重新解读不同文化下的潘金莲和海丝特·白兰

Interpretation of Pan Jinlian and Hester Prynne:A Cultural Prospective

古典小说《金瓶梅》中的潘金莲自古以来一直是众矢之的,千古骂名陪她走过几个世纪。而同样遭遇但不同命运的另一位女性——美国作家霍桑在《红字》中的海丝特·白兰则一直被认为是温柔善良、自强不息的女性代表,海丝特最终得到了人们的理解。文章通过对男权视角下女性形象的分析和对以上两个女性命运的比较,试图寻找出中西方女性悲剧命运的共同性成因。

In Chinese classic novel The Golden Lotus,Pan Jinlian is always the target of public criticism. Bad reputation is imposed on her forever.But another female image Hester Prynne,created by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne in Scarlet Letter,who suffers the same but with different destiny,is regarded as the representative of kind and tough woman and finally getting people＇s forgiveness.This thesis tries to analyze and compare the two images under the angle of male chauvinism and find the common reason of these tragic women in eastern and western literature.