霍桑的简介以及生平作品 The_Scarlet_Letter

Names
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Pearl Treasure--- the treasure to her mother Comes out of an ugly shell but is beautiful Comes out of an torturing process
Symbol of Characters
Names
(1) Hester Prynne Hastier her marriage is haste her love with Dimmesdale is haste her joy with the priest is haste
Names
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Hester Prynne Prurient (desire for physical love), which is considered as the root of sin and crime. Prune (purify or get rid of), which foreshadows Hester’s self-save from the sin or crime. Pry (probe into), probe into the human nature (sin)
Hester Prynne—exposed sin
Hester’s
sin is revealed.
Symbol of Characters
Arthur Dimmesdale—concealed sin His humanity is been constrained by the Puritan society. His sin is not adultery but not having the courage to admit that he had adulterated.
“A”
stands for the crime adultery. To the puritans it is a symbol of just punishment to Hester, a device of unjust humiliation to Dimmesdale, a piercing reminder of his guilt to Chillingworth, a spur to the quest of revenge to Pearl, a bright and mysterious curiosity
The
symbolic meanings of the scarlet Letter A The symbolic meanings of names of characters The symbolic meanings of the characters The symbolic meanings of the scenes
Pearl——the human symbol of the sin The human symbol of the sin of
Symbol of Characters
adultery in the fact that she leads Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale to accept and admit to their sin. She is also the living symbol of the scarlet letter. Hawthorne: “the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life.” The cloth shows the sin so does Pearl. She is a far stronger device for punishing Hester than the piece of cloth on Hester’s chest.
The letter “A”
The letter “A”
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“A” varies its meaning as the development of the story, adultery--ability---angel.
Badge
of shame Sinner into sister of mercy Symbol of goodness
Jolly Roger
(3) Roger Chillingworth
I
shall seek this man, as I have sought truth in books; as I have sought gold in alchemy. There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him. I shall see him tremble. I shall feel myself shudder, suddenly and unawares. Sooner or later, he must needs be mine!
Symbolism
The names of characters
Names
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Hester Prynne Hestia the Virgin Goddess of the hearth, of the right ordering of domesticity and the family in Greek mythology symbol of chastity and virtue showing the author’s praise to Hester’s beauty and saint, Goddess-like beauty.

Symbolism
Nathaniel
Hawthorne is a master of symbolism The Scarlet Letter : the first symbolic novel to be written in the United States.
Symbolism
Nathaniel Hawthorne 纳撒尼尔· 霍桑 (1804-1864)
His
life His literary Achievements Textual Analysis
Major Works
Short stories Twice-Told Tales 《故事重述》 1837 Mosses from an old Manse 《古 宅青苔》 1846 “Young Goodman Brown” “ “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Symbol of Characters
Arthur Dimmesdale also symbolizes the Puritan society. He is chosen to give a moving speech to Hester in the public of scaffold because the people think he is perfect and nearest person to God. But ironically he is the other sinner and sufferer. Puritan views themselves as “chosen people”, and persecutes “Pagans” who are considered sinners in the Puritan society. Hawthorne views that people are all sinners, the Puritan are no exception. The deeper Puritans conceal their sin, the further they are from God. Only do they admit and atone for their sin, they could be forgiven and been redeemed by God.
Symbol of Characters Roger Chillingworth—true sin/evil
He
is a merciless avenger. He lives in the side of Dimmesdale everyday and scarifies his own life to punish the young minister. The real sinner of morality in this novel. But he is judged no blemish according to Puritan’s creed.
Names
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(2) Arthur Dimmesdale The initials AD are the beginning of “Adultery”; “Dim” means lack of light; “dale” means valley He commits adultery but dares cowardly to confess his sin or crime, and has to conceal it in the shadow and suffer it interiorly. It symbolizes the minister’s dim-interior world of his love and the shadow of sin and guilty of his mind.
Names
(3) Roger Chillingworth
“Chilling”
means chilly. He is a man deficient in human warmth. He is a cruel and cold-blooded man. “Worth” tells us Roger’s act is, to some extend, worth/valuable----the author’s contradictory psychology to Puritanism.
Major Works
Novels The Scarlet Letter 《红字》 1850 The House of the Seven Gables 《 带有七个 尖角阁的房子》1851 Blithedale Romance 《福谷传奇》 1852 The Marble Faun 《玉石雕像》 1860
Names
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Roger Chillingworth
Rogue
(hoodlum, scoundrel, bully) Jolly Roger Pirates’ nature is to explore treasures and revenge Chillingworth’s act to his wife and to Dimmesdale
Setting: The Scarlet Letter
Place:
Puritan Boston Time: the mid-17th century The central scaffold scenes are set in the market place. Like other Puritan settlements in New England, the local and colonial governments were theocracies. A theocracy is a government where the civil laws are based (in whole or in part) on religious laws; civil leaders in theocracies are probably also important religious leaders