霍桑 红字 scarlet letter 英文 情节介绍 人物介绍 书
红字(霍桑)——人物分析
changed to 'Able‟.
Women‟s right and freedom
The letter is the symbol of the lover of Prynne. Her experience of going to America and leaving America and finally back to America shows her pursuit of American freedom, the liberation of human nature and returning to her spiritual homeland.
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She seems to live in a colorful world. She always jumps around, putting on the beautiful clothes made by her mother. She is a little bit like a wild child. ‘The evil which she inherited from her mother must be great indeed, if a noble woman do not grow out of this elfish child.‘
Atonement(赎罪）—Compromise thearchy(神权)
• Atonement is a basic creed(教义) of protestant and the main method is to help others. • Hester won much respect among those townspeople who once condemned her. • The public memory of her original sin has been dimmed, and the Letter A which originally stood for „Adultery‟
红字英文介绍The-Scarlet-LetterPPT课件
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Introduction
• 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 Chillinggworth, 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. Years later, the husband Chillinggworth 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 Chillinggworth was a devil at last.
大学英美文学《霍桑》英文介绍
The Symbolic Meaning of the Four Characters’ Name
Hester: Hestier, Hastier, women’s name-Star Arthur Dimmesdale: →AD →Adultery; Dim+Stale=bad luck Roger Chillingworth: cool / chilly; Roger ≈rogue（无赖）;
•He rejected the Transcendentalists’ transparent optimism about the potentialities of human nature. •Sin and evil can be passed from generation to generation, evil educated. •He had a negative attitude toward science.
The Plot
Seven years later, pearls grew into a beautiful girl, and Hester again won the respect of others. Chillingworth also found that adulterer, the minister, Dimmesdale who was constantly subjected to mental torture.
•Cruel •Devious
Chillingworth
The Maker of the Scarlet Letter
The main characters discussion
Pearl
•Beautiful •Pure
The Scarlet Letter内容总结及分析
红字（美国作家霍桑创作小说）19世纪美国浪漫主义作家霍桑的长篇小说。
发表于1850年。
《红字》讲述了发生在北美殖民时期的恋爱悲剧。
女主人公海丝特·白兰嫁给了医生奇灵渥斯，他们之间却没有爱情。
在孤独中白兰与牧师丁梅斯代尔相恋并生下女儿珠儿。
白兰被当众惩罚，戴上标志“通奸”的红色A字示众。
然而白兰坚贞不屈，拒不说出孩子的父亲。
小说惯用象征手法，人物、情节和语言都颇具主观想象色彩，在描写中又常把人的心理活动和直觉放在首位。
因此，它不仅是美国浪漫主义小说的代表作，同时也被称作是美国心理分析小说的开创篇。
The Scarlet Letter Adultery Nathaniel Hawthorne（作者）nameless narrator（叙述方式）纳撒尼尔·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne，1804—1864），是美国心理分析小说的开创者，也是美国文学史上首位写作短篇小说的作家，被称为美国19世纪最伟大的浪漫主义小说家。
Hester Prynne（海丝特·白兰）, is the novel's heroine.Dimmesdale(丁梅斯代尔) Chillingworth（齐灵渥斯）Pearl（珠儿）内容简介在十七世纪中叶的一个夏天，一天早晨，一大群波士顿居民拥挤在监狱前的草地上，庄严地目不转睛地盯着牢房门。
随着牢门的打开，一个怀抱三个月大的婴儿的年轻女人缓缓地走到了人群前，在她的胸前佩带着一个鲜红的A 字，耀眼的红字吸引了所有人的目光，她就是海丝特·白兰太太。
她由于被认为犯了通奸罪而受到审判，并要永远佩带那个代表着耻辱的红字。
在绞刑台上，面对着总督贝灵汉和约翰·威尔逊牧师的威逼利诱，她以极大的毅力忍受着屈辱，忍受着人性所能承担的一切，而站在她身旁的年轻牧师丁梅斯代尔却流露出一种忧心忡忡、惊慌失措的神色，恰似一个人在人生道路上偏离了方向，感到非常迷惘，只有把自己封闭起来才觉得安然。
霍桑红字英语小论文
The scarlet rose blossom on the humanity soil The Scarlet Letter(,1850) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, tells the tragic love story between Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale, which takes place in the 17th century Puritan Boston. Nathaniel Hawthorne is a world-known American romantic novelist whose works often use symbolism and often have moral messages and psychological complexity. Like many of his other compositions, The Scarlet Letter centers on the inherent sin and evil of humanity. Through narrating the character’s fortune, it reveals the cruelty of the social laws, the deceptive aspect of the religion and the hypocrisy of the moral in the 19th when American