《红字》矛盾性写作原因探究

Looking into the Ambiguity in the Scarlet Letter

《红字》是美国整个浪漫主义小说中最有声望的经典作品。该小说在女主人公的性格及故事情节的安排上都体现出作家霍桑的男权视角情结,揭示了霍桑追求人类个性解放的浪漫主义思想与清教道德理念的双重矛盾性。其主要原因是延续了几千年根深蒂固的男权思想、霍桑的生活环境、个人成长历程及当时美国的民主运动的背景影响所致。

As one of the American masterpieces, the novel The Scarlet Letter enjoys the great prestige. Not only the author portraits the heroines＇ character, but also he arranges the plots of the story in patriarchy point of view. With Hawthrone＇s romantic ideas about the rights of seeking love and freedom as well as moral regulations of puritanism, the reason of the writings lle in his democratic ideas, his family history and democratic ideas.