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h * My introduction of The Scarlet Letter --Phoebe Basic framework 1.Background information 2.Author 3.Main idea 4.Characters 5.Different themes 6.Figures of speech 7.My opinions The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants居民 of Boston波士顿 ; all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand. chapter2 In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators; as befitted适合于 a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical同一的, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and the severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders at the scaffold . 无论属于哪种情况，围观者总是摆出分毫不爽的庄严姿态；这倒十分符合早期移民的身分，因为他们将宗教和法律视同一体，二者在他们的品性中融溶为一，凡涉及公共纪律的条款，不管是最轻微的还是最严重的都同样今他们肃然起敬和望而生畏，确实，一个站在刑台上的罪人能够从这样一些旁观看身上谋得的同情是少而又少、冷而又冷的。 Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most talented American novelists and story writers of the Romantic Age. He was the first American romantic writer who initiated开创 a new tradition in American literature which is called Symbolic Romance. The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne （1804~1864） in the middle of the nineteenth century. The novel is about a tragedy love story happened on New England. The heroine Hester Prynne married the old Roger Chillingworth who was a physician. There was no love between them .Hester was trapped in loneliness ,so she fell in love with the pastor Mr.dimmesdale and gave birth to their daughter Pearl. She was punished in public and worn the scarlet let