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【标题】《红字》中的清教主义 【作者】谢莹璇 【关键词】清教主义；白兰；丁梅斯代尔；齐灵沃斯；珍珠 【指导老师】赵洪尹 【专业】英语 【正文】I. Introduction?The Scarlet Letter is a famous American novel, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, who is considered the leading American native fictionist of the 19th century. Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, of a prominent Puritan family, on July4, 1804.?“In 1850 he brought out his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter, the story of a triangular love affair in colonial America. In this novel Hawthorne condemned the Puritan philosophy of life.”1?“His stories display a psychological insight into moral isolation and human emotion. He distrusted the claim of objective reason to be able to arrive at humanly relevant truth.” 2?His short stories and novels include: The Minister’s Black Veil, Twice Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, The House of The Seven Gables, The Marble Faun. In this group The Scarlet Letter is the most famous. The novel is short but very moving. Prynne, a young and beautiful woman, comes to New England two years before her husband, an old, ugly man, who can not give Prynne love. Prynne, then falls in love and has a baby, Pearl, with Dimmesdale, a young handsome clergyman because she can not get any news from her husband, thinking that he has died. When her?“adultery” is discovered, she is punished to wear a scarlet letter?“A” on her chest all her life. Her husband, Roger, tries his best to torment Dismmesdale. And Dimmesdale, suffering from both physical and spirit torment, announces his?“sin” at last, and dies as an honest man. Roger withers at last. Prynne restructures her life and finally wins people’s respect. Pearl leaves for Europe, and marries a noble family, leading a happy life.Hawthorne’s thought was full of contradictions. In his days, American capitalism was developing rapidly, and the social structure was changeable. He couldn’t understand this change, and tried to explain it by discovering the?“hidden evil” in everyone’s heart because of the influenc