商务英语毕业论文开题报告

商务英语毕业论文开题报告

商务英语毕业论文开题报告

题目 Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter

选题依据及研究意义

The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

Hawthorne is a famous romantic novelist of the 19th century, he was adept at using romantic imagination, symbolism, a plenty of moral subjective color and Psychological analysis to explore the inner world of the characters and present the theme. In his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne makes full advantages of those language skills. Most importantly, symbolism is throughout the whole novel and has varieties meaning. So, Hawthorne is regarded as a pioneer of the modern symbolism literary. This thesis briefly focuses on analyzing those symbolisms in The Scarlet Letter.

Symbolism is a kind of speech which depends on the inner link of two things, uses some specific images to present abstract concepts, thoughts and emotions. Symbolism plays a very important role in literary writing. It brings a lofty

significance to the article and makes the article have a

subtle and profound theme.

This thesis concentrates on the application of symbolism

in The Scarlet Letter, which is regarded as the major writing characteristic in the novel. We can find symbolism in the change meaning of “A”, in the symbol of the name of the characters, in the meaning of the scenes. It is no doubt that only by analyzing those symbolism in detail, can we have a overall sense of the theme and get a better understanding of symbolism.

选题的研究现状

The Scarlet Letter is the first novel of Hawthorne, after the book advent in 1850, Hawthorne became fame and recognized as the most important writer at that time. Further, Hawthorne called his “romance” as “psychological romance”, this is enough shows that Hawthorne had paid much attention to psychological description, the reason why he attach much importance to psychological description is that： on one hand, he was affected by the times and religious, confused with the spirit and the soul, he thought since the soul have good and evil, love and hate, and have sins, they are should be

revealed so as to punishing evil and promoting virtue, awarding love and suppressing hate. But on the other hand, people’s psychological depend on people’s behavior, if we

not analyze the character’s psychological we cannot understand the inner of the character, we will inevitably seemed superficial. For readers who are accustomed to reading our traditional techniques to draw characters, they may feel The story rhythm is too slow, but he is the originator of the