,能有效地控制肾上腺素。
他信奉共产主义,是个无神论者,职责是保护家庭成员,特别是妇女和儿童;在危机状况下负责管理。
他曾犯罪、吸毒,有暴力倾向;体重210 磅,虎背熊腰,黑发,八字胡,色盲,只画黑白图画。
4 亚伦(Allen),18 岁,骗子、操纵者。
他负责对外联络,不可知论者,人生态度为“得过且过”。
他会打小鼓、画人像,是唯一抽烟的人格;与比利的妈妈很亲近,身高与威廉·米利根相仿,体重略轻(165磅);头发右分,也是唯一的右撇子。
5 汤姆(Tommy),16 岁精通逃脱术。
好斗、具有反社会倾向,经常被误认为是亚伦。
他会吹萨克斯管,是无线电专家,还擅长风景画;头发蓬乱、发色金黄,眼睛为琥珀色。
6 丹尼(Danny),14 岁容易被惊吓,惧怕陌生人,特别是男人。
他曾被逼挖掘坟墓并被活埋,因此只画有生命的东西;留着棕色的齐肩长发,蓝色眼睛,身材瘦小。
7 戴维(David),8 岁充满痛苦,经常代其他人格承受痛苦。
他非常敏感,善于理解,但不能长时间集中注意力,大部分时间精神恍惚;头发为深棕红色,蓝眼睛,身材矮小。
8 克丽丝汀(Christene),3 岁经常被老师叫到角落罚站,因此被称为“角落里的孩子”。
米格尔街人物形象分类及理由
米格尔街人物形象分类及理由米格尔街是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯的一部小说《挑战越权》中的重要场景,描述了伦敦的下层社会和黑暗面。
小说中出现了众多丰富多样的街头人物形象,他们各自具有独特的特点和性格。
下面将对米格尔街中的人物形象进行分类和分析。
一、社会底层人物1.艾米-----艾米是小说中的女主人公之一,她是一个年轻漂亮的女子,以聪明和善良著称。
她从小孤儿院长大,与她一同生活的是她的亲戚蒙格尔先生和他的妻子。
艾米的形象给人留下了深刻的印象,她是一个被社会遗弃的人,但她依然保持着乐观和坚强的态度。
她通过自己的努力为自己和蒙格尔夫妇提供了生活所需,表现出了不屈的精神。
2.葛拉哈姆夫人-----葛拉哈姆夫人是米格尔街中的另一个重要角色,她是一个酒吧老板娘,经营着一家精神污染的酒吧。
她的形象代表了社会底层人士的黑暗面。
她利用自己的权力和地位来欺凌和剥削那些无助的人,是一个典型的凶狠无情的反派形象。
二、经济阶层人物1.赫文夫妇-----赫文夫妇是小说中的小资产阶级,他们通过经商赚取了一定的财富。
赫文夫妇是一个富有和虚荣的夫妇,他们希望通过对社会形象的追求来提升自己的地位和身份。
他们对社会底层人士抱有厌恶和歧视的态度,是一个典型的傲慢和自私的形象。
2.蒙格尔先生-----蒙格尔先生是艾米的亲戚,他是米格尔街社区的一名勤劳的工人。
他是一个善良和可信赖的人,对艾米非常关心和照顾。
尽管蒙格尔先生并不富有,但他通过自己的努力和勤奋来维持生计,是一个典型的勤劳和实诚的形象。
三、法律界人物1.托比斯·克拉基特-----托比斯·克拉基特是小说中的一位律师,他是一个触摸良心的人,为被社会遗弃的人士提供法律帮助和支持。
他的形象代表了法律界道德正直和仁慈的一面,他是一个积极寻求正义和为社会做出贡献的形象。
2.乌里亚·希普中尉-----乌里亚·希普中尉是小说中的另一个法律界人物,他极力推动改良社会底层人士的生活条件。
红字中白兰的性格分析及其作者对她的态度
海丝特·白兰的性格分析(Hester Prynne)by Nathaniel HawthorneThe character of Hester Prynne changed significantly throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner. She has gone against the Puritan ways, committing adultery. For this harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her natural life. Hester "was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance... she had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off sunshine with a gleam" . Her face was "beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion" . She is a beautiful, young woman who has sinned, but is forgiven.Hawthorne makes Hester a heroin and survives to a tranquil old age just by expiating her offence. She wore the scarlet letter A, somewhat willingly, for the purpose of confessing her sin, of meditating and of reforming herself. On this point, Mark Van Doren’s comments about Hester, in my interpretation, agree with Hawthorne’s original intention. Doren said that she is “heroic in size and strength…Although she came to be Puritanism’s victim, she never surrendered the integrity of her soul. Neither did she complain of her fate. Her fate was to waste her life, yet we do not feel in the end that her life was wasted. Rather it is known, she is immortal.”⒄Each Character has a secret sin that he or she wishes to confess and each of those sins affects the character that committed that sin as well as other characters in the story.性格分析2Although criticism of The Scarlet Letter for a long time took Dimmesdale as the central character, it has more recently reacknowledged what was well understood in Hawthorne's own time, that Hester is protagonist and center. The narrator allies himself with her and, despite occasional adverse judgments, devotes himself to her cause. His cause as narrator is to obliterate her obliteration, to force the reader to accept Hester's reading of her letter as a badge of honor instead of a mark of negation. The narrator forces us, just as Hester forces her Puritan townsmates, to see her as a good woman on her own terms. In contrast to the two distorted male personalities who counterpoise her-the one obsessed with revenge, the other with his own purity-Hester appears almost a miracle of wholeness and sanity. While these men struggle with their own egos and fantasies, she has real battles-to maintain her self-respect in a community that scorns her, to stay sane in solitude, to support herself and her child, to raise that child to normal adulthood despite so many obstacles. Curiously, though she has been cast out of society, Hester remains very much in the world, whereas Chillingworth and Dimmesdale at the very center of society, are totally immured in their self-absorption. In her inner integrity and her outer responsiveness, Hester is a model and a counterstatement.Cautiously, Hawthorne advances the notion that if society is to be changed for the better, such change will be initiated by women. But because society has condemned Hester as a sinner, the good that she can do is greatly circumscribed. Her achievements in a social sense come about as by-products of her personal struggle to win a place in the society; and the fact that she wins her place at last indicates that society has been changed by her. Might there be in the future a reforming woman who had not been somehow stigmatized by society? Although in his later works Hawthorne was to answer this question negatively, in The Scarlet Letter the possibility, though faint, is there.There is more to be said about Hester than space allows; let me confine myself to two points: first, the relative insignificance of her relation to Dimmesdale in comparison with her relation to Pearl-the supersession in her portrait of sexual love by maternal love. The downplaying of her passion for Dimmesdale means that--although she continues to love