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珀尔的存在本身便是自然人与社会人的矛盾。作为“自然”的产物,爱的结晶,珀尔来到世上,其与生俱来的“自然”品质在作品中得到充分渲染。珀尔与太阳、森林融合为一体,与狼成为朋友,说明珀尔是自然的一部分。正如尼娜•贝姆教授所说,“她具有清教徒所竭力否定的一切自然的品质。”而珀尔的存在作为一种惩罚,使海斯...
Book review of the Scarlet Letter This is the story of a young woman who fall in love with a young man in Colonial America. They find each other irresistible and concieve a child out of wedlock. In the Puritan world of early America this is a heinous crime and for this, Hester Prine ...
书中几乎所有出场的人、物都可以被看作象征。最明显的就是Hester胸前佩戴的金边红字,既是犯罪、邪恶的象征,到后面也代表了Angel,那种圣洁、值得赞扬的人性光辉,比如Hester会接待那些被社会抛弃的人,尽力安慰他们,给他们送去温暖。和这个对应的就是Rev. Dimmesdale胸口的疼痛和他的徽章,同样象征着他所犯下的罪恶,和...
The bookreview of The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letterdescribed a love tragedy taking place in North American colonial period. Heroine named Hester Prynne married to Roger Chillingworth, who devoted his whole life to studying but old and ugly. There was no love between them. Hester Prynne and ...
《红字》 The Scarlet Letter . Nathaniel Hawthorne. 描述的是北美殖民地时期的爱情悲剧,小说侧重描述人物心理,牵动读者内心,我在读的过程中能真切地感受到女主人公Hester背负着来自红字的屈辱,与红字共生的艰难;Rogger Chillingworth被妻子背叛后的仇恨,丑陋和阴暗;Dimmesdale一面是身份神圣的牧师一面是不为人知的女主...
Nathaniel Hawthorne's nineteenth-century romance The Scarlet Letter centers on the simple transgression of adultery and its social consequences. Hawthorne's narrative and storytelling skill, however, are far from simple; the author manages to subtly and cleverly set the tale within a framework of ...
第一篇:英文读后感The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter Not only is The Scarlet Letter is most successful representative work of Horthon, American novelist, but also one of the most prestigious works in the field of American romanticism novels.The story was set Boston in the middle 17th century...
Review of the Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American writer.This novel is his masterpiece. It is set in 17th-century New England under the colonial rule in North America. The book is based on a Boston love tragedy during the years 1642 to 1649. In ...
withhidinghisowntruename.Yet,asthestorygoing,HesterandDimmesdalebecamesympatheticfigures,whileChillingworthwasadevilatlast.BOOKREVIEWANDSUMMARYBOOKREVIEWANDSUMMARYTheScarletLetterrepresentstheheightofHawthorne'sliterarygenius.Itremainsrelevantforitsphilosophicalandpsychologicaldepth,andcontinuestobereadasaclassictaleona...