摘要
霍桑被认为是19世纪美国最具作用力的浪漫主义小说家之一。他的主要代表作《红字》一经发表就在各个时代的评论家中引起了轰动。作者通过对《红字》原文的解读以及对过去各类评论的探讨，从两大方面略论了《红字》中存在的矛盾思想：1.对清教思想的双重态度；2.对女性地位的双重评判。论文表明由于作者与清教传统，英语论文题目，英语论文范文，女性主义与超验主义的复杂联系，使得《红字》处处渗透着作家复杂、矛盾的观点。
关键词：霍桑；《红字》；矛盾；清教；女性主义
Abstract
Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered to be one of the most influential American romantic novelists in the 19th century. And the publication of his masterpiece The Scarlet letter created a sensation among critics of all the generations. By reading the novel and analyzing the former critics, the writer analyzes the contradictory ideas in The Scarlet letter from two aspects: 1. dual attitudes toward the puritan doctrines 2.dual evaluation toward the status of women. The paper argues that Nathaniel Hawthorne had an intricate relationship with the tradition of American Puritanism, feminism and transcendentalism, which makes The Scarlet Letter is full of the complicated and contradictory views of Hawthorne.
Key words: Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Scarlet Letter; contradictory; puritan; feminism
1 Introduction
1.1 Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Mass., on July 4, 1804. He was brought up in a typical puritan family and was soaked in Puritanism. The Hathornes had been involved in religious persecution with their first American forebear, William, and John Hawthorne was one of the three judges at the 17th-century Salem witchcraft trials. Having learned about this, the author may have added the "w" to his surname in his early twenties, shortly after graduating from college, in an effort to dissociate himself from his notorious forebears. Hawthorne's father, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sr., was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow fever in Suriname.After his death, young Nathaniel, his mother and two sisters moved in with maternal relatives in Salem, where they lived for ten years. The early life of Hawthorne deeply affected the style of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novels.
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