欧美小 说赏析教学资料：Romanticism and The Scarlet Letter.pptVIP

然而在这一片灰黑之中 却傲然挺立着一丛玫魂 “盛开着宝石船的花朵” 象征着人类的道德……接下来 便出观了女主人公海丝特·白兰 怀抱初生的珠儿 “她焕发的美丽 竟把笼尽着她的不幸和耻辱凝成一轮光环” 令人联想起“圣母的形象”。这样一段胡胡如生的文字 不但为我们展现了人物活动的舞台背景 而且启发读者去思考作品的主题。  The Leech and His Patient (Chapter X) Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with the world , a pure and upright man. He had begun an investigation, as he imagined, with the severe and equal integrity of a judge, desirous only of truth… But, as he proceeded, a terrible fascination, a kind of fierce, though still calm, necessity seized the old man within its gripe. He now dug into the poor clergyman’s heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton 寺庙里的杂役delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man’s bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption. . “So …the man of skill, the kind and friendly physician—strove to go deep into his patient’s bosom, delving（挖掘）among his principles(信念), prying into（窥探）his recollections (回忆), and probing everything with a cautious touch, like a treasure-seeker in a dark cavern(洞穴).” A? Able/ Alone? Angel Adultery Alone/Able Angel The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 1 The Prison Door A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with this rule it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably