霍桑 红字 scarlet letter 英文 情节介绍 人物介绍 书籍摘要

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• The wide circumference of an elaborate ruff, beneath his grey beard, in the antiquated fashion of King James’s reign, caused his head to look not a little like that of John the Baptist in a charger. • (Chapter 8)
Agenda
• 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
• 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"
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• In that old day the English settler on these rude shores—having left king, nobles, and all degrees of awful rank behind, while still the faculty and necessity of reverence was strong in him—bestowed it on the white hair and venerable brow of age—on long-tried integrity—on solid wisdom and sadcoloured experience—on endowments of that grave and weighty order which gave the idea of permanence, and comes under the general definition of respectability. (Chapter 22)
Negative
• Hester Prynne
• The fighter
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Hester Prynne imbibed this spirit. She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatised by the scarlet letter.
• Rejection----Solitude----Think Beyond the Puritanism sphere
• Arthur Dimmesdale
• Victim
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In Mr. Dimmesdale’s secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge. Oftentimes, this Protestant and Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders, laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh.
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Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister’s miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence:—‘Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!’
• What the main attitude Hawthorne held in Scarlett Letter? • Mixed Hale Waihona Puke Baiduut Contradictory
POSITIVE
• Every one carries the stain of SIN
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They were her countrywomen: and the beef and ale of their native land, with a moral diet not a whit more refined, entered largely into their composition. The bright morning sun, therefore, shone on broad shoulders and well-developed busts, and on round and ruddy cheeks, that had ripened in the far-off island, and had hardly yet grown paler or thinner in the atmosphere of New England. (Chapter 2 )
Closure
• Many a church member saw I, walking behind the music, that has danced in the same measure with me, when Somebody was fiddler, and, it might be, an Indian powwow or a Lapland wizard changing hands with us! That is but a trifle, when a woman knows the world. (Chapter22)
• With these words she advanced to the margin of the brook, took up the scarlet letter, and fastened it again into her bosom. Hopefully, but a moment ago, as Hester had spoken of drowning it in the deep sea, there was a sense of inevitable doom upon her as she thus received back this deadly symbol from the hand of fate.
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.