This essay mainly focuses on one of the main characters in the novel The Scarlet LetterHester Prynne. The author fully analyze the heroine from different angles.
Nathaniel Hawthorne'masterpiece The Scarlet Letter is notable for its symbolism. Symbolism plays a significant role both in developing the theme of this book and enhancing the artistic effects of his work greatly....Nathaniel Hawthorne'masterpiece The Scarlet Letter is notable for its symbolism. Symbolism plays a significant role both in developing the theme of this book and enhancing the artistic effects of his work greatly. Symbolism is a literary device which is adopted to portray another object or individual. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne often used a tangible object to represent an undefined idea, complex in scope and significance. This paper studies the symbol meanings of some important col?ors- red or scarlet, gray and green which are described in the novel to make the readers get a deeper and clearer understanding of the use of symbolism.展开更多
In this paper,it intends to analyze the transformation of Hester Prynne herself and the change of social attitudes to Hester Prynne,attempting to better understand the protagonist Hester Prynne.Meanwhile,in the transf...In this paper,it intends to analyze the transformation of Hester Prynne herself and the change of social attitudes to Hester Prynne,attempting to better understand the protagonist Hester Prynne.Meanwhile,in the transformation of Hester,it will analyze the torment that she suffered at that time and the internal torture that she bore.And this paper also will reveal the process how she changed from a shameful scared woman to a strong and brave woman.By analyzing such problems,it can specifically unfold Hester's glamour.展开更多
The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world, while The White Snake is one of the most famous legends in China. This paper compares the two miserable heroines and reveals...The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world, while The White Snake is one of the most famous legends in China. This paper compares the two miserable heroines and reveals all the religions serve to the ruling power.展开更多
As the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorn's writing, The Scarlet Letter not only brings him fame forever, but also gives us more about people's life in Puritan society in 17th. Since this novel is so important ...As the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorn's writing, The Scarlet Letter not only brings him fame forever, but also gives us more about people's life in Puritan society in 17th. Since this novel is so important and excellent, the thesis mainly focuses on probing into the theme of elements of tragedy in The Scarlet Letter. According to the whole story, the love tragedy is attributed to four factors: the Puritan beliefs of original sin, the attitude of public on love outside marriage, the personalities of the main characters, and the differences between dream and reality.展开更多
The Thorn Birds and Scarlet Letter both explore the theme of love and religion, and both show the skilful use of imagism and symbolism. This essay analyzes the common images of the two novels and compares their simila...The Thorn Birds and Scarlet Letter both explore the theme of love and religion, and both show the skilful use of imagism and symbolism. This essay analyzes the common images of the two novels and compares their similarities and differences.展开更多
The Bible has a profound impact on Western culture,especially on Western literature.The Bible is the source of Western literature,and Writers often incite characters,legends,etc.from The Bible in their works to descri...The Bible has a profound impact on Western culture,especially on Western literature.The Bible is the source of Western literature,and Writers often incite characters,legends,etc.from The Bible in their works to describe or clarify the theme.By analyzing the 19th century American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,this article deeply analyzes the influence of The Bible from the aspects of character archetype,symbolic intention,and redemption theme.展开更多
The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850. From main idea of this story, it's easy for us to see the fact that it exposed gloomy and despicable repulsion of human nature and at the same time extolled glorious soul ...The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850. From main idea of this story, it's easy for us to see the fact that it exposed gloomy and despicable repulsion of human nature and at the same time extolled glorious soul by portraying the dark reality under Puritanism in the 17th century. It exposed bourgeoisie Puritans' hypocrisy, selfishness and fraudulence.展开更多
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
The symbols in Hawthorne＇s masterpiece The Scarlet Letter have the characteristics of indefmiteness and multi-sense, the most typical being the scarlet letter ＂A＂ and the forest. The reference of the scarlet letter...The symbols in Hawthorne＇s masterpiece The Scarlet Letter have the characteristics of indefmiteness and multi-sense, the most typical being the scarlet letter ＂A＂ and the forest. The reference of the scarlet letter ＂A＂ changes from ＂Adulteress＂ to ＂Able＂ then to ＂Angel.＂ And the forest stands for individual freedom, danger and evil as well. The indefiniteness and multi-sense reflect the author＇s contradictions in mind： on one hand, he is in opposition to Puritanism＇s depression of humanity, but conforms to the moral principles of Puritanism on the other.展开更多
After reading the novel the scarlet letter,I get an idea that the characters of hero and heroine in the novel give the readers a deep impression,showing different attitudes when facing difficulties.Besides,the develop...After reading the novel the scarlet letter,I get an idea that the characters of hero and heroine in the novel give the readers a deep impression,showing different attitudes when facing difficulties.Besides,the development of the characters of the hero and heroine in the novel lead readers to know more about it and get great enlightenment from it.展开更多