capitalism enjoyed a boom.The story unfolds at the point view of Hester. The heroine Hester Prynne married Dr. Chillingworth, but there was no love between them and Chillingworth disappeared for years. During this time, lonely Hester committed adultery with a local Minster Dimmesdale and gave birth to their daughter Pearl. Hester was punished in public, being forced to wear a scarlet letter of ‘A’ which referred to adultery. Despite this, Hester refused to give her lover’s name away to protect him. At the same time, the husband Chillingworth came back and swore to revenge for the shame. Hiding his own true name, he found out the truth step by step. In this course, he tormented Dimmesdale mentally, leading to Dimmesdale’s admission on the identity of Pearl’s father, and also his death. Chillingworth himself passed away soon after because he possessed nothing except hatred. Differing from those male characters, although Hester was treated unfairly, she overcome discriminations and won the citizens’ respect for her tenacity, kindness and diligence, transporting the meaning of the world into “able” and “angle”. At last, Hester chose to be buried with her lover Dimmesdale, leaving “Black land, a red A word” on the tombstone.”Hawthorne is absolutely a master in Formalism, including repeated images, contrastive colors, and sets of words.All of them take shape implied meanings, which make the passage profound and veiled.Among all of the images, the letter A is the most significant one. The meaning of the letter shifts with the time going by. In chapter1 and chapter 2, it represents a kindof punishment of the religious society for disgrace. In the middle part of the novel, A becomes the symbol of Hester’s virtues: “There glimmered the embroidered letter, with comfort in its unearthly ray. Elsewhere the token of sin, it was the taper of the sick-chamber” “They said that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a women’s strength.”(p141 chapter 13)At the latter stage, the token of A goes further. It is promoted to a goddess figure. The emphasis is no long on her capacity, but on her elevated spirits. Alongside the letter A, there are many images used in the composition. For example, at the beginning, it was Hester who walks up the guillotine to accept the worldly judgment, while at last it is Dimmesdale who walks up the guillotine to acknowledge his guilty and accept spiritual judgment. The guillotine establishes her ignominy first and proclaims his salvation lastly.In the ending sentence: “Black land, a red A word” on the tombstone.” The colors of black and white form pair of contrast and the two colors run through the composition. “ such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison. But no one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush. “(p39-40) The Great Whore in Revelation is dressed in scarlet, riding a scarlet beast. The color scarlet, in the Bible also symbolizes guilt. The prison is black, which builds a gloomy atmosphere and indicates the injustice of the prison. The color of Dimmesdale’s cape is black too, under which is the scarlet letter, his biggest secret. The concealment of the guilt (black and scarlet) creates huge pain.Repetitive words bring about the intense feeling of oppression, adding to words expressive force. "He will be known" emerges many times, from citizens or from Chiligworth, easily being associating with a hidden snake which lives on the dark secrets.What’s more, the book also reflects author’s complex attitude and consideration on religion. Nathaniel Hawthorne is born in a Puritanism family, leading to his early research of Puritanism. However, he is not a completely Puritan. He