him, and remains in Boston largely on his account-her goodness and her essential nature are not defined by her relation to a man. Hawthorne does not cooperate in the masculine egotism that he excoriates in The Blithedale Romance by making Hester a mere event in the great sum of man. Hester is a self in her own right portrayed primarily in relation to the difficulties in her social situation, in relation to herself, and in relation to Pearl.Through Pearl, Hester becomes an image of "Divine Maternity" (1:56). But though so signally a mother, she is not a "mother figure." By detaching her from the social milieu that defines and supports the concept of motherhood, Hawthorne is able to concentrate on the relation of Hester to her child without any social implications. In fact, society in this instance wishes to separate the mother and child. By giving her a recalcitrant daughter as child, Hawthorne has even more cleverly set his depiction of motherhood apart from Victorian ideology. What remains is an intense personal relation that expresses Hester's maternal nature in a remarkably role-free way.But adult love, sexual love, has not been written out of the story by this emphasis, and this is the second point I would stress. At the end of the work Hester expresses the hope "that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of Mutual happiness." The "angel and apostle of the coming revelation must be a woman" who would show "how sacred love should make us happy, by the truest test of a life successful to such an end!" (SL:263). These are Hester's ideas rather than the narrator's, but he does not distance himself from her at this point. "Earlier in life, Hester had vainly imagined that she herself might be the destined prophetess." Hester could have had this vain imagining only during the very brief period of her secret affair with Dimmesdale, for once she was stigmatized she could have no further hope of living a life such as she describes. But during their affair, she felt that what they did had a consecration of its own-it was this consecration, then, that she wished to put to the test of a lifetime.Therefore, what Hester means by "sacred love" is really "sexual love," and she looks forward to the time when sex and love can be united by men in one emotion, a time when somehow women can heal the split in the male psyche. As Freud, writing later in the century, was to observe the male inability to feel passion and tenderness toward the same "object," so Hawthorne not many decades earlier found the male's revulsion and fear of sex leading him to separate from women and incapable therefore of love. Hester's letter represents not merely adulterous sex but all sex, and the image of divine maternity becomes even more telling than it seemed at first. Every child testifies to the sexual experience of its mother and is, in a society that finds sex shameful, a shameful object. For Hester to try to return to Dimmesdale by "undoing" her letter is to return to him incompletely, in a manner that denies sex, denies her child. It is no wonder that Pearl objects.What one senses here--though how opaquely!--is Hawthorne's tentative engagement with thesubject of men and their mothers, his suggestion that the relation between men and their mothers was the deepest and most central core of their lives. The great liberation of The Scarlet Letter comes not only from its celebration of a woman, but of a woman who is centrally a mother (73-53).3From the beginning, we see that Hester Prynne is a young and beautiful woman who has brought a child into the world with an unknown father. She is punished by Puritan society by wearing the scarlet letter A on the bosom of her dress and standing on the scaffold for three hours. Her hair is a glossy brown and her eyes deep-set, and black, her attire is rich, carefully caressing her slender figure. The scaffold is a painful task to bear; the townspeople gathered around to gossip and stare at Hester and her newborn child, whom she suitably named Pearl, named because of her extreme value to her mother. In the disorder of faces in the crowd, young Hester Prynne sees the face of a man she once was fiercely familiar with, whom we later learn is her true husband, Roger Chillingworth. Her subjection to the crowd of Puritan onlookers is excruciating to bear, and Hester holds the child to her heart, a symbolic comparison between the child and the scarlet letter, implying that they are truly both intertwined.41、霍桑对女主角是同情的,但又无法逾越宗教思想的束缚。
毕业论文:红字中海斯特的形象分析
A Brief Analysis of the Image of Hester inthe Scarlet LetterA Thesis SubmittedTo Foreign Language DepartmentOf College of Information & Business,Zhongyuan University of TechnologyIn Partial Fulfillment of the RequirementsFor the Degree of Bachelor of ArtsByStudent ID Number:Supervisor:May 29th, 2011论文摘要霍桑的《红字》,是美国19世纪文学史上的经典作品,这篇著作反映了清教思想对人生活思想的影响。
本篇著作的背景发生在波士顿一个小镇上,介绍了这个地区的人是如何被清教所影响的,其中女主角海斯特·白兰和镇上受人尊敬的牧师丁梅斯代尔通奸并生下女儿珠儿,作为惩罚,她被戴上红字“A”——“Adultery”的象征。
本文通过分析海斯特的性格,也展现了清教法规苛刻无情的刑罚,在清教社会,不管谁犯罪都要接受惩罚。
本文还涉及到霍桑的清教观,他对清教价值观和思想的肯定以及对其消极方面对人民思想控制的批评,这也决定海斯特最后的命运是在经过艰苦工作、自我提升后得到救赎。
霍桑通过塑造海斯特这个形象向读者展示了他的清教观,以及清教思想对他的影响。
海斯特最初是勇敢坚强的,最终却在清教社会的压迫下,承认了自己的罪过并通过赎罪得到了社会的认可。
通过红字“A”象征意义的变化反映了海斯特的形象变化。
