赏析美国电影红字

Appreciation of "the scarlet letter"

Abstract:The scarlet letter in 17th century Puritan under colonial rule of New England as the background, drawing on the year in Boston a love tragedy.

Key words:Family background、Writing background、Symbolism

Hawthorne was born in 1804 in new England a buckeen family. Christian Puritan family. After the death of his father, he with his mother moved to Salem public, Salem strong religious atmosphere and fierce sectarian strife and Hawthorne's a religious traditions are of Hawthorne's thought and his later works produced great impact. He has been interested in literature and art since his childhood, and after graduating from college, he served in the customs, and he was influenced by the French utopian socialism, and he formulated the implementation of the utopian socialist scheme on the Brook farm.. Hawthorne at the time of the American social moral on funeral and bourgeois hypocrisy dissatisfaction, but he did not want to fundamentally change the unreasonable social system, only to seek the improvement of social morality, preached God, advocate of moral self perfection.

Almost all of Hawthorne's works were based on the history of the new North American colony of England.. In his works clearly reflects the Hawthorne's complex and contradictory character, on the one hand, he was deeply the influence of Calvinism, believe that the "original sin", on the other hand, he deeply experience to Calvinism fanaticism, bossy and hypocrisy; on the one hand he accepted Emerson's philosophical view, I believe there is a mysterious force in the social reality, on the other hand, he was subject to the control of the religious consciousness, the Calvinist concepts of good and evil, as understanding of social standard, explore the inherent "evil" that "evil" is at the root of social problems.

Symbolism is an artistic technique in the creation of literature, with the help of specific things and images to reveal the concept or meaning of abstract, and thus to induce readers' imagination and association.. "Sananier Hawthorne is good at using the symbolic things to reveal the specific things behind the deep meaning of", is regarded as a pioneer in modern literature of symbolism. In the novel "the scarlet

letter", Hawthorne is the most skillful artistic symbol. He gave the letter "a" and Hess grand four protagonists of a rich variety of deep meaning, this paper focuses on the of throughout the whole works the whole story of the letter "a" are analyzed, so as to enhance the understanding of the works.

As the name of the novel "the scarlet letter" throughout the whole process of the story, with a different symbolic meaning. In the beginning of the novel, the letter "a" is the symbol of the heroine Hester sin. With the development of the story, the letter "a" which eventually became the "capable", "respected", "angel" of the pronoun.