《红字》英文读后感

The Scarlet Letter offers an extraordinary insight into the norms and behavior of the 17th century if American Puritan society. The basic conflicts and problems of its main characters, however, are familiar to readers in the present. The female protagonist, has borne a child out of wedlock and has been jailed for over three months and

sentenced to wear a symbol of her adultery, a scarlet “A” on her dress at all times. It concerns about the moral, emotional and psychological effect of the sin on people in general. It’s not simply a love story or a story of sin. The Scarlet Letter by

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作者：纳撒尼尔·霍桑

                  2013年6月4日

                                             外语系10-2班李雪

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The Scarlet Letter

《The Scarlet Letter》written 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 Westerners’s 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 hero's psychology. These are the obstacles for me to understand the novel and I find it hard to overcome it.

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The Scarlet Letter offers an extraordinary insight into the norms and behavior of the 17th century if American Puritan society. The basic conflicts and problems of its main characters, however, are familiar to readers in the present. The female protagonist, has borne a child out of wedlock and has been jailed for over three months and sentenced to wear a symbol of her adultery, a scarlet “A” on her dress at all times. It concerns about the moral, emotional and psychological effect of the sin on people in general. It’s not simply a love story or a story of sin. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the scarlet letters to symbolize the harshness of Puritan society, showing how they brand sinners for life.

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Review of The Scarlet Letter (1)

Mengyan Li, Oct 13

The story is based on the colony times of America. It shows the cruelty of the law and the deceit of religion. It happens in Boston about 200 years ago.

The author narrates love affairs between a woman and two men. The beautiful and intelligent young woman, named Hester Prynne, has been led from the town prison with her infant baby in her arms, and on her chest is a rag of cloth which has a scarlet letter “A” on it. The scarlet letter “A” represents a symbol of her sin and for all people to see. The husband of the punished woman, who called himself Roger Chilling worth, is an old misshapen man and a doctor. He is elder than Hester and no one knows his real name. Hester doesn’t love him at all.

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The Scarlet Letter offers an extraordinary insight into the norms and behavior of the 17th century if American Puritan society. The basic conflicts and problems of its main characters, however, are familiar to readers in the present. The female protagonist, has borne a child out of wedlock and has been jailed for over three months and sentenced to wear a symbol of her adultery, a scarlet “A” on her dress at all times. It concerns about the moral, emotional and psychological effect of the sin on people in general. It’s not simply a love story or a story of sin. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the scarlet letters to symbolize the harshness of Puritan society, showing how they brand sinners for life.

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《红字》英文读后感

The Scarlet Letter offers an extraordinary insight into the norms and behavior of the 17th century if American Puritan society. The basic conflicts and problems of its main characters, however, are familiar to readers in the present. The female protagonist, has borne a child out of wedlock and has been jailed for over three months and sentenced to wear a symbol of her adultery, a scarlet “A” on her dress at all times. It concerns about the moral, emotional and

psychological effect of the sin on people in

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The Impressions of Scarlet Letter Last week I finished Scarlet Letter, I like to talk about this book. The writer named Nathaniel Hawthorne, he is an American novelist and short story writer. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his friend Franklin Pierce. The Scarlet Letter tells a story starts during the summer of 1642. A young woman, named Hester Prynne, has been led from the town prison with her infant daughter in her arms, and on the breast of her gown “a rag of scarlet cloth” that “assumed the shape of letter A.” Which is represents a badge of shame. Hester’s husband, who is much elder than her has sent her ahead to America whilst settling affairs in Europe. However, her husband does not arrive in Boston and the consensus is that he has been lost at sea. After I finished this novel I want to talk about Hester who is a glorious heroine, standing up to an unduly repressive society in the name of love and freedom, even though she is regarded as a sinner who has broken a basic law. For my personal sense, Hester is a magnificent woman fighting for her natural rights to love and freedom. She never gives up to the fate of her life. In the Scarlet Letter; passion justifies nothing, while its denial justifies all. Apart from that, writer uses many symbolisms which were used quite skillful. The technique he uses makes his novel more artistic.

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