关键字:清教影响; 海斯特性格;原罪;救赎AbstractThe Scarlet Letter,Nathanie l Hawthorne’s representative wo rk, is a classical novel in American literature in the 19th century. The novel displays Puritanism’s great impact on people’s life and thought. This thesis of the Puritan town Boston, and introduce how the communities in the town are deeply influenced by P uritanism. The heroine Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, the town’s reverend priest, engages in the act of adultery and produce a baby girl named Pearl.Meanwhile, by analyzing the main character Hester, the thesis aims at presenting the harshness and the strict punishment in Puritan society. In puritan communities, whoever commits a sin will be punished. The thesis also presents Hawthorne’s attitude towards Puritanism. On one hand, he appreciates the puritan thought and value; on the other hand, he condemns the negative impact of puritan society on people’s spirit. And this thought influences Hester’s final fate—to get salvation through self—improvement and hard working. Hawthorne explains his puritan thoughts through creating Hester. Hester is brave and strong, as a sinner, Hester finally get salvation by working hard.key words:Puritanism; Hester’s characteristic; sin; salvationTable of ContentsAbstract(Chinese) (Ⅰ)Abstract(English) (Ⅱ)1.Introduction (1)2. Hawthorne’s Intention of Creating Hester. (1)2.1 Puritan Infulence on Hawthorne (1)2.2 Hawthorne’s Own Thought on Puritanism (2)3. Original Image of Hester: Strong and Brave (4)3.1 A Graceful and Beautiful Lady (4)3.2 Eager for True Love (5)3.3 Protecting Dimmesdale (5)4.As a Sinner, W orking Hard to Get Salvation (5)4.1 Being Shamed for “Adultery” (5)4.2 Working Hard As a Mother and Sinner (7)4.3 Final Image of Hester: Angle, Bearing the Pain of Losing Lover (8)Conclusion (10)Bibliography (12)Acknowledgements (13)1.IntroductionThis novel happened in Boston, which was a colony of England in 17th century. At that time and at that place, the doctrine of Puritans was looked as the rule of people’s daily life. Hawthorne was born in a puritan family, whose grandfather was an authority. That made him was deep influenced by Puritanism. On one hand, he received the doctrine of hard working and thrifty, on the other hand, He thought that the Puritan religion was too strict and harsh. We can see how he disliked them by the way people act, talk, and live.Hester Prynne is a woman, who has great courage to devote to real love and a woman who experiences hard life and longs for freedom. She loves her life no matter how difficult it is. She tries her best to struggle against the adversity. She is a beautiful, virtuous, brave and tough woman. Because of being as a sinner, she is forced to wear an ―A‖ on her breast to shame her. She showed extreme strength and courage to resist the bias of the Puritanism by her good deeds and finally is received and being respected by the society and get salvation through hard working.2.Hawthorne’s Intention of Creating HesterHawthorne was born in a puritan family so that he was deep influenced by Puritanism, but the strict punishment and the control of people’s spirit also made him antipathy. Thus he created Hester, who was sinned and punished by puritan authority, but finally got salvation by hard working. Hawthorne created her sinned but also praised her braveness and strength.2.1 Puritan Influence on HawthorneThe story tells about the life of the resident under the surrounding of persecution derived from the ineradicable religion in Massachusetts of Boston in New England in public. Boston, which was a colony of England at that time, the local Boston people was the representative of puritans. From the political authorities to thekids playing before the church, their characteristics are the same. The thesis aims at any differences from others are hereto. At the early cultures of Boston, ages and experience are emphasis; there is no culture of younger. That’s why Hawthorne makes the story happens there. To the puritans, any person or thing which is different from them will be punished or be banished. To the puritans, the laws are sacred; anyone who breaks the law should be punished strictly, that’s the special environment which Hester lived in.All his life, Hawthorne seems to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life. Reading his tales and romances, one cannot but be overwhelmed by the ―black‖ vision which these works reveal. Evil exists in the human heart as is evident, for instance, in the short story, ―Earth’s Holocaust,‖ which tells us that, though all symbol of tradition and the past have been burned in the bonfire of the life of the New World, the source of evil—the human heart—remains intact. Everyone seems to cover up his black veil (―The Minister’s Black V eil‖). Evil seems to be man’s birthmark (―The Birthmark‖).A. H. Quinn perceptively states that Hawthorne is at his best when dealing with sin, the supernatural, and New England past, The Scarlet Letter is set in the seventeenth century. (Barlow,2000,3)It is en elaboration of a fact which Puritanism ruled. Hester was sinned adultery, which cannot be forgiven and must be punished at that time, this reflects Hawthorne’s thought of sin, everyone has sin and they must use their whole life to expiate themselves. But he also thought the punishments are too harsh. Thus why he made Hester sinned, but didn’t admit her sin.2.2 Hawthorne’s Own Thoughts on PuritanismIn this novel, Hawthorne uses the repressive, authoritarian Puritan society as an analogue for humankind in general. The Puritan setting also enables him to portray the human soul under extreme pressure. Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth, while unquestionable part of the Puritan society in which they live, also reflect universal experiences. Hawthorne speaks specially to American issues, but he circumvents the aesthetic and thematic limitations that might accompany such focus. His university and his dramatic flair have ensured his place in the literary canon, tolerant and cruel. He thinks that the Puritan religion was too strict and harsh. Readerscan see how he disliked them by the way people act, talk, and live.Meanwhile, he also shows how he thought the Puritan people would react to the manner in w hich Hester stitched the ―A‖, and he d oes not make them look very pleasant. By showing them as being ruthless, and evil, Hawthorne is able to reveal his views of the Puritan people, and how he dislikes them through the townsfolk (the woman in particular). He makes them come across as people you would love to hate. Throughout the entire book, Hester is looked down upon though slightly less as the story progresses, and is treated like a second class citizen. Hawthorne shows his distaste of the Puritan culture by expressing himself through the characters and their actions. Not one person in this novel is truly good, and all the characters sins. It is impossible to have a perfect society, and Nathaniel Hawthorne explains to us in The Scarlet Letter, that one is ruled by the Puritan religion, proves this true.(Gao,2000,4) Nevertheless, although he is shocked by the Puritan injustice, he is convinced that there is both good and evil in Puritanism. He thinks a lot about the conflict of God as omniscient and omnipotent on one hand, and vengeful and cruel on the other. He sees that religion is able to produce evil. Things like the witch trials, where innocent people have to die, can happen in his Puritan hometown of Salem, which leads him to the opinion that the fusion of religious dogma and political authority is the worst evil. His ancestors and all the other Puritans maybe think to have found the devil when prosecuting witches, but Hawthorne is of a different opinion. Hawthorne’s answer is that devil existed in everybody. It makes people blind so they are not able to recognize the evil in themselves.In a whole, Hawthorne’s attitude towards Puritanism is split. There are things he is absolutely in favor of and things he condemns from the depth of his heart. And to some extent, Hawthorne is a Puritan because of his Puritan origin. It is Puritanism that has led to today’s American achievement oriented society. But Hawthorne describes the Puritan society of the 17th century as narrow and relentless. He does not share the dogmas and delusions of the people who are condemned, because he has little interest and less belief in doctrines and theological debate. His imagination is repeatedly drawn the subjects of temptation, guilt and shame. He seeks the depth ofthe human things.Of course Hawthorne’s p oint of view is that of the 19th century, not that of 17th century, where his short stories are settled. He is aware of his roots and history, but he questions these roots and history from his modern point of view.Back to his attitudes towards the Puritanism of ancestors, when Hawthorne read the accounts about his first American ancestors, he was reported to have read them with fascination and horror. He was different from his ancestors.The way Hawthorne makes Hester’s fate goes with the Puritans. She sins, is forced to wear a letter ―A‖ on her breast, is isolated by the townspeople, but finally is respected because of her kind-hearted. This can be assigned the origin to .Hawthorne’s experiences that he has isolated from the outside after he graduates from university. Hawthorne has ever said to Longfellow, the most fearful thing is that you can not share your happiness or sorrow of your daily life to others. One who is deprived the right of join the society, is an audience but not a participant, Max said that one is a social man because man has to live in the society, or he will lose the meaning of exiting. (Chang,2009,76)Hawthorne thinks Hester should resign the punishment of Alienation, which is seen as the cruelest one. Hester should turn over a new leaf by expiating herself.Hester’s fate is designed; she has no choice because she lives in a puritan society and Hawthorne’s puritan thoughts also determine her fate. The next chapter aims to describe the original image of Hester and the typeface meaning of her original image.3.Original Image of Hester: Strong and BraveHester’s entrance is an attractive and graceful lady like a lady of quality, which makes her different from the town people. Although she sins, she acts brave and dare to admit her sin, dare to get salvation through her acts.3.1A Graceful and beautiful LadyHester is attractive when she appears. She is a slender lady who herself with a deliberate grace. She has a beautiful face with