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1、AnalysisofSymbolisminTheScarletLetter字数：2883来源：ICSREI杂志 2012年11期 字体：大 中 小 打印当页正文 Abstract.TheScarletLetteristheAmericannovelofthenineteenthcentury.InTheScarletLetter,symbolismrunsthroughthenovel.Thispaperresearchesthesymbolismfromtheaspectofthesymbo
2、licmeaningofthescarletletter. Keywords:TheScarletLetter;symbolism;romance I.Introduction TheScarletLetteristheAmericannovelofthenineteenthcentury.Itwaspublishedin1850.Theperiodfrom1840sto1870swasthecentralpartoftheso-calledVictorianhistory.PetterJ.P
3、arishdiscussedthisinhisessayConfidenceandAnxietyinVictorianAmerican.InthisessayParisharguesthata"peculiarcombinationofconfidenceandanxietyseemstohavebeenadistinctivefeatureofVictorianAmerican".Thatmeans,ononehand,therapidsocialchange,theindustrializationa
4、ndurbanization,theexpansionofthereligiousintolerance,alltheseformtheserioussocialconflictsatthattime,andthemostimportantofwhichisthatthehumanityisrealizedandacceptedbypeoplewider,andtheconflictsbetweendivinityandhumanitybecomeshotter.TheScarletLetteristhe
5、mostfamousworksthatreflectsthissituation.Thisremarkablenovelsmirrorsthestronghumanityandthecriticismofthesociety. SomeofHawthorne’scontemporarywriterssuchasHenryJames,EdgarAllenPoeandHermanMelvillewerehisfirstcritics.HenryJames(1843-1916),US-Britishfamo
6、usnovelist,regardsitasthemostexcellentclassicnovel.Heclaimsthat“Thebookwasthefirstpieceofimaginativewritingyetputforthinthecountry-somethingmightatlastbesenttoEuropeasexquisiteinqualityasthethingthathadbeenreceived,andthebestofitwasthatrhethingwasabsolute
7、lyAmerican;itbelongedtothesoil,totheair…EdgarALLENPoe(1809-1849),U.Spoet,eriticandshortstorywriter,hailedhimasthefinestpractitionerofart,prisedhimas“extraordinarygenius,havingnorivalertherinAmericaandelsewhere”.HermanMelcille(1819-1891),Hawthorne’sbestfri
8、end,oneofthegreatestU.Swriters,calledhim“thelargestbrainwiththelargestheart.”inAmericaliterature.HecomparedhimtoShakespeare,hewrotein1850,theyearwhenTheScarletLetterwaspublished,“NowIdonotsaythatNathanielofSalem(Haw
