- 1、下载文档前请自行甄别文档内容的完整性,平台不提供额外的编辑、内容补充、找答案等附加服务。
- 2、"仅部分预览"的文档,不可在线预览部分如存在完整性等问题,可反馈申请退款(可完整预览的文档不适用该条件!)。
- 3、如文档侵犯您的权益,请联系客服反馈,我们会尽快为您处理(人工客服工作时间:9:00-18:30)。
plot
• What :Hester Prynne, a
young woman found guilty of adultery, is required to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress. As Hester looks out over the crowd, she notices a small, misshapen man and recognizes him as her long-lost husband, who has been presumed lost at sea. He angrily exclaims that the child's father should also be punished and vows to find the man.
coward
struggle
confession
Roger Chillingworth The loss & regain of humanity
Based on the New England's religious background, dedicating to the exploration of morality and the sense of sin problem
content
• When: 17th • Where: in the Puritan town of Boston • Who: Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale Roger Chillingworth Pearl
1841, he married Sophia Peabody, living in the Old Manse, in Concord.
1846, he wrote the splendid stories called Mosses from an Old Manse (古宅青苔)and worked at the customs office again. 1850, he wrote The Scarlet letter(红字), which was a great success. 1851, he wrote The House of the Seven Gables(带七个尖顶的阁楼).
Analysis of The Scarlet Letter
By 11英语1班 李嘉瑛 11英语1班 陈钦姝
11英语4班 史予恺
11英语4班 孙琪琦
11英语4班 彭微
11英语4班 林芝
Biographical Introduction of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804—1864 Salem, Massachusetts, US Bowdoin College, in Maine The pioneer of American romantic and psychoanalytic novel in the 19th century Ancestors
adultery able
Arthur Dimmesdale Inner struggle & thoroughly realize be sanctimonious
young, physically delicate, sensitivity, educated, modest
VS
cowardice&selfish
• Following her release from prison, Hester settles in a cottage, she lives a quiet, somber life with her daughter, Pearl. But her conduct starts rumors, and, not surprisingly, the church members suggest Pearl be taken away from Hester. So she goes to speak to Governor Bellingham. Hester appeals to Reverend Dimmesdale in desperation, and the minister persuades the governor to let Pearl remain in Hester's care.
1852, he wrote The Blithedale Romance (福谷传奇).
1853, Franklin Pierce became President, he was appointed to a consular position in Liverpool. 1860, he wrote the novel, The Marble Faun(玉石人像). 1864, when traveling with Pierce, he died in New Hampshire.
Judge Hathorne the Salem witch trials
Sea Captain died when the boy was four
Father
Mother
Nathaniel Hawthorn in Bowdoin College, Hawthorne made friends with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Franklin Pierce.
1828, he wrote a full-length novel, Fanshawe, which was published anonymous, but caught no attention. He destroyed all the rest by fire. 1830s, he edited a magazine in Boston, and afterward worked at the customs office.
• Chillingworth, a newly arrived physician, takes up lodgings with Dimmesdale. He applies psychological pressure to the minister because he suspects Dimmesdale to be Pearl's father. One evening, pulling the sleeping Dimmesdale's vestment aside, Chillingworth sees a symbol that represents his shame on the sleeping minister's pale chest. • Tormented by his guilty conscience, Dimmesdale goes to the square where Hester was punished years earlier. Climbing the scaffold, he sees Hester and Pearl and calls to them to join him. He admits his guilt to them but cannot find the courage to do so publicly. Suddenly Dimmesdale sees a meteor forming what appears to be a gigantic A in the sky.
Psychological romance 心理罗曼史 The openness of American psychoanalysis novels. 美国心理分析小说的开创篇
Writing background
1 Traditional Puritan family and Puritanism tendency 2 Humanism thought and object to the strict disciplines of Puritanism 3 Study New England colonial era 4 Wash off the curse of witches incurred by his ancestors Complicated and contradictory ethical ideology
Hester Prynne sin & redemption
lady------young, tall, beautiful, with an elegant figure, abundant glossy dark hair, a rich complexion and deep-sat black eyes Strong-----suffers so much but never give up Kind&self-devoted-----services to the sick and the poor as well as helping her neighbors with her little substances
• Several days later, Hester meets Dimmesdale in the forest, she convinces Dimmesdale to leave Boston in secret on a ship to Europe where they can start life anew. Renewed by this plan, the minister seems to gain new energy. Returning to town, Dimmesdale loses heart in their plan. Meanwhile, Hester is informed by the captain of the ship on which she arranged passage that Roger Chillingworth will also be a passenger.