分析霍桑《红字》中的主要人物.docVIP

【标题】分析霍桑《红字》中的主要人物 【作者】肖 婷 【关键词】《红字》；主题；人物；清教徒；象征手法 【指导老师】张亚军 项谊 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionWith the publication of The Scarlet Letter in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne became one of the greatest writers at that time and built his reputation as a major American author. Hawthorne was born on the fourth of July, 1804 in Salem. Massachusetts. His family was with puritan belief for generations since colonial times. Hawthorne’s father was a sea captain, who died in an accident and left his mother and him behind to struggle to live for themselves. Young Hawthorne was quite aware of the misdeeds of his puritan ancestors, and this awareness made him believe that evil was at the core of human life. He was a pious Christian, and was deeply influenced by the theology. Hawthorne’s works mostly described the people’s mental attitude, thought contradiction and life tragedy under Calvinistic pressure by the cruel clericalism domination in the colonial period. To some extent, Hawthorne wrote some of his books, such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gambles to try to make up for the sin of his ancestors.The story began in seventeenth-century Boston, which was under Puritan command. A young woman, named Hester Prynne, who was from Great Britain. While her husband, Chillingworth was a scholar and went to the New World, but his ship was lost at sea. There was no news about him and nobody knew whether he was alive or not for two years. Hester had a love affair with a young minister Arthur Dimmesdale, who had a high position among ministers and was highly respected among his people in town. Hester was found guilty of having been adulterous and was sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A to show her shame. Hester’s husband, who was then practicing medicine, swear that he would devote the rest of his life to discovery the identity of the man who had dishonored him. At the same time, Dimmesdale was much perturbed by thoughts of conscience and guilt, but when he expressed