deep black eyes. To most people, shelooks more like a graceful lady from the upper class. But Hawthorne’s female characters tend to fall into two broad categories, the blond and effete, and the dark-haired and sensual Oriental type. To the latter belongs Hester Prynne, attractive, appealing, and mildly aggressive, she represents sexual guilt as love with her is fatal, but she is really pure and innocent. Y oung Hester borders on being licentious. Her drive is sexual. One need take just a casual look at her luxuriant head of black silky hair to understand this of her. But she lives a rigorous life; only once does she let loose her lovely hair. (Barlow, 2000, 21)3.2 Eager for True LoveHester Prynne leaves a deep impression to the readers. Hester is a woman, who has great courage to devote to real love and a woman who experiences hard life and longs for freedom. She loves her life no matter how difficult it is. She tries her best to struggle against the adversity. She is a beautiful, virtuous, brave and tough woman. Hester marries with an unloved ugly old man, nothing but having great knowledge admired by all fools. However, when Hester goes to Massachusetts of Boston, She falls in love with Dimmesdale who is her true lover. It should be a good matter, so to speak, if she could divorce from the oldest Chillingworth and then marry Dimmesdale it would be a romantic love story. Unfortunately, it is disgraceful of a married woman to love another man even if that is her beloved one in that abnormal time. So, what a disgraced thing it is that she has to be set up to public shame and wore a mark of shame upon her bosom letter A stands for adultery that makes her bring sermon against sin, until the ignominious scarlet letter be engraved upon her tombstone .But that does not impact on her life even if all dwells give a wide berth to her and use the most incautious words to aggress her later. Because of her benevolence, the inhabitants accept her gradually though they insult her sometimes. Hester does not mind it, because what she concerns is Whether Dimmesdal e’s life is good or not.3.3 Protecting DimmesdaleWhen being put into prison, Hester refuses to confess who the father of the baby is, she protect Dimmesdale though Dimmesdale is too recreant to admit the sin. After Hester commits the sin, the Puritan society immediately enforces its law againsther. ―Hester betrayed her husband and went against the principle of honesty on Puritan, so she must accept the severe penalty in the Puritan society at that time.‖ Apart from wearing the red letter ―A‖, she has to suffer public shame on the scaffold.Though the love between Hester and Dimmesdale is true, Hester is a woman who is married. Both of them sin, they have to be punished and get salvation through their acts.4. As a Sinner, Working Hard to Get SalvationIn puritan’s doctrine, one should get salvation by hard working, Hester must be tortured until she receives forgiveness from God, and all that she can do is to bear until she gets salvation.4.1 Being Shamed for “Adultery”The authorities of puritan pu t an ―A‖ on her dress to shame her, to let her remember her sin and to alien her from the mental and physical. Originally, ―A‖ stands for adultery, that’s the sin Hester violate. Because of this letter, she is looked down upon by the villagers and is isolated.Hester Prynne suffers not only bec ause of mankind’s original sin, but also, and more decided by her adultery with Dimmesdale. Adultery is an offense towards God so she must be pun ished severely. In fact, Hester’s life is full of misery after the exposure of her crime. The first time Hester Prynne walks out of the prison with her baby, she is punished to be set in the market-plac e where ―stern-browed men‖ and ―unkindly-visaged women‖ and ―a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys‖ may ―have a fair sight o f her brave apparel.‖ This kind of public exposure is not considered sympathetic in local people’s eyes. Instead, it is ―a blessing on the righteous colony of the Massachusetts, where iniquity is dragged out into the sunshine!‖(Maibor, 2004, 6) Although it is no great distance from the prison-door to the market-place, to Hester Prynne, a prisoner, it is reckoned a journey of some length. However haughty she is, ―she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart has been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon.‖When Hester Prynne finally stands on the scaffolds, she is crowded by people who are somber and grave. She does her best to support herself under the heavy weight of a thousand relenting eyes, all fastened upon her, and concentrate upon her bosom. People do not insult her with terrible words; however, Hester feels much more suffocating in ―the solemn mood of the popular mind‖. She is so uneasy that she even wants to be insulted by venomous words rather than to bear all those rigid countenances. She can repay with a bitter and di sdainful smile at the multitude’s scornful la ugh. But encountered with such ―leaden infliction‖, she feels that unless ―shrieking out with the full power of her lungs, and cast herself from the scaffolds down upon the ground, or else go mad at once.