《红字》意义英文论文.doc

Meaningful Letter A In Different Phases Submitted to English Departmen of Foreign Languages School of Shandong University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement For the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Content Abstract………...…………………………………………………………..…….…..1. 摘要………………………………….……………………………………..….……..1 Introduction…………………..…………………………………..…………………...2 Chapter One Adultery………………………………………….………...………….3 1.1 The origin of scarlet letter A…………………………………………………….4 1.2 Analysis of Puritanism………………………………………………………….4 1.3 Different views about letter A………………………………………………….4 Chapter Two Alone and Alienate………………………….…………..…………….5 1.1 Causes the aspects of loneliness in The Scarlet Letter……………....................6 1.2 From adultery to alone and alienate…………………………………………….6 1.3 The loneliness of three other characters………………………………………...7 Chapter Three Able..…………………………..…………………………………....8 From alone to able……………………………………………………………9. 1.2 A brief sum of this phase………………………………………………………10 Chapter Four Admiration and Angel………………………….…………..………11 1.1 Analysis of Hester＇s ……………………………………………….12 1.2.The final meaning of letter A…………………………………………………12 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………...13 Bibliography……………..……………………………………………………….…………..14 Abstract The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world. In this literary work, red cloth A has profound and varied meaning with the development of the plot of fiction.At the beginning ,Hester Prynne ,the protagonist of this text ，commits adultery and is forced to wear a scarlet letter A on her breast .Obviously ,here A is considered as a symbol of sin of adultery,which is untolerable in a puritan＇s opinion.Beacause what they advocate and glorify is nothing but asceticism、stressed work、thrift、piety and sobriety; After Hester getting out of prison, its primary meaning is substituted by alone and alienate;.Gradually its malicious meaning becomes more and more important,even changes to a beautiful mark embodying able in ling