keeps his doubt and confusion towards this religion.In his age, the Puritanism went to the extremes. They persecuted people who believed in different religions and oppressed the humanity under the banner of God. From the Hester’s rebellion against the Puritan dogmas and the sufferings Dimmesdale undergone, we can infer his strong criticism, but meanwhile he trusts religious superstitions, not getting rid of such concepts like “origin sin”, “salvation” “determined fate”. He sings for the power of the religion to purify people. For example, Hester, this brave tenacious woman, sometimes also feels afraid, upset, worried. She turns to God for spiritual relive more than one time. The belief warns her to keep the goodness.Nathaniel Hawthorne uses multiple literal decorations to reveal the psychological state of the characters, to mold their personalities, to show their virtues and vices. What is more valuable is his exploration about humanity. The Scarlet Letter is confession and salvation of guilty people with pure soul, those who blossom the beautiful rose in their life.The scarlet rose blossom on the humanity soil辛宇160144179电子信息。
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Theme of the work: Sin
The experience of Hester and Dimmesdale recalls the story of Adam and Eve because, in both cases, sin results in expulsion and suffering. But it also results in knowledge—specifically, in knowledge of what it means to be immoral. For Hester, the scarlet letter functions as "her passport into regions where other women dared not tread", leading her to "speculate" about her society and herself more "boldly" than anyone else in New England. As for Dimmesdale, the "cheating minister", his sin gives him "sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind, so that his chest vibrate[s] in unison with theirs." His eloquent and powerful sermons derive from this sense of empathy.The narrative of the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is quite in keeping with the oldest and most fully authorized principles in Christian thought. His "Fall" is a descent from apparent grace to his own damnation; he appears to begin in purity but he ends in corruption. The subtlety is that the minister's belief is his own cheating, convincing himself at every stage of his spiritual pilgrimage that he is saved.
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C7&C8:the government‘s hall & the elf-child
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Dimmesdale appeared to be wasting away and suffered from mysterious heart trouble. Chillingworth attached himself to Dimmesdale and lived with him so that he could provide his patient with round-the-clock care .Roger detected the minister as the lover and kept haunting his mind and soul.
C12:The minister’s vigil One night, Hester and Pearl encountered Dimmesdale at the town scaffold, trying to punish himself for his sins. Hester and Pearl joined him, and the three link hands. Dimmesdale refused Pearl’s request that he acknowledged her publicly the next day.
His four major romances or novels
written between 1850 and 1860
The Scarlet Letter《红字》 (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables 《七个尖角阁的房子》 (1851)
The Scarlet Letter内容总结及分析
红字（美国作家霍桑创作小说）19世纪美国浪漫主义作家霍桑的长篇小说。
发表于1850年。
《红字》讲述了发生在北美殖民时期的恋爱悲剧。
女主人公海丝特·白兰嫁给了医生奇灵渥斯，他们之间却没有爱情。
在孤独中白兰与牧师丁梅斯代尔相恋并生下女儿珠儿。
白兰被当众惩罚，戴上标志“通奸”的红色A字示众。
然而白兰坚贞不屈，拒不说出孩子的父亲。
小说惯用象征手法，人物、情节和语言都颇具主观想象色彩，在描写中又常把人的心理活动和直觉放在首位。
因此，它不仅是美国浪漫主义小说的代表作，同时也被称作是美国心理分析小说的开创篇。
The Scarlet Letter Adultery Nathaniel Hawthorne（作者）nameless narrator（叙述方式）纳撒尼尔·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne，1804—1864），是美国心理分析小说的开创者，也是美国文学史上首位写作短篇小说的作家，被称为美国19世纪最伟大的浪漫主义小说家。