‖(Maibor, 2004, 10)Although Hester Pr ynne tries to make the scarlet ―A‖as beautiful as an ornament and herself like a graceful grandeur dame, as one woman in the crowd describes: ―the pang of it will be always in her heart.‖ (Hawthorne, 2009, 368) If all the things make Hester feel humiliating, the recognition of her husband in the market-place aggravates her bad feeling and even frightens her severely. Then whe n she is sent back to the jail, she is exciting, can’t control her and even hurt her poor little baby. When the doctor---in fact Hester’s real husband comes in, she immediately become as still as death. After their talk, Hester promised to keep his real identity. This makes her not only guilty, but also crisis-ridden.Hester P rynne’s term of confinement ends, but not so as her sufferings. She comes out of the prison-door and comes forth into the sunshine, which ―falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if mint for no other purpose than to reveal the scarle t letter on her breast.‖ She knows that a more real torture, when she begins the daily custom, comes. For the guilt she has committed, she is shut out from ―the sphere of human charities‖. (Chang, 2009, 78) Hester earns her living by her excellent needlework, which is rather popular among people in the following years. However, it is never used to embroider the white veil which is used to cover the pure face of a bride. This exception indicates the ever vigor with which society frowned upon her sin. In all her intercourse with society, however, there is nothing that makes Hester Prynne feels as if she belongs to it. Every gesture, every word, and even thesilence of those with whom she comes in contact, implies and often expresses, that she is banished. The token---the scarlet ―A‖never grows callous; it seems, on the contrary, to grow even more sensitive with daily torture.All these sufferings intend to remind Hester that, as a sinner, a betrayer of God, she must be tortured until she receives forgiveness from God. All that she can do is to bear until she gets salvation.Sin is unpleasant and painful. No one in the world wants to suffer. All of us hope that we can stop every kind of suffering some day. That is not just a wish that is far away and can’t be achieved. God’s love is universal and lenient. God has a soft heart, which doesn’t want to see people who are tortured. ―Praise the L ord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.‖(Song, 2001, 23)4.2 Image of Being a MotherAs Pearl’s name suggests, she comes from sin, but she is pure. She is also a constant reminder–to Hester and to the townspeople–of Hester's sin. Hester dresses her with bright color and named her pearl, and that shows her love to her baby. Though Pearl is regarded as the result of Hester and Dimmesdale’s adultery, she is still a pearl to Hester. Hester gives all her hope to Pearl. She is still a brave mother and a protector of Pearl.Through Pearl, Hester becomes a n image of ―Divine Maternity‖(Hawthorne, 2009, 451). But though so s ignally a mother, she is not a ―mother figure.‖By detaching her from the social milieu that defines and supports the concept of motherhood, Hawthorne is able to concentrate on the relation of Hester to her child without any social implications. In fact, society in this instance wishes to separate the mother and child. By giving her a recalcitrant daughter as child, Hawthorne has even more cleverly set his depiction of motherhood apart from Victorian ideology. What remains is an intense personal relation that expresses Hester’s maternal nature in a remarkably role-free way.This chapter aims at Hester’s changes from ―Adultery‖to ―Alien‖, and then being ―Able‖. As a sinner, Hester works hard to get salvation. Next chapter intends to tell Hester’s final image.4.3 Final Image of Hester: Angle, Bearing the Pain of Losing LoverHester is th e only person who wears the ―A‖in the whole article. Puritan authority’s power forces her to wear it all day long after the punishment of three hours standing on the scaffold. Hester can leave the Massachusetts colony, but she does not flee. She regards the place as her home living as the type of shame. It is love, which is the only reason for her to live in that place. The kind of love is declared guilty according to the puritan religion, which takes the asceticism as the local law at that time. ―There trod the feet of one with whom she deemed herself connected in a union….would bring them together befo re the bar of final judgment, and make that their marriage-alter, for a joint futurity of endless retribution (Hawthorne, 2009,489 ). May be at that time, Hester’s choice seems a little innocent. Just for the faith for love, which can also be regarded as the passion in a short while though wild nature as she has, she restrains her be behavior from then on for she thinks herself commit an offence. She swears of keeping the secret of the relationship between her and her husband Chillingworth shows that she is in blame at that time and puzzled with her love.Hester decides to expiate herself because she is eager to integrate into the society. Hawthorne’s puritan thoughts make this ending. And Hester her own characteristic makes her final choice.The later seven years consume her a lot from spirit to body. The scarlet letter does not change her