《红字》写作手法总结.docVIP

写作手法 其实《红字》是一部多重写作手法的结合体（combination）。其成功建立于多重写作手法的水乳交融（in complete harmony），这种交融既极大地丰富了小说的内涵，深化了小说的主题，又激发了读者丰富的想象力。下面就让我们从《红字》的三个主要写作手法来欣赏一下这部小说吧。 一、象征手法 1.The Scarlet Letter is the first symbolic novel in the history of American fiction. And Hamilton Moby, the famous American novel critic considered Hawthorne as the “The founder of the symbol in American literature”. 2.Symbolism originated from Baudelaire, a French poet. The function of symbolism used in the Scarlet Letter is to render?the?atmosphere and to narrate the motivation of this novel. 3.《红字》中的象征运用贯穿故事始末，其中最突出的要数红字“A”了。霍桑巧妙地让红A字在不同的地点以不同的形式多次出现，并赋予它不同的意义。故事开始时，海斯特因犯通奸罪Adultery而受到清教社会的谴责和惩罚，被迫佩戴红色A字以警示众人不要重蹈覆辙。随着故事的发展，海斯特虽负罪在身，却处处积德行善，从而使她胸前的“A”字在一般人的心目中变成了能干able的标志。最后，海斯特以自己的美德赢得了人们的尊重和敬爱，使红A字在人们心中如同修女胸前的十字架，成为天使angel的象征。 除了上述的象征意义外，它还因海斯特精美绝伦的刺绣成为艺术art的标志；因为她忠贞不渝的爱情成为爱Amour的标志；因为她极受压制的天性和真情成为痛苦agony的标志；甚至因为她饱经磨难后的成熟而成了坚韧不拔的女斗士amazon的标志。 4.除了红A字这个典型的象征意象外，《红字》中还有无数象征意象的妙用。 比如,原文：···some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front.?The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World. There are two equivoques. First, “beetle-browed” means the protruding brim of an architecture or glower. Hawthorne used it to imply the ruthless control to people’s mind by Puritanism. Second, rust means “decayed” here. Besides, the New World suggests American Continent，opposite to Europe (the Old World ), which hints decay, criminal and jail are all brought from Britain. （这里两处用了双关语，其中beetle-browed既指监狱建筑物前檐突出，又有颦眉蹙额、怒目而视的意思，霍桑以此暗喻清教对人们思想的冷酷控制；rust原意是铁锈，在这里含有“腐朽”的比喻意义。而且，霍桑以the New World指美洲大陆，与欧洲the Old World相对，暗示腐朽、犯罪、监狱等都是从英国带来的。） 6. The most outstanding symbolism is the way the author describe his characters. Four main characters are all symbolism. Pearl is a naughty and innocent girl with full energy