英美文学欣赏资料-红字the scarlet l

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Story Synopsis
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The Scarlet Letter told a story of a puritan woman Hester Prynne who was punished to wear a scarlet A which stood for the crime of adultery. The pretty young lady tried to settle down in Boston with her old and ugly husband Chillingworth, a scholar. But the latter did not appear for years. During this time, Hester committed adultery with a local Minster Dimmesdale, and gave birth to a girl Pearl. Facing the terrible punishment, Hester refused to give her lover’s name away to protect him.
The Scarlet Letter
-----Nathaniel Hawthorne
19th century American Romanticism Hawthohaniel Hawthorne
Novelist and short story writer, a central figure in the American Renaissance. Nathaniel Hawthorne's best-known works include The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). Like Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne took a dark view of human nature.
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Book review and summary
The Scarlet Letter represents the height of Hawthorne's literary genius .It remains relevant for its philosophical and psychological depth, and continues to be read as a classic tale on a universal theme.
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Story Synopsis
Years later, the husband Chillingworth came to the town and found out the whole truth, and he operated an horror revenge on Dimmesdale, with hiding his own true name. Yet, as the story going, Hester and Dimmesdale became sympathetic figures, while Chillingworth was a devil at last.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”(from The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XX "The Minister in a Maze")