Hester Prynne（海丝特·白兰）, is the novel's heroine.Dimmesdale(丁梅斯代尔) Chillingworth（齐灵渥斯）Pearl（珠儿）内容简介在十七世纪中叶的一个夏天，一天早晨，一大群波士顿居民拥挤在监狱前的草地上，庄严地目不转睛地盯着牢房门。
随着牢门的打开，一个怀抱三个月大的婴儿的年轻女人缓缓地走到了人群前，在她的胸前佩带着一个鲜红的A 字，耀眼的红字吸引了所有人的目光，她就是海丝特·白兰太太。
她由于被认为犯了通奸罪而受到审判，并要永远佩带那个代表着耻辱的红字。
在绞刑台上，面对着总督贝灵汉和约翰·威尔逊牧师的威逼利诱，她以极大的毅力忍受着屈辱，忍受着人性所能承担的一切，而站在她身旁的年轻牧师丁梅斯代尔却流露出一种忧心忡忡、惊慌失措的神色，恰似一个人在人生道路上偏离了方向，感到非常迷惘，只有把自己封闭起来才觉得安然。
红字The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet LetterIn the novel The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne’s character Arthur Dimmesdale descends from his priestly celibacy into immorality through his elicit love affair with Hester Prynne. Hester refuses to give the name of her lover up and through her secrecy the descent of Dimmesadele begins. Although in the book Hester is the only one convicted of this crime, due to her inability to hide her pregnancy; Dimmesdale constantly condemns himself. Throughout the years after the discovery of Hester’s affair, the priest continues to spiral downwards into ultimate guilt-filled depression. He continues to grow ill and with the help of Roger Chillingworth continues to be haunted by his sin. His own lashings only contribute to this deterioration. A victim of love and human weakness, the priest loses his life to shame. Dimmesdale’s repentance and suffering make him the ultimate tragic hero. His actions condemned by society and his faith, Dimmesdale tries to receive an equal punishment, one as severe as his lovers, through his own remedies. Yet his efforts prove worthless and even destructive. His only door out is confession.In the named movie The Scarlet Letter, Hester reunited with Dimmesdale. They together with Pearl moved outside the community and lived happily ever after. Comparing with this end with the original end in the novel, I prefer the original end. Because sometimes the tragedy more impressive. Dimmesdale’s confession at the end of the novel, on thescaffolding, his grief is released and his supreme satisfaction allows the ultimate release; death. Dimmesdale’s affair was truly an act of love, yet the strict Puritan society in which he lives in and the rules in which he lives by did not allow him to openly express his sin without fear of total reprimand and disapproval of the people. His hidden sin presses upon his back, and the weight of his pain is too much. In facing his responsibility and confessing, it is easy to see Dimmesadle as the tragic hero of Hawthorne’s Th e Scarlet letter.Destroyed by Chillingworth lie and guilt, Dimmesdale dies in Hester's arms, and some see a scarlet A on his chest. Destroyed by his single-minded quest for vengeance, Chillingworth bequeaths his vast estates to Pearl, who leaves America to live abroad, depriving America of all she represents. The book ends with an allusion to Andrew Marvell's poem "The Unfortunate Lover," in which the lover lives on in story. So does Hester Prynne, perhaps the first fully realized female character in American fiction, whose meanings continue to attract new readers.Although criticism of The Scarlet Letter for a long time took Dimmesdale as the central character, it has more recently knowledge 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 acceptHester'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 herself-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.As its title suggests, the book is about labeling, about the Puritan and later the American desire to eliminate ambiguity, to get the meanings right. The tale shows that even so simple a label as the first letter of the alphabet is full of burgeoning meanings dependent upon changing contexts. After Hester's competence and usefulness to the community become evident, some think the letter stands for "able." When an A appears in the sky at Governor John Winthrop's death, they think it stands for "angel." Since historical Puritans convicted of adultery were made towear the letters AD on their sleeves, critics have noted that these are Dimmesdale's initials and concluded that the A also represents Arthur. Anne Hutchinson of the Antinomian Controversy is explicitly mentioned in the text, so the letter also represents Anne and Antinomian. Readers may well conclude that the A can mean almost anything, even America, where we still struggle to rein scribe the labels that others put on us.Bruce Granger states that “ev en though Arthur Dimmesdale does not move down center until late in the action, The Scarlet Letter is finally his story and, what is more important, that he is a tragic hero… Hawthorne's allegorical romance centers on a good man's struggle with and eventual victory over the guilt he experiences after committing lechery.” (Granger, 1). In the end this holly sinner steps out from behind his lies and deception, even against the grain of the Puritan society, in order to actually become the pious person he had fooled everyone into believing he was. Trapped in society’s grasp, filled with remorse and tossed about by the harsh sea of sin; Dinnesdale pushes through with honesty and became the tragic hero of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.。
TheScarletLetter内容总结及分析
TheScarletLetter内容总结及分析红字（美国作家霍桑创作小说）19世纪美国浪漫主义作家霍桑的长篇小说。
发表于1850年。
《红字》讲述了发生在北美殖民时期的恋爱悲剧。
女主人公海丝特·白兰嫁给了医生奇灵渥斯，他们之间却没有爱情。
在孤独中白兰与牧师丁梅斯代尔相恋并生下女儿珠儿。
白兰被当众惩罚，戴上标志“通奸”的红色A字示众。
然而白兰坚贞不屈，拒不说出孩子的父亲。
小说惯用象征手法，人物、情节和语言都颇具主观想象色彩，在描写中又常把人的心理活动和直觉放在首位。
因此，它不仅是美国浪漫主义小说的代表作，同时也被称作是美国心理分析小说的开创篇。
The Scarlet Letter Adultery Nathaniel Hawthorne（作者）nameless narrator（叙述方式）纳撒尼尔·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne，1804—1864），是美国心理分析小说的开创者，也是美国文学史上首位写作短篇小说的作家，被称为美国19世纪最伟大的浪漫主义小说家。
Hester Prynne （海丝特·白兰）, is the novel's heroine.Dimmesdale(丁梅斯代尔) Chillingworth（齐灵渥斯）Pearl（珠儿）内容简介在十七世纪中叶的一个夏天，一天早晨，一大群波士顿居民拥挤在监狱前的草地上，庄严地目不转睛地盯着牢房门。
随着牢门的打开，一个怀抱三个月大的婴儿的年轻女人缓缓地走到了人群前，在她的胸前佩带着一个鲜红的A 字，耀眼的红字吸引了所有人的目光，她就是海丝特·白兰太太。
她由于被认为犯了通奸罪而受到审判，并要永远佩带那个代表着耻辱的红字。
在绞刑台上，面对着总督贝灵汉和约翰·威尔逊牧师的威逼利诱，她以极大的毅力忍受着屈辱，忍受着人性所能承担的一切，而站在她身旁的年轻牧师丁梅斯代尔却流露出一种忧心忡忡、惊慌失措的神色，恰似一个人在人生道路上偏离了方向，感到非常迷惘，只有把自己封闭起来才觉得安然。
thescarletletter内容概括
《The Scarlet Letter》内容概括《The Scarlet Letter》是美国作家 Nathaniel Hawthorne 于 1850 年发表的一部历史小说，讲述了 17 世纪新英格兰地区的一些事件和当时的社会环境。
本文将简要概括该小说的主要内容。
下面是本店铺为大家精心编写的5篇《《The Scarlet Letter》内容概括》，供大家借鉴与参考，希望对大家有所帮助。
《《The Scarlet Letter》内容概括》篇1《The Scarlet Letter》以女主角 Hester Prynne 被法庭判处佩戴带有红字“A”的罪犯身份为开端。
小说发生在 17 世纪的新英格兰，当时社会风气极为保守，对于道德败坏的行为十分不容忍。
Hester 因通奸罪被判刑，并在刑满后被释放，但她必须一直佩戴这个代表罪犯的红字“A”。
小说的主人公 Arthur Dimmesdale 是一位年轻的牧师，他在公众眼中是一位道德高尚的人，但实际上，他是 Hester 的情人，也是她孩子的父亲。
虽然他深爱着 Hester，但他担心自己的名誉和地位受损，因此不敢承认自己的罪行。
另一个主要角色是 Pearl，她是 Hester 和 Arthur 的女儿。
Pearl 是一个聪明、顽皮、充满活力的女孩，但她的母亲的罪行和社会对她的歧视让她在成长过程中面临着许多困难。
小说讲述了 Hester 在社会的压力下如何坚强地生活，并在帮助他人的过程中找到自我救赎。
同时，小说也揭示了当时社会的虚伪和道德观念的矛盾。
最终，Hester 通过自己的善良和勇气赢得了人们的尊重，而 Arthur 则因无法面对自己的罪行而自杀。
《《The Scarlet Letter》内容概括》篇2《The Scarlet Letter》是美国作家 Nathaniel Hawthorne 于1850 年出版的一部历史小说。
该小说讲述了发生在 17 世纪晚期新英格兰殖民地的一个故事，主要围绕一个名叫 Hester Prynne 的女性展开，她因通奸罪被判处戴上带有红字“A”的罪犯标志，并在社会上受到排斥。
The Scarlet Letter-红字
Hawthorne's
works belong to romanticism , cautionary tales that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity. Many of his works are inspired by Puritan New England, combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on surrealism. His depictions of the past are a version of historical fiction used only as a vehicle to express common themes of ancestral sin, guilt and retribution.
