Analysis of the Origin of Hawthorne’s Ecofeminist Consciousness in The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered as one of the greatest American novelists in 19th century and his reputation has been on the increase with the publication of The Scarlet Letter. This paper concentr...     

Hawthorne's Short Stories:a Journey to Explore Evil

Hawthorne was a great writer who reminds us of human limitations.He called his tales "allegories of the heart." Hawthorne’s allegories are stories of how pride and isolation frustrate our capacity for love and sympathy.Isolation or "alienation" is Hawthorne’s principal theme and problem,and loss of contact with reality is the ultimate penalty he envisions.Therefore,reading Hawthorne’s stories is a journey to explore human being’s evil.     

A View Of Frye＇s Young Goodman Brown From Theories Of Symbolism

Herman Nothrop Frye was a famous Canadian literary critic and theorist. According to him, symbol was :"Any unit of any literary structure that can be isolated for critical attention." He partitioned literary symbolism into five levels or phases. Each phase independently possessed its own mythos, ethos, and dianoia. These phases were: Symbol as motif; Symbol as sign; Symbol as image; Symbol as archetype and symbol as monad. This paper tries to apply his theories of symbolism to the comment of Young Goodman Brown, one of the best short stories written by the American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.     

The Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the well-known romantic novelists of the 19th century in American literature.Most of his works emphasized on the morality.Symbolism is one of the most important writing skills of literature,which endows the concrete images with abstract meanings to enlighten the reader’s imagination and to express a deeper meaning.He was once claimed as the pioneer of symbolism in American literature.He usually used symbolism in his works to analyze the "sin" of the humankind that is an eternal topic for us humankind.This paper mainly focuses on the analysis of the symbolism used in The Scarlet Letter,Hawthorne’s masterpiece.The Scarlet Letter is a novel with numerous symbolisms,which leaves deep imaginable and mysterious impression on people.The scene in the novel,the "A" is full of symbolism meanings.This paper mainly uses comprising and contrast,analogy to support the writer’s ideas.     

On Ambrose Bierce''''s Supernatural Story

There are two reasons that we categorize Ambrose Bierce as a Gothic writer:the pervasive deaththeme and his devotion to ghost story.Bierce is part of the strong current of pessimism which flowsall the way through the history of American literature.Within this profound and significant tradition,he shares,to a greater or lesser extent,a darker vision of America' s destiny with Melville,Hawthorne,Poe,Stephen Crane,William Faulkner and many contemporary novelists.From his turbulent,unhappy li…     

The Psychological Reflection of Hawthorn in the Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece, representing the height of Hawthorne’s literary genius. This thesis tries to reveal part of the author’s psychological activities, repressed feelings from his childhood from analyzing the main characters, especially Hester, the mother and Pearl, the daughter.     

Narrative Voices and Theme in The House of the Seven Gables

Under the instruction of the author's own confession in the preface of The House of the Seven Gables, it's easy for readers and critics to take the theme of this novel as past and present, stasis and change, aristocracy and democracy, and then to unfavor?ably judge Pycheon siblings, the representatives of the former, by Holgrave, that of the latter. However, by using two narrative voic?es simultaneously in the novel, an intradiegeitic one and an extradeigetic one, Hawthorne actually reveals his equal disapproval of both the Pycheon siblings and Holgrave. In the intradiegetic narrative, the narrative voice as a whole takes its side with Holgrave and reveals Pycheon siblings'isolation from the united struggle of mankind. In the extradiegetic narrative where the narrator ad?dresses directly to his readers, the narrator expresses a similar disapproval of Holgrave, who is equally isolated from the chain of hu?manity for lacking sympathy for his fellow beings. With the co-existence of two narrative voices, Hawthorne's true concern lies in calling attention to the equally dangerous situations of isolation from the chain of humanity:an isolation from the chain of progress and that of human sympathy.     

