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1、Hawthorne’ssymbolisminTheScarletLetterIntroductionTheScarletLettermakestheAmericanwriterNathanielHawthorneknownallaroundtheworld.ItisregardednotonlyasNathanielHawthornegreatestaccomplishment,butfrequentlyasthegreatestnovelinAmericanliteraryhistory.Italsoarosewideconcernsandattrac
2、tedthousandsofmillionsreaders.Afteritspublicationin1850,TheScarletLetterhasstayedinprintandinfavoreversince.Moreoverithasbeenhailedasthefirstsymbolicnovel.Inthisnovel,NathanielHawthorneapplysandunderlinesskillfullysymbol,whichmarksagreatbreakthroughinwritingmethod.Throughtheuseof
3、symbolism,Hawthornemoreconvenientlyaddressesmodernthemesofisolation,alienationandexpressedhisownviewonhumannatureandreligiousdoctrines.Withitsabundantofmeaningsandpossibilities,thesymbolforHawthornepromotesnarrativeintensityandprovespossibletoorganizedataleeffectivelyintermsofone
4、centralsymbolandtoportraytheambivalenceofmotiveandtheambiguityofexperiencethatdefineforhimthetextureofthehumancondition.WiththesuccessofTheScarletLetter,NathanielHawthornebecameoneofthegreatestwriteratthattimeandbuilthisreputationasamajorAmericanauthor.Sincethattimeon,peoplebegan
5、totakegreatinterestinallaspectsofhislife.HeisalsobecomingmoreandmorepopularandfamiliarwithChinesereaders,andscholarsandreadersinthiscountryhaveshownanever-increasinginterestinhisworks.Themainartisticwritingskillinthisnovelissymbolism,whichnotonlyrunsthroughthewholenovel,butalsoad
6、dslong-lastingcharmstothebook.ThisthesisattemptstoexpoundHawthorne’ssymbolisminTheScarletLetterthroughtheanalysisofthescarletletter“A”,thecharactersandthesettings.Itfirstexploresthesymbolismofthemulti-layeredmeaningsofthecapitalletter“A”.Then,itanalysesthesymbolicmeaningsofthemai
7、ncharacters.Finallyitconcentratesonsymbolicmeaningsofthesettings,suchastheprison,thescaffold,thewildrosebushes,theforest,thebrookandthesunshine.-13-1TheBackgroundofTheScarletLetterTheScarletLetterisan1850romanticworkoffictioninahistoricalsetting,writtenbyNathanielHawthorne.Thesto
8、rybeginsinseventeenth-centuryBoston,whic