Introduction of the Background
Romanticism in History
Romanticism was a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalisation of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education and natural history.
霍桑 红字 scarlet letter 英文 情节介绍 人物介绍 书籍摘要
• 1. Brief Introduction of the Plot
• 2.The Scarlett Letter and Puritanism • 3. The writing skills in Scarlett Letter.
2.The Scarlett Letter and Puritanism
Writhing skills
• Symbol
• All these giant trees and boulders of granite seemed intent on making a mystery of the course of this small brook; fearing, perhaps, that, with its never-ceasing loquacity, it should whisper tales out of the heart of the old forest whence it flowed, or mirror its revelations on the smooth surface of a pool.
• It bore a device, a herald’s wording of which may serve for a motto and brief description of our now concluded legend; so sombre is it, and relieved only by one ever-glowing point of light gloomier than the shadow • ‘ON A FIELD, SABLE, THE LETTER A, GULES"
美国文学红字英文赏析 The+Scarlet+Letter
Hawthorne Biography
Early Writing Career Hawthorne's short stories came slowly but
steadily into critical favor, and the best of them have become American classics. By his own account it was Hawthorne's love of his Salem neighbor Sophia Peabody that brought him from his "haunted chamber" out into the world. Hawthorne and Sophia, whom he finally married in 1842, resorted not to Brook Farm but to the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, where they spent several years of happiness in as much quiet living as they could achieve.
Writing Novels
Facing the world once more, Hawthorne obtained in 1846 the position of surveyor (one who maps out new lands) in the Salem Custom House, but was relieved of this position in 1848 because of his political ties.
红字
Chillingworth
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Characters
• Young
人物性格分析
• Beautiful
海丝特·白兰是有形的红字。由于她的含辛茹苦、助人为
• 乐等种两美德，使她胸前的红字不再是“奸” Brave (adultery)的耻
辱徽记，面成了“能干”(Able)，甚至“值得尊敬”(Admiral)
“罪孽”，但他的这种愿望过多地同“赎罪”‘内省”等宗教意
识纠缠在一起，因此行动上也只能处处受其局绊。他既要受内心
• Minister（牧师）
• a devoted servant of God
• gloomy, weak-minded , selfish 的谴责，又要防外界的窥测；他明明有自己的爱，却偏偏要把这 • suffering from experience of physical 种感情视同邪魔。 and spiritual disintegration
society, a prison.
• 像 一切与罪恶二字息息相关的事物一样，这座监狱似乎从来不曾经历过自己的青春韶 华。从这座丑陋的大房子门前，一直到轧着车辙的街道，有一片草地，上面过于繁茂
地簇生着牛蒡、茨藜、毒莠等等这类不堪入目的杂草，这些杂草显然在这块土地上找
到了共通的东西，因为正是在这块土地上早早便诞生了文明社会的那栋黑花——监狱 。
印象深刻的话语
1. 当一个微小的火种慢慢地在心里闪烁， 最终蔓延成为燃烧的火焰；当一个并不清 晰的潜意识渐渐地野蛮生长，成为了明确 的意志；我想，就是作出改变的时候了。
简介
《红字》讲述了17世纪清教殖民统治下，在波士顿 发生的一个恋爱悲剧。女主人公海丝特·白兰嫁给了 医生奇灵渥斯，奇灵渥斯遭遇海难，白兰以为他在 海难中已经遭遇不幸。在孤独中白兰与牧师丁梅斯 代尔相恋并生下女儿珠儿。白兰被当众惩罚，戴上 标志“通奸”的红色A字示众。然而海丝特坚贞不屈 ，拒不说出孩子的父亲。后来丈夫齐灵渥斯却平安 地回到了新英格兰，并隐瞒了自己的身份。当他查 出白兰的情人是丁梅斯代尔，齐灵渥斯便开始折磨
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.