红字a的象征意义英文版

1、红字 a 的象征意义英文版 【篇一：红字 a 的象征意义英文版】according to original work, a in fact means adultory, however, at the night when the governor dies, theletter a appearing in the sky is regarded as angel and as hester gains a strange influence, somepeople relate a with able.【篇二：红字 a 的象征意义英文版】symbolism of the letter a

2、 throughout the scarlet letter a 方蒂蒂江西农业大学 2004 届毕业生 fang didi class 2004 jiangxiagriculture university abstract: there have been a lot ofarguments over the diversity of symbol over the past years.however, nathaniel hawthorne is successful in employingsymbolic techniques and lays great emphasis on t

3、he diversityof symbol. the scarlet letter written by nathaniel hawthorne isundoubtedly been considered as his masterpiece, is praised asone of the greatest novels and regarded as the first symbolicnovel in american literature. this novel includes many profound and important symbols, and the author s

4、 symbolicstyle has the rich flavors of emotion and conforms to noconventional pattern. hawthorns symbolism, especially thesymbolic letter a helps make the keynote of the story clearerand the characters to the life. the changing symbolic meaningsthroughout the novel are the best expressed by the lett

5、er a .this paper attempts to discuss the diversity of symbolism inthis novel, i.e. the changing symbolic meanings of the scarletletter a , and their manifestations. key words: nathaniel hawthorne; the scarlet letter; symbols; symbolism; thediversity 象征的多义性曾引 起过不少争议 , 然而纳撒尼尔 霍桑却出色地运用了 象征主义手法和成功地突出强调了

6、 象征的多义性 . 红字 无庸质疑地被认为是霍桑最杰出 的作品 , 也被赞誉为美国文学上最出 色小说, 同时也是美国第一部象征小说 . 这部小说包含了 很多意味深 远而且重要的象征 , 作者的象征手法具有浓郁的感情色彩 , 不拘于传统形式. 作者通过象征手法 , 尤其是具有象征意义字母 a 使得文章主线清晰, 并且给人物注入了 生命力 . 字母 a 作为最具代表的例子是其在小说中含义的变化 . 本文试从红字 a 象征意义的多义性， 讨论红字 中的字母 a 的象征手法 . : 纳撒尼尔 霍桑; 红字 ; 象征; 象征主义; 多义性 the introduction to nathaniel ha

7、wthorne and hisintention of writing the scarlet letter. nathaniel hawthorne wasborn in an impoverished noble new england s family, thedescendent of a long line of puritan ancestors. among hisancestors, 2 generations were big wheels in organs of powerof unite of religion and politics in colony areas.

8、 they persecuted heterodoxy by zealot of puritan. lonely childhoodbranded his personality with melancholy and taciturn. after hisfather was lost at sea when he was only four, his motherbecame overly protective and pushed him toward moreisolated pursuits. his childhood left him overly shy andbookish,

9、 and molded his life as a writer. hawthorne turned towriting after his graduation from bowdon college. thoughhawthorne attacked the harmful religious zealots and stiflingreligious doctrines of garvin, he viewed on the world withreligious sense of good and devil in his deep heart. hesummed up the soc

10、ial contradiction, which he didn t understand and was caused by the development of capitalismas abstract evil . as he said, the source of social evilscontradictions among individuals phenomenon of crime werenot in the material social life, but were caused by intrinsic evilin inner world of man. so h

11、awthorne wrote that the resolutionto social problems started with the omnipresent evil . he saidthat once the internal world was purified, many sin loafingabout external world would disappear. his focusing on theabstract evil decided his writing trend mostly. he preferreddescribing trans-natural, we

12、ird, horrible scenes or dark,unusual psychological activities in order to explore the rootsof all kinds of social hidden evil . he said himself only loyal tothe truth of heart, comprising the heart to a winding andextending cave and the writing to driving actively in ourcommon human nature . so he u

13、sually analyzed a person spsychology cutting off social conditions peeled off the evilexisting in everyone s heart layer off layer. hawthorne focusedon the problem of guilt cared for the deeper psychology andhis major novels generally dealt with sensational material, likepoisoning, murder, adultery,

14、 and crime, because he wasambitious to explore the result of sin, the effect on humanconscience of guilt, pride, egotism, and isolation. his exploration of the soul resulted from his skeptical attitudetoward the limited social reality that was characterized by arapid change in almost all aspects of

15、social life, and from hisseclusion of thinking. the central subject of hawthorne s majorworks was the human soul. according to him, there is evil inevery human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, throughthe whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. so inalmost every book he writes

16、, hawthorne discusses sin and evil.for example, in another his novel endicott and the red cross,he describes a pretty woman also wears a scarlet letter on hercloth. human s characters are complex and elusive anddifficult to see through. so it s no right to define the human scharacter good or evil si

17、mply and cleanly. just because of thecomplexity of the human character and the difference of thestandards of good and evil, these literatures are so readableand fascinating magnetically. just because he lived in an agewhen the dynamic influence of puritanism was gone and theimpact of romanticism and

18、 transcendentalism was large feltamong the intellectuals, and thus his view of man and humanhistory originates, to a great extent, is puritanism. the sensibility led to his understanding of evil being at the verycore of human life, which is typical of the calvinistic belief thathuman beings are basi

19、cally depraved and corrupted, hence,they should obey god to atone for their sins. just as i mentionabove, in many of his stories and novels, the puritan conceptof life is condemned, or the puritan past is shown in an almosttotally negative light, especially in his the scarlet letter. hawthorne is at

20、tracted in every way to the puritan world, eventhough he condemns its less humane manifestations. in thisparticular novel, hawthorne does not intend to tell a love storynor a story of sin, but focuses his attention on the moral,emotional, and psychological effects or consequences of thesin on the pe

21、ople in general and those main characters inparticular, so as to show us the tension between society andindividuals. as a man of literary craftsmanship, hawthorne isextraordinary. the structure and the form writings are alwayscarefully worked out to cater for the thematic concern. with hisspecial in

22、terest in the psychological aspect of human beings,there isn t much action or physical movement going on in hisworks and he is good at exploring the complexity of humanpsychology. so his drama is full of mental activities. thoughtpropels action and grows organically out of the interaction ofthe char

23、acters, as we can find in this novel. the generalintroduction of symbolism just as characterization anddialogue and plot work on the surface to move the story along,symbolism works under the surface to tie the storys externalaction to the theme. early in the development of the fictionalnarrative, sy

24、mbolism was often produced through allegory,giving the literal event and its allegorical counterpart a one-to-one correspondence. symbolism operates on the level of theunconscious. this does not mean that the author himself isunconscious of the process of creating symbolism - merelythat we, as reade

25、rs, accept its input without really understanding how it works. symbolism, therefore, is anintegral component of fiction, because it enriches the narrativeby pulling its message down to the level of our unconsciousness and anchoring it there. developed in the late19th century, symbolism is an art movement characterized bythe representation of the inner life of people through spiritualsymbols and ideas. it began as a rejection of the purely visualrealism of the impressionists, and the rationality of theindustrial age, in order to depict the symbols of ideas.traditionally modeled