霍桑红字英语小论文.docx

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霍桑红字英语小论文

The scarlet rose blossom on the humanity soilThe Scarlet Letter(,1850) written by Nathaniel Hawthorne,tells the tragic love story between Hester Prynne andDimmesdale, which takes place in the17th century Puritan Boston. Nathaniel Hawthorne is a world-known American romantic novelistwhose works often use symbolism and often have moral messages and psychological complexity.Like many of his other compositions, The Scarlet Letter centers on the inherent sin and evil of humanity. Through narrating the character’s fortune, it reveals the cruelty of the social laws, the deceptive aspect of the religion and the hypocrisy of the moral in the 19th when American capitalism enjoyed a boom.The story unfolds at the point view ofHester. The heroine Hester Prynne married Dr.Chillingworth, but there was no love between them andChillingworth disappeared for years. During this time, lonely Hester committed adultery with a local MinsterDimmesdale and gave birth to their daughter Pearl. Hester was punished in public, being forced to wear a scarlet letter of ‘A’ which referred to adultery. Despite this, Hester refused to give her lover’s name away to protect him. At the same time, the husband Chillingworth came back and swore to revenge for the shame. Hiding his own true name, he found out the truth step by step. In this course, he tormentedDimmesdale mentally,leading to Dimmesdale’sadmission on the identity of Pearl’s father, and also his death.Chillingworth himself passed away soon after because he possessed nothing except hatred. Differing from those male characters, although Hester was treated unfairly, she overcome discriminations and won the citizens’ respect for her tenacity, kindness and diligence, transporting the meaning of the world into “able” and “angle”. At last, Hester chose to be buried with her lover Dimmesdale, leaving “Black land, a red A word” on the tombstone.”Hawthorne is absolutely a master in Formalism, including repeated images, contrastive colors,and sets of wor

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