Nathaniel Hawthorne is the greatest American romantic novelist during the nineteenth century. This paper researches the symbolism in his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter from the aspect of the symbolic meaning of the sc...Nathaniel Hawthorne is the greatest American romantic novelist during the nineteenth century. This paper researches the symbolism in his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter from the aspect of the symbolic meaning of the scarlet letter.展开更多
The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world. There are many aspects worth our consideration in The Scarlet Letter, but one about human nature and moral problems is espec...The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world. There are many aspects worth our consideration in The Scarlet Letter, but one about human nature and moral problems is especially deserving of our discussion. This paper mainly reveals the beauty and ugliness of human nature by analyzing the honesty and hypocrisy of the three leading characters in The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne is an honest woman, who bravely admits her love to the young minister Dimmesdale and never cheats her husband Chillingworth. Whereas, honesty and hypocrisy have no clear borderline on Dimmesdale and Chillingworth. Because of atonement, the timid, hypocritical minister surpasses himself and returns to honesty at last, but the once-honest scholar changes himself into Satan due to revenge. The paper mainly tells people that the best policy for man is to be true, honest, and ever ready to show one's worst to the outside world.展开更多
The Scarlet Letter is the most famous novel of the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the greatest romantic American writers in the 19th century. The fully description of the four leading characters in the no...The Scarlet Letter is the most famous novel of the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the greatest romantic American writers in the 19th century. The fully description of the four leading characters in the novel shows that Hawthorne makes skillful use of symbolism and explores the different kinds of humanity of Hester, Dimmesdale ,Chillingworth and Pearl. Hester Prynne is a young and beautiful wiman who has brought a child into the world with unknown father. She is punished by puritan society by wearing the scarlet letter "A" on the bosom of her dress. She accepts the punishment in public and helps the misfortune, at last wins the respect of the towns' people. Arthur Dimmesdale is a man torn by a guilty conscience but without the courage to commit his sin. Having struggled the guilt for 7 years, Dimmesdale confess his guilt publicly. Roger Chillworth is a kind of demon and always wants to take revenge on Dimmesdale. He is gradually destroying himself. Pearl functions as a symbol from some aspects: the symbol of the letter, the symbol of freedom, the symbol of consummation, and so on. This paper concentrates on the analysis of the four major characters from the view of human nature.展开更多
Hawthorne is an influential romantic novelist in America in 19thcentury. He is famous in handling the application of symbolism. The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the wor...Hawthorne is an influential romantic novelist in America in 19thcentury. He is famous in handling the application of symbolism. The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world. The vivid description of the four characters in the novel shows that Hawthorne is skilful in the use of symbolism. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850 and it is Hawthorne＇s most important symbolic novel, which stands as the best work of Hawthorne. It has great significance in America literature. Hawthorne used symbolism through the whole novel. The most obvious symbol is the four main characters in the novel： Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth and Pearl have their own symbolic meanings. This thesis is written in the hope to introduce ananalyze the symbolic meaning of the four main characters in The Scarlet Letter.展开更多
Conceptual metaphor has always been the study focus of cognitive linguistics. Conceptual metaphor is ubiquitous, cognitive and systematic. Nathaniel Hawthorne in his representative work The Scarlet Letter makes full u...Conceptual metaphor has always been the study focus of cognitive linguistics. Conceptual metaphor is ubiquitous, cognitive and systematic. Nathaniel Hawthorne in his representative work The Scarlet Letter makes full use of the conceptual metaphor. A detailed description of the heroine Hester Prynne through the conceptual metaphor fully expresses Nathaniel Hawthorne＇ s feminist thoughts. Through the metaphorical analyses of the name Pearl, the scarlet letter ＂A＂, the forest and the scaffold this paper analyzes Hester Prynne＇ s resistant consciousness. On the basis of this, the positive social significance of the novel is explored.展开更多
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classical novel in American literature in the 19th century.Hawthorne is deeply influenced by Puritanism.His representative work, The Scarlet Letter, reflects the Calvinis...The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classical novel in American literature in the 19th century.Hawthorne is deeply influenced by Puritanism.His representative work, The Scarlet Letter, reflects the Calvinistic thought of "Original Sin".His novel also expresses his pious attitude with skepticism for ethics and morality of Puritanism.On one hand,Hawthorne strongly criticizes Calvinism for constraining human nature, and on the other hand, regards some social problems as the sake of evil human nature.He advocates the believers to clear themselves of guilt and to purify their hearts by penitence and kindness.展开更多
Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.She is regarded as the representative of feminism.There are many explanations on the scarlet letter "A" on Hester's bosom:ability,Angel...Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.She is regarded as the representative of feminism.There are many explanations on the scarlet letter "A" on Hester's bosom:ability,Angel… On the basis of deep reading of The Scarlet Letter,the author of this essay discusses a new meaning of the scarlet letter "A" - active.展开更多
As a great romantic novelist in America in 19th century,Hawthorne was outstanding in handling the application of symbolism.The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's most important symbolic novel,which stands as the best w...As a great romantic novelist in America in 19th century,Hawthorne was outstanding in handling the application of symbolism.The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's most important symbolic novel,which stands as the best work of Hawthorne and one of the indubitable masterpieces of American literature.This thesis aims at the exploration of the usage of the symbolism in the novel.It mainly discusses the deep symbolic significance of the scarlet letter "A" and the little pearl.The scarlet letter is the central symbol of the novel.Its symbolic meaning changes from 'adultery' to 'able',even 'angelic' in the novel.It also examines the symbolic meanings of little Pearl and some typical natural surroundings such as the jail,the forest,the rosebush and so on.展开更多
文摘This essay mainly focuses on one of the main characters in the novel The Scarlet LetterHester Prynne. The author fully analyze the heroine from different angles.
文摘Nathaniel Hawthorne'masterpiece The Scarlet Letter is notable for its symbolism. Symbolism plays a significant role both in developing the theme of this book and enhancing the artistic effects of his work greatly. Symbolism is a literary device which is adopted to portray another object or individual. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne often used a tangible object to represent an undefined idea, complex in scope and significance. This paper studies the symbol meanings of some important col?ors- red or scarlet, gray and green which are described in the novel to make the readers get a deeper and clearer understanding of the use of symbolism.
文摘In this paper,it intends to analyze the transformation of Hester Prynne herself and the change of social attitudes to Hester Prynne,attempting to better understand the protagonist Hester Prynne.Meanwhile,in the transformation of Hester,it will analyze the torment that she suffered at that time and the internal torture that she bore.And this paper also will reveal the process how she changed from a shameful scared woman to a strong and brave woman.By analyzing such problems,it can specifically unfold Hester's glamour.
文摘The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world, while The White Snake is one of the most famous legends in China. This paper compares the two miserable heroines and reveals all the religions serve to the ruling power.
文摘As the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorn's writing, The Scarlet Letter not only brings him fame forever, but also gives us more about people's life in Puritan society in 17th. Since this novel is so important and excellent, the thesis mainly focuses on probing into the theme of elements of tragedy in The Scarlet Letter. According to the whole story, the love tragedy is attributed to four factors: the Puritan beliefs of original sin, the attitude of public on love outside marriage, the personalities of the main characters, and the differences between dream and reality.
文摘The Thorn Birds and Scarlet Letter both explore the theme of love and religion, and both show the skilful use of imagism and symbolism. This essay analyzes the common images of the two novels and compares their similarities and differences.
文摘The Bible has a profound impact on Western culture,especially on Western literature.The Bible is the source of Western literature,and Writers often incite characters,legends,etc.from The Bible in their works to describe or clarify the theme.By analyzing the 19th century American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,this article deeply analyzes the influence of The Bible from the aspects of character archetype,symbolic intention,and redemption theme.
文摘The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850. From main idea of this story, it's easy for us to see the fact that it exposed gloomy and despicable repulsion of human nature and at the same time extolled glorious soul by portraying the dark reality under Puritanism in the 17th century. It exposed bourgeoisie Puritans' hypocrisy, selfishness and fraudulence.
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.
文摘The symbols in Hawthorne＇s masterpiece The Scarlet Letter have the characteristics of indefmiteness and multi-sense, the most typical being the scarlet letter ＂A＂ and the forest. The reference of the scarlet letter ＂A＂ changes from ＂Adulteress＂ to ＂Able＂ then to ＂Angel.＂ And the forest stands for individual freedom, danger and evil as well. The indefiniteness and multi-sense reflect the author＇s contradictions in mind： on one hand, he is in opposition to Puritanism＇s depression of humanity, but conforms to the moral principles of Puritanism on the other.
文摘After reading the novel the scarlet letter,I get an idea that the characters of hero and heroine in the novel give the readers a deep impression,showing different attitudes when facing difficulties.Besides,the development of the characters of the hero and heroine in the novel lead readers to know more about it and get great enlightenment from it.
