红字-英文读后感--自己写的.doc

The Scarlet LetterThe Scarlet Letterwritten by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel concerns souls.Everyone has his own soul.Someone defends his soul,someone does damage to it,even there are people who lose their own souls.In consequence,this world is filled with human stories in thousands of postures.“A” is the first letter of the alphabetic which means the beginning of one thing.However,inn Christians tradition, the beginning indicates deprivation and original sin that no one can get rid of.According to the Bible,we are all the seed of Adam.Nevertheless,Adam and Eve were punished by Jehovah for their stealing to eat love forbidden fruit.Owing to this,we,who are the descendants of Adam and Eve,are born guilty.In Puritans eyes,Hester Prynne is a dissolute and immoral woman.They take Hester into custody just to show the dignity of God. So foolish people they are!An ugly woman cries:“This woman has brought shame upon us all,and ought to die.Is there not law for it? Truly there is,both in the Scripture and the statute book.”(2009:56)From this description,we can easily find that people there are so indifferent that they seem to be captivate by the church. We see,Hester is so common a woman who is dying for love and does not want to be forced to compromise to reality.“She had dark and abundant hair,so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam,and a face which,besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion,had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes”.(57)Hester is such a good woman that she shows great love to her beloved-Mr Dimmesdale.This religious entanglement of emotions is difficult for people who have no religion belief to understand.I am such a person who can not understand.Religion has been part of the Westernerss life and it must be very painful to leave the religious life.But I do not have a religious experience, so it is hard for me to understand the heros psychology. These are the obstacles for me to understand the novel and I find it hard to overcome it.Hesters abundant emotions are not only indicated in her enthusiasm for love, but also her devotion to life, her utmost care for her daughter,and indomitable struggle against appress.Apparently,she submits herself to the adjustment and bears a lot to carry on her life.However,she keeps struggling with the puritanism inwardly.Here, in chapter 18,we can see the vivid words:“She and wandered,without rule or guidance,in a moral wilderness;as vast,the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate.Her intellect and heart had their home,as it were,in a decent place,where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.”(215)She insists that things she does with Mr Dimmesdale are pure.Hester lives in a small town,swallowing humiliation and bearing a heavy load,not that she wants to atone for her crime,but that she shows her resistance against puritanism.Then,I would like to give some of my analyses upon the symbolism of the word A.First, the most important one,A indicates the great Affection between Hester and Dimmesdale.She could escape from that place, but she is brave enough to face the reality and bear the sufferings on her own.Luckily,her warm heart wins peoples acceptance.So,here, A is a symbol of Able.Finally,Hester with her virtues wins the respect of the people, A became the symbol of the Angel. With the development of the plot, Hester gradually moves towards awakening and mature, tenacious against the Puritan rule, and thus the A has the meaning of an indomitable woman- Amazon.The letter A is a symbol of love and it also represents a punishment from the God. The presence of the scarlet letter saves the soul of Hester, regulates her virtues, make people painful but enjoy the regained life, the author gives A multiple meanings. During this period,Dimmesdale is also in suffering,he can do nothing for Hester but to watch her being teased at ,and no matter how much he loves his daughter Pearl, he cannot let others know their true relationship between each other. He suffers from his conscience.He cried in the forest :“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! And Satan laughs at it!” (206) So here,A in Dimmesdale,is given another meaning-Agony.Little Pearl brings me happiness when reading the novel.Maybe she is the only bright character who can bring us cheers. She is the daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. First of all,the word “pearl”comes from the Bible which means a very precious thing.Recorded in the Bible, God allows a merchant to sell all their possessions to buy a pearl, and tells him that this pearl is his paradise.Hester pays a heavy p