《红字》小说结局与电影结局的对比

红字小说结局与电影对比结局

Topic: In the namesake movie The Scarlet Letter, Hester reunited with Dimmesdale.They, together with Pearl,moved outside the community and lived happily ever after.Try to compare this end with the original end in the novel.which one do you prefer?why?

From my point of view,comparing this end with the original end in the novel,I like the original one in novel.the reasons are not far to seek .

Firstly, as you know that ‘The Scarlet Letter’ was writen by Nathaniel Hawthorne.it is a classical novel in American literature in the 19th century. The novel displays Puritanism’s great impact on people’s life and thought. and introduces how the communities in the town are deeply influenced by Puritanism. It aims to presenting the harshness and the strict punishment in Puritan society. Comparing the namesake movie’s end with the end of the original novel,it is easy to find that a tragedy was changed into a comedy.As a chinese people,maybe you konw that we prefer to expect the story to have a happy ending rather than see a tragedy,that is a big difference in literary works between china and western countries ,but I want to say that we should respect the reality.now let us make a bold assumption just like the movie shows,Hester Prynne reunited with Arthur Dimmesdale,together with Pearl,moved outside the community and lived happily ever after.that means Roger Chillingworth gave up punishing Dimmesdale who was his wife’s ,aadulterernd

Dimmesdale also had no guilty about what he had done.if the case happened like that.the story would lost its reality. so it can not reflect the features of pitfalls of Puritanism.it will breach the author’s wishes.so I think this change is not very good. I still love the original end of the novel,I prefer to respect original text.

Secondly,I want to analyse why the author Hawthorne gives us a sad ending.In the novel,we konw that at last Hester left Europe and came back to Boston where she had ever suffered humiliation. And she also weared the scarlet letter again.Moreover, she repented her crimes all the time.from those plots,we can draw a conclusion that Hawthorne 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. although Hawthorne aims to lashing out at harshness in Puritan society.he was also influenced by it,because he admited the original sin. In his mind ,he knew that love is a wonderful thing so he arranged two roles,Hester and Dimmesdale ,to fall in love with each other.by this depicting,he wanted to express his great displeasure to Puritanism .but at the same time he added inner sufferings to the figures,too.especially the young pastor ,Dimmesdale,his heart was full of shame, though superfically,he