Attitudes towards Love between Hester and Camilla 海斯特米拉爱情态度的差异.docVIP

海斯特米拉爱情态度的差异 Attitudes towards Love between Hester and Camilla Outline Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of the Attitudes towards Love between Hester and Camilla Ⅰ. Introduction Ⅱ. The Different Backgrounds of Hester and Camilla A. The Influence of Puritanism upon Hester’s Poor Fate B. Condemn From Royal Family and the Public towards Camilla Ⅲ. Differences in Character between Hester and Camilla A. Hester’s Guilty Feelings B. Camilla’s Confidence Ⅳ. Rebellious Spirits A. Hester’s Three Main Rebellions 1. Insistence on the Guardianship over Pearl 2. Disclosing of the Hypocrisy of Chilling worth 3. Encouraging Dimondale Fleeing away with her B. Camilla’s Rebellion Ⅵ. Conclusion Abstract Hawthorne was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. The Scarlet Letter is his masterpiece, which reflects how the Puritanism devastates the human spirits and people’s longing for happiness. From the feminist point of view, The Scarlet Letter is also a novel about a rebellious woman, Hester. It creatively deduces that the heroine is fighting against the patriarchal oppression on her. The woman image that advocates feminism and seeks the romantic love is outstanding especially in Puritan society. Even though she is strong, brave, industrious, kindhearted, and with a lofty devoting spirit, her whole life is very tragic in the end. Camilla is now a “controversial” Princess in the English royal family, since she was Charles’s mistress for a long time before their marriage. Although Hester and Camilla are women in different eras, they have something in common. They have painful experiences of marriages without love. “Love is built on ideal soil, while marriage is on the basis of reality” (Xing Went, 82). Therefore, this paper mainly analyzes their attitudes towards love by comparison. There are similarities among their views of love. For example, both of them are rebellious women and eager to gain true love, struggling against the loveless marriages. The paper mostly demo