文摘Nathaniel Hawthorne is the greatest American romantic novelist during the nineteenth century. This paper researches the symbolism in his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter from the aspect of the symbolic meaning of the scarlet letter.
文摘The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world. There are many aspects worth our consideration in The Scarlet Letter, but one about human nature and moral problems is especially deserving of our discussion. This paper mainly reveals the beauty and ugliness of human nature by analyzing the honesty and hypocrisy of the three leading characters in The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne is an honest woman, who bravely admits her love to the young minister Dimmesdale and never cheats her husband Chillingworth. Whereas, honesty and hypocrisy have no clear borderline on Dimmesdale and Chillingworth. Because of atonement, the timid, hypocritical minister surpasses himself and returns to honesty at last, but the once-honest scholar changes himself into Satan due to revenge. The paper mainly tells people that the best policy for man is to be true, honest, and ever ready to show one's worst to the outside world.
文摘The Scarlet Letter is the most famous novel of the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the greatest romantic American writers in the 19th century. The fully description of the four leading characters in the novel shows that Hawthorne makes skillful use of symbolism and explores the different kinds of humanity of Hester, Dimmesdale ,Chillingworth and Pearl. Hester Prynne is a young and beautiful wiman who has brought a child into the world with unknown father. She is punished by puritan society by wearing the scarlet letter "A" on the bosom of her dress. She accepts the punishment in public and helps the misfortune, at last wins the respect of the towns' people. Arthur Dimmesdale is a man torn by a guilty conscience but without the courage to commit his sin. Having struggled the guilt for 7 years, Dimmesdale confess his guilt publicly. Roger Chillworth is a kind of demon and always wants to take revenge on Dimmesdale. He is gradually destroying himself. Pearl functions as a symbol from some aspects: the symbol of the letter, the symbol of freedom, the symbol of consummation, and so on. This paper concentrates on the analysis of the four major characters from the view of human nature.
文摘Hawthorne is an influential romantic novelist in America in 19thcentury. He is famous in handling the application of symbolism. The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world. The vivid description of the four characters in the novel shows that Hawthorne is skilful in the use of symbolism. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850 and it is Hawthorne＇s most important symbolic novel, which stands as the best work of Hawthorne. It has great significance in America literature. Hawthorne used symbolism through the whole novel. The most obvious symbol is the four main characters in the novel： Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth and Pearl have their own symbolic meanings. This thesis is written in the hope to introduce ananalyze the symbolic meaning of the four main characters in The Scarlet Letter.
文摘Conceptual metaphor has always been the study focus of cognitive linguistics. Conceptual metaphor is ubiquitous, cognitive and systematic. Nathaniel Hawthorne in his representative work The Scarlet Letter makes full use of the conceptual metaphor. A detailed description of the heroine Hester Prynne through the conceptual metaphor fully expresses Nathaniel Hawthorne＇ s feminist thoughts. Through the metaphorical analyses of the name Pearl, the scarlet letter ＂A＂, the forest and the scaffold this paper analyzes Hester Prynne＇ s resistant consciousness. On the basis of this, the positive social significance of the novel is explored.
文摘The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classical novel in American literature in the 19th century.Hawthorne is deeply influenced by Puritanism.His representative work, The Scarlet Letter, reflects the Calvinistic thought of "Original Sin".His novel also expresses his pious attitude with skepticism for ethics and morality of Puritanism.On one hand,Hawthorne strongly criticizes Calvinism for constraining human nature, and on the other hand, regards some social problems as the sake of evil human nature.He advocates the believers to clear themselves of guilt and to purify their hearts by penitence and kindness.
文摘Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.She is regarded as the representative of feminism.There are many explanations on the scarlet letter "A" on Hester's bosom:ability,Angel… On the basis of deep reading of The Scarlet Letter,the author of this essay discusses a new meaning of the scarlet letter "A" - active.
文摘As a great romantic novelist in America in 19th century,Hawthorne was outstanding in handling the application of symbolism.The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's most important symbolic novel,which stands as the best work of Hawthorne and one of the indubitable masterpieces of American literature.This thesis aims at the exploration of the usage of the symbolism in the novel.It mainly discusses the deep symbolic significance of the scarlet letter "A" and the little pearl.The scarlet letter is the central symbol of the novel.Its symbolic meaning changes from 'adultery' to 'able',even 'angelic' in the novel.It also examines the symbolic meanings of little Pearl and some typical natural surroundings such as the jail,the forest,the rosebush and so on.
