霍桑 红字 scarlet letter 英文 情节介绍 人物介绍 书籍摘要.pptxVIP

Agenda 1. Brief Introduction of the Plot 2.The Scarlett Letter and Puritanism 3. The writing skills in Scarlett Letter. 2.The Scarlett Letter and Puritanism What the main attitude Hawthorne held in Scarlett Letter? Mixed but Contradictory POSITIVE Every one carries the stain of SIN Different types of SIN in the novel Details They were her countrywomen: and the beef and ale of their native land, with a moral diet not a whit more refined, entered largely into their composition. The bright morning sun, therefore, shone on broad shoulders and well-developed busts, and on round and ruddy cheeks, that had ripened in the far-off island, and had hardly yet grown paler or thinner in the atmosphere of New England. (Chapter 2 ) Details In that old day the English settler on these rude shores—having left king, nobles, and all degrees of awful rank behind, while still the faculty and necessity of reverence was strong in him—bestowed it on the white hair and venerable brow of age—on long-tried integrity—on solid wisdom and sad-coloured experience—on endowments of that grave and weighty order which gave the idea of permanence, and comes under the general definition of respectability. (Chapter 22) Negative Hester Prynne The fighter Hester Prynne imbibed this spirit. She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatised by the scarlet letter. Rejection----Solitude----Think Beyond the Puritanism sphere Arthur Dimmesdale Victim In Mr. Dimmesdale’s secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge. Oftentimes, this Protestant and Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders, laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh. Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister’s miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence:—‘Be tr