红字(霍桑)——人物分析.ppt

Hester Prynne  Hester Prynne Crime(犯罪) →Atonement(赎罪) →Renascence(重生) ↓ ↓ Rebel or Compromise About women’s right and freedom Crime——Rebel of puritan She is unconventional(非传统的) and a rebel of puritan. She is active strong-minded and never gives in to the fate. Eg. She encourages her lover to flee with her to Europe but in vain. After she wears the scarlet letter, she receives all the coldness and condemns quietly and never complains. Atonement(赎罪）—Compromise thearchy(神权) Atonement is a basic creed(教义) of protestant and the main method is to help others. Hester won much respect among those townspeople who once condemned her. The public memory of her original sin has been dimmed, and the Letter A which originally stood for ‘Adultery’ changed to Able’. Women’s right and freedom The letter is the symbol of the lover of Prynne. Her experience of going to America and leaving America and finally back to America shows her pursuit of American freedom, the liberation of human nature and returning to her spiritual homeland. Women’s right and freedom Many people think that Hester is a soldier of feminism. “The crowd of Puritans might have seen in this beautiful woman…an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity.(圣母)” Arthur Dimmesdale  Dimmesdale Clues: Sin → struggle → extricate 解脱 Dilemma: Confess or conceal隐藏 About human’s nature and sociality Sin——Rebel of puritan At the beginning, he is an ordained（授予神职） minister, educated, modest, is a devoted servant of God, passionate in his religion and effective in the pulpit讲坛. Sin——Rebel of puritan Dimmesdale is also a gloomy, weak-minded, cowardice（怯懦） and selfish man. eg. When Hester tells him Chillingworth is her husband, he is not brave to face and overcome it, but to sink down on the ground, and burry his face in his hands, he throws his burden upon Hester. “I am powerless to go! ….Lost as my own soul is, I would sti