from appearance but from the inside of her, on the contrary it lets her grow strong and think deeply the guilty of herself. She finds that the problem happens between her and Dimmesdale is not solved. Nothing changes. The free thinking temperament does not make her atone from her crime but be more puzzled. Hester tries her best to insist on and protect her love, her lover, and she struggles with the hard environment. Hester’s counterattack to Chillingworth identifies that she has a kind of more strong power at that time. This power comes from her love to Dimmesdale. Then the meet between Hester and Dimmesdale in the forest describes one possible way of resolving the problem. They plan to flee away to live a happy life and shake off the so-called sin here. The plan of fleeing reflects the human nature oflooking for happiness. Hester has already known how to get what she wants and how to realize love. She stands for the thought of releasing from the original, sin and the possibility of happy life of female. She completes the discussion of significance of love through the scarlet letter.The love between Hester and Dimmesdale is true. However, their end is a tragedy. Because of the long inner torture, Dimmesdale dies and then Hester comes back to her home England and memorizes their love. After Pearl married, she goes to Massachusetts and stays with Dimmesdale. Their love is great, but because of this love, Chillingworth hates Dimmesdale and tries his best to revenge him, at last, it results in the tragedy.ConclusionThrough the discussion above, the thesis can conclude that Hester Prynne is resurrected by her pious atonement. The process can be found clearly in the c hanges of the meaning of the scarlet letter ―A‖. At the beginning the letter ―A‖, worn on Hester’s bosom is a symbol of her adultery against Roger Chillingworth. This is the puritan way of treating her as a criminal, for the crime of adultery. The puritan treatment continues, because as Hester walks through the streets, she will be looked down upon as if she is some sort of demon from hell that has committed a terrible crime. This letter is meant to be worn in shame, and to make Hester feel unwanted. The sc arlet letter ―A‖ also stands for Hester’s lonely life in New England. After she is released, Hester lives in a cottage near the outskirts of the city. Hester’s social life is virtually eliminated as a result of her shameful history. Hester has no friends in the world, and little Pearl is the only companion of her lonely life, so the scarlet letter ―A‖ also is a symbol of the words ―alone‖ and ―alienate‖. Later, the scarlet letter ―A‖ changes its meaning into being able, angel, and admirable. The townspeople who condemned her now believe the scarlet letter to stand for her ability to her beautiful needlework and for her unselfish assistance to the poor and sick. At this point, a lot of townspeople realize what a noble character Hester processes. Hester overco mes the shame of her sin through the purity and goodness of her soul. Unselfishly, offering hertime and love to those who need her most proves that she is not worthy of the fate which has been dealt to her.Being a religious sinner who has severely profaned God and thus considered as a betrayal, Hester Prynne, like all the others, also enjoys God’s universal love. We can find out through her words and deeds that, although she has made a terrible mistake, she doesn’t separate herself from God consequently. Instead, she accepts all the punishment society forces upon her and behaves gently and kindly. What she acts is just good evidence as her atonement for her sin, she is brave when love with the clergy. She is hard working as a sinner. She is hopeful as a mother. She is regarded as an angel after getting salvation.BibliographyBarlowe Jamie. (2000). the Scarlet Mob of Scribblers: Rereading Hester Prynne. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 3—21.Maibor Carolyn R. Labor Pains NY: Routledge, (2004) Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott on Work and the Woman Question. 6—10.McFarland Philip. (2004). Hawthorne in Concord.中央编译出版社。
黛西_米勒性格探析
辽宁广播电视大学学报2009年第1期总第110期文史哲学研究《黛西·米勒》是亨利·詹姆斯的成名作 然而正如评论家所指出的 这部中篇小说最初的声誉既得益于它所呈现出的艺术技巧 同时也与作品中同名女主人公性格的模糊性所引起的争论密不可分。
应该说在作品问世之初并不全是赞扬之声 尤其是许多美国女士认为黛西·米勒的性格过于“无知粗俗” 又爱“卖弄风骚” 因此这一形象“不够光彩” 更有人说这是对美国姑娘的“中伤” 然而更多的人则认为黛西不仅热情美丽、天真单纯 而且崇尚自由 追求精神独立 “体现了一个站在美国人的立场但脚下根基并不踏实的詹姆斯”在“美国姑娘优于全世界”的思想意识支配下所精心打造的一个“楚楚动人的形象” 并从而造就了“美国姑娘”这样一种著名的文化类型。
不难看出 上述争论的焦点即在于如何界定黛西的真实性格以及詹姆斯在作品中所流露出的对她的态度和评价。
其实在笔者看来 黛西的性格特征可谓是瑕瑜互见 并且存在着极大的模糊性 而作家本人对她的态度也是极其矛盾复杂。
因此 本文试图弃绝黛西性格特征界定过程中的先入之见 对其作出一个相对全面而公正的评价 进而准确地领悟作者的创作意图 以期实现对作品的深层解读。
一、自然——黛西性格特征和全部行动的关键所在在小说的第一部分 詹姆斯就经常使用“自然的”“清新的”等词语来描绘他的女主人公 并且在对名字的选择上——黛西Daisy 他可能也暗示了她的天真单纯和她的源于本色的美丽。
而在第二部分开始之初的沃尔克太太家的那一场戏之后 詹姆斯则通过继续使用上述词语来使暗示的效果得到了强化 最重要的是他还通过大量的富于象征意义的自然界意象的使用 从而赋予了它们某些不同的重要意义。
在罗马 当温特伯恩从欲阻止黛西与吉奥瓦尼里一起散步未能如愿愤怒而返的沃尔克太太所乘的那辆马车里下来以后 看到黛西与吉奥瓦尼里正置身于一个自然的环境中 詹姆斯对于这一场景进行了浓墨重彩的描写 “显然 他们都沉醉于对方了 周围的一切 他们根本没有理会。
外国戏剧《推销员之死》人物分析
外国戏剧《推销员之死》人物分析分析《推销员之死》外国戏剧中的威利——09广告学李琼200903113021 《推销员之死》是典型的现实主义悲剧,现实主义悲剧是社会的悲剧,所以从剧中的主角威利·洛曼的悲剧中我们可以看见一个社会的悲剧。
威利是个巡回推销员,就像他的名字Lowman 所暗示,他属于社会的低层人物,没有固定工资,只领佣金。
他们推销的只是别人的东西,他相信,人只要讨人喜欢,具有魅力,世界的大门就朝他敞开。
威利的偶像是推销员大卫·辛格曼,他活到84岁,只要在旅馆里拨个电话,就能做成交易,死后在新英格兰有许多买主和同行为他送葬,极尽哀荣。