清教主义的叛逆者——海斯特·白兰 Hester As a Rebel Against Puritanism

Hester Prvnne is one of the main characters inNathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter.de-picting the conflict between individual and society--Puritan society of the 17th century,New England.From the very beginning till the end of the novel,Hester Prvnne,a woman of graceful nature,rebelledstrongly and continuously against the unjust puritan     

Differences of Phenomenological Reduction and Fusion of Horizons in Analyzing Literary Works——Analysis of Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown from the Perspectives of Phenomenological Reduction and Fusion of Horizons

Edmund Husserl’s first important move about phenomenology is the“phenomenological reduction”which means that we should reduce the external world to the contents of our consciousness alone. However, Hans-Georg Gadamer holds the opinion that all interpretation of a past work consists in a dialogue between past and present(Eagleton, T. 2009:62). Gadamer’s famous theory is fusion of horizons which means that the event of understanding comes about when our own“horizon”of historical meanings and assumptions“fuses”with the“horizon”within which the work itself is placed. The present thesis takes Hawthorne’s YoungGoodmanBrown as an example to illustrate different understandings when readers apply the two different theories.     

The Religious and Humane Significance of the Death of Two Heroes in Scarlet Letter

Most of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpieces are created with the theme of morality, and are used to analysis and re-veal“good and evil human nature”through the methods of profound symbolism and delicate...     

On Active Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter

Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.She is regarded as the representative of feminism.There are many explanations on the scarlet letter "A" on Hester’s bosom:ability,Angel… On the basis of deep reading of The Scarlet Letter,the author of this essay discusses a new meaning of the scarlet letter "A" - active.     

A Survey of Hawthorne''''s Attitude roward Good and Evil

Nathaniel Hwthome was born on Independence Day.1804,in salem.Massachusettes.He was a descendent of Puritan immigrants.His ancestor,John Hawthome,had beenone of hte judges at the salem witchcraft trials of 1692."Hthe family,like the seaport town,was on the decline.when his sea-captin father died in a foreign port.hawthome was only four years old.he lived in genteel poverty with his widowed mother and two young sisters.The family was filled with Puritan ideas,which made a notable impact on Hawthorne'slater literary creation.Inhis teens,Hawthome began to read widely.He read"eighteenth-century novelists like Henry fielding,Tobias Smollett,and Horace Walpole as well as contemporary writers like william godwin and sir walter scott,and forming an ambition to be a writer bimself.at seventeen Hawthorne went to Bowdoin College in Min ,where his classmates included longfellow,the poet,franklin piere,later president of the United states,and Horatio Bridge,who first appreciated his genius.     

Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter

Ⅰ.Introduction Based on the materials of the colonial New England, Hawthorne tried hisbest to portray people's ideological conflict and psychological movement.His ideological contentand artistic qualityare bestdemonstrated in his mas-terpiece The Scarlet…     

A Comparison of the Characters in The Scarlet Letter and The White Snake

The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world, while The White Snake is one of the most famous legends in China. This paper compares the two miserable heroines and reveals all the religions serve to the ruling power.     

Psychoanalysis and Symbolism——on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown

Nathaniel Hawthorne,a 19th-century American writer of novels and short stories,is considered an important representative of Puritanism;symbolism and romanticismin American literature.He was imbued with an inquiring imagination,a meditativemind,and an unceasing interest in the ambiguity of man’s being.He was interestedin the lonely and dark side of man,and in the man’s need to look into his own soul.Throughout his 1ife,he wrote many works which espoused the complexities and senseof guilt of the human being.On first perusal of his tales and romances,one cannot     

Psychological Effect and Foreign Language Teaching

Psychology of foreign language teaching is to study the foreign language teaching in the process of law of psychological activities, research foreign language educators and the educated mind, language knowledge, language skills, individual differences in foreign language teaching. It reveals the essence of learning process and the development of effective teaching methods of science. In foreign language teaching, the south wind effect can cultivate students’interest in learning; applying Piga Marion’s effect can make the students potential to obtain the development; using the Hawthorne effect can make the negative emotions by persuasion.     

The Psychological Reflection of Hawthorn in the Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece, representing the height of Hawthorne’s literary genius. This thesis tries to reveal part of the author’s psychological activities, repressed fee...