The Scarlet Letter is the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorne who was a great American novelist. After being , the book brought a variety of dispute. Although many great critics had their authoritative comments on the ...The Scarlet Letter is the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorne who was a great American novelist. After being , the book brought a variety of dispute. Although many great critics had their authoritative comments on the work, the author of this paper focused on the psycho-logical description in The Scarlet Letter.This paper focus on the analysis of the psychological description of the characters in The Scarlet Letter. This paper is divided into two parts-- The first part is " Personality of the main characters", which depicts the different personality of the characters. The second part is" Wonderful Psychological Description ". The psychology description of characters connected with the portrayal of scenes, the development of plot and the foil of nature surroundings to explore the secret in characters'complicated and contradictory interior world. This kind of psychological description didn't only makes the disposition of the characters distinctive but also works a lot in the development of plot and intensification of the theme. Although Hawthorne took good use of psychological description, he had one shortcoming--to make characters seem negative when the author made psychological depiction lifelikely, which, to some extent, destroyed the brilliant images of characters and weaken the ideoligical meanings. Generally speaking, it is a good literature work for people to study old literature and create today's literature.展开更多
文摘The Scarlet Letter is the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorne who was a great American novelist. After being , the book brought a variety of dispute. Although many great critics had their authoritative comments on the work, the author of this paper focused on the psycho-logical description in The Scarlet Letter.This paper focus on the analysis of the psychological description of the characters in The Scarlet Letter. This paper is divided into two parts-- The first part is " Personality of the main characters", which depicts the different personality of the characters. The second part is" Wonderful Psychological Description ". The psychology description of characters connected with the portrayal of scenes, the development of plot and the foil of nature surroundings to explore the secret in characters'complicated and contradictory interior world. This kind of psychological description didn't only makes the disposition of the characters distinctive but also works a lot in the development of plot and intensification of the theme. Although Hawthorne took good use of psychological description, he had one shortcoming--to make characters seem negative when the author made psychological depiction lifelikely, which, to some extent, destroyed the brilliant images of characters and weaken the ideoligical meanings. Generally speaking, it is a good literature work for people to study old literature and create today's literature.