他把自己的生活建筑在这样的梦想之上,由于他总是生活在自己想象的世界中,把幻想当作现实,所以会常常说大话。
他不顾自己推销事业已经走向下坡的事实,吹牛说自己在新英格兰如何重要,说自己的销售额如何高,他就这样陷进自己的谎言中不能自拔。
可是老威利已63岁了,干推销这一行已经34年,现在的新老板不顾及他早年立下的汗马功劳,狠心的解雇了他。
然而家里却还有零零碎碎许多开支要支付,两个儿子事业也不成功。
经济负担、精神负担加上长途驾驶,威利心力交瘁,精神错乱。
就这样威利的一生在错误的梦想中度过,也为了一个错误的梦想而死。
到快死的时候威利发现,他自己就像他分期付款购买的东西一样,等你付完款后,东西便用尽或者坏了。
他付清了最后一次房款,而他却到坟墓里安息去了。
在美国社会,人老了就象被吃光了肉的橘子一样,皮被扔掉。
主人公“威利”就生活在这个时代,是美国人的二三十年代(钢丝录音机发明),那是一个牛奶和面包的递送是以利润最大化、而非效用最大化为原则的。
所以,牛奶会掺三聚氰胺,威利也会面临失业和本的诱惑。
除了经济与生存的问题。
此剧还展示了以其为基础的一系列关联的范畴:梦想与现实,父与子,夫与妻,贪婪与淡然、运气于拼搏……《推销员之死》给人的第一印象是美国底层无产者的命运悲剧:威廉?洛曼劳碌一生,临近退休公司却将他开除,走投无路之下自杀换得保险金以帮助自己的儿子立业。
论《红字》中阿瑟.丁梅斯带尔
论《红字》中阿瑟·丁梅斯代尔—高尚与脆弱人格的矛盾统一性刘浩宇史小平(湖南信息职业技术学院湖南望城410200 中南大学外国语学院湖南长沙410083)摘要:《红字》是世界文学殿堂中的名著,同时也是霍桑的成名作。
当读者读到这部作品时总是被女主人公心地善良的人格和动人心弦的爱情所感动,而往往忽略了丁梅斯代尔。
海丝特和丁梅斯代尔都是犯了通奸罪的罪犯,他们在书中都展现出了特有的对清教教义社会的反抗。
面对罪孽,丁梅斯代尔挣扎于人性与神性的冲突中,最终在上帝恩典的感召下认罪悔过,以生命的代价获得了灵魂的救赎。
本文将丁梅斯代尔推向前台,分析其人格的两面性—高尚与脆弱。
关键词:《红字》高尚脆弱矛盾统一性On the Contradictive Unity of Arthur Dimmesdale’s personality—Loftiness and Frailty in The Scarlet LetterLIU Haoyu SHIi Xiaoping( Hunan Information College, Wangcheng, Hunan 410200Foreign Language School of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083) Abstract:The Scarlet Letter is a famous novel in the world literature. There is no doubt that it is Hawthorne’s masterpiece. Whenever readers read it, they are always moved by the heroine’s good personality and her touching love story, as a matter of which they usually depreciate Arthur Dimmesdale, the partner of adultery. Confronting sin, Arthur Dimmesdale struggles against the conflict of humanity and godhood, and finally comes to confess his sin, and repent in the call of God’s grace, consequently attaining atonement in his death. This thesis attempts to put Arthur Dimmesdale in the foreground and analyze the duplic ity of his personality—loftiness and frailty. Key words: the Scarlet Letter Loftiness Frailty Contradictive unity一.前言霍桑上美国19世纪最具矛盾性的浪漫主义小说家,是美国“文艺复兴”时期与基督教关系密切且具特色的作家之一,她的代表作《红字》是美国文学史上划时代的作品。
哈姆雷特人物分析
矛盾复杂的性格彰显悲剧命运——哈姆雷特人物形象分析诞生于文艺复兴时期的文坛巨作《哈姆雷特》以其生动丰富的情节个性鲜明的人物形象广阔的社会背景集多种成分为一体的艺术特点征服了当时乃至现代的无数读者 Birth ofliterarymasterpiece takes Renaissance Hamlet with its lively and vivid plot distinctive character image the broader social background collect a variety of ingredients for the integration of artistic characteristics and conquered was even modern countless readers尤其是主人公哈姆雷特矛盾复杂的性格加之深刻的社会背景更让人深思不仅彰显了人物的个人悲剧更是那个时代悲剧命运的真实写照。
Especially hero complex characters Hamletcontradiction and profound social background more let a person think not only reveals the characters personal tragedy but also tragic fate that era of portraiture. 开篇介绍哈姆雷特是具有新型世界观的文武全才是朵举世瞩目的娇花如果登上王位自然是开明君主的典范。
在他身上寄托着国家与民族复兴的希望体现出资产阶级对统一国家的理想。
哈姆雷特性格特征。
哈姆雷特是一个处于现实和理想矛盾中的人文主义者曾经对天地万物、人与社会都充满了美好的希冀。
但是现实的严酷与丑恶打破了他的美好理想他的人文主义的信念破灭了。
作为一个人文主义者哈姆雷特在复仇道路上的犹豫显示了他所代表的人文主义与封建势力的悬殊。
《傲慢与偏见》女性形象解读
《傲慢与偏见》女性形象解读《傲慢与偏见》是英国作家简·奥斯汀的代表作之一,被誉为世界文学史上的经典之一。
在小说中,奥斯汀着重描绘了18世纪英国社会中的女性形象,展现了不同性格和境遇的女性在婚姻、社会地位等方面的挣扎和成长。
本文将通过具体分析文中几位女性角色的形象,探讨奥斯汀对女性的描绘和对当时社会的批判。
首先,我们来看一下小说中的主人公伊丽莎白·班内特。
伊丽莎白是一个聪明、独立、有主见的女性,她不轻易妥协自己的理想和原则。
在社会礼仪和传统观念束缚下,她拒绝了富有却傲慢的达西先生的求婚,因为她认为他的人品和态度不值得自己倾心。
这种坚持自我和对内心声音的倾听,展现了伊丽莎白的坚韧和勇气,同时也体现了奥斯汀对女性独立自主精神的赞赏和呼吁。
另一位重要的女性形象是简·班内特,伊丽莎白的姐姐。
简是一个温和、善良、柔弱的女性,她对世界保持着一种纯真和善意的态度。
然而,正是这种过于信任他人和不愿看清现实的品质,使得她在感情上受到了伤害。
简的形象揭示了奥斯汀对女性过分软弱和依赖的批判,她呼吁女性要学会独立思考,要有自己的判断和主见。
除了班内特姐妹,小说中还有其他女性形象,比如露西亚·斯蒂尔和夏洛特·卢卡斯。
露西亚是一个勇于追求自己幸福的女性,她不惜一切代价追求自己的目标,甚至不择手段。
相比之下,夏洛特则是一个务实、现实的女性,她看清了社会的现实和自己的处境,选择嫁给了自己并不爱的人,为了生活和地位做出了妥协。
这些不同性格的女性形象在小说中相互对比,展现了不同类型女性在当时社会中的选择和挣扎,呈现了奥斯汀对女性群体的多样性和复杂性的观察和描绘。
通过对这些女性形象的分析,我们可以看到奥斯汀在《傲慢与偏见》中对18世纪英国社会中的女性地位和境遇进行了深刻的反思和揭示。
她通过不同性格和命运的女性形象,呼吁女性要有独立自主的精神,要勇敢追求自己的幸福,同时也要看清社会的现实和自己的处境,做出明智的选择。
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Arthur Dimmesdale
Arthur Dimmesdale, like Hester Prynne, is an individual whose identity owes more to external circumstances than to his innate nature. The reader is told that Dimmesdale was a scholar of some renown at Oxford University. His past suggests that he is probably somewhat aloof, the kind of man who would not have much natural sympathy for ordinary men and women. However, Dimmesdale has an unusually active conscience. The fact that Hester takes all of the blame for their shared sin goads his conscience, and his resultant mental anguish and physical weakness open up his mind and allow him to empathize with others. Consequently, he becomes an eloquent and emotionally powerful speaker and a compassionate leader, and his congregation is able to receive meaningful spiritual guidance from him.
Ironically, the townspeople do not believe Dimmesdale’s protestations of sinfulness. Given his background and his penchant for rhetorical speech, Dimmesdale’s congregation generally interprets his sermons allegorically rather than as expressions of any personal guilt. This drives Dimmesdale to further internalize his guilt and self-punishment and leads to still more deterioration in his physical and spiritual condition. The town’s idolization of him reaches new heig hts after his Election Day sermon, which is his last. In his death, Dimmesdale becomes even more of an icon than he was in life. Many believe his confession was a symbolic act, while others believe Dimmesdale’s fate was an example of divine judgment.。