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1、徐千 2011521065 郑小莉 2011521046 周舒珊 2011521061 叶森培 2011521057,contents,The brief introduction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter and Puritanism Biblical Prototypes in The Scarlet Letter Conclusion,r. Heideggers Experiments,(18041864),4,Born July 4, 1804,entered Bowdoin Col
2、lege in 1821,first work Fanshawe, in 1828,marrying Sophia Peabody in 1842,Scarlet Letter in 1850,Died May 19, 1864,Biography:,5,A family with a long Puritan tradition His father, a ship captain, died of yellow fever at sea when Nathaniel was only four. His mother became overly protective and pushed
3、him toward relatively isolated pursuits. Hawthornes childhood left him shy and bookish, which molded his life as a writer.,Family Background:,6,American novelist Short story writer A central figure in the American Renaissance Greatest Romance writer Pioneering psychological novelist Moral novelist,I
4、dentity :,7,Style typical romantic writer,a man of literary craftsmanship，extraordinary in,the use of symbol,the use of ambiguity,revelation of characters psychology,the use of supernatural,The symbol serves as a weapon to attack reality. It can be found everywhere in his writing,to keep the reader
5、in the world of uncertainty multiple point of view,Major Works :o f moral choices. 1. The Scarlet Letter红字 2. The House of the Seven Gables七个尖角阁的房子 3. The Blithedale Romance福谷传奇 4. The Marble Faun 玉石雕像 5. Twice-Told Tales 故事重述 6. Snow Image and Other Stories雪人及其他故事重述,Hawthornes influence,He was a ma
6、jor American writer and the greatest writer living in the 19th century. He was regarded as a pioneer of psychological novelist and a master of symbolism. With the publication of The Scarlet Letter, he secured his position in the literary history forever, and he influenced many writers in his time an
7、d later generations, such as Herman Melville, Henry James, William Dean Howells and William Faulkner etc.,Criticism,“Nathaniel Hawthornes reputation as a writer is very pleasing fact, because his writing is not good for anything, and this is a tribute to the man. ”-Ralph Waldo Emerson “The fine thin
8、g in Hawthorne is that he cared for the deeper psychology, and that, in his way, he tried to become familiar with it.”-Henry James,Puritanism influenced Hawthorne greatly. The spirit of Puritanism could be seen in nearly all his works, such as evil, Calvin system, and spiritualization and so on play
9、ed an important role in almost all his works.,Hawthornes points of view and subject (1),a. He seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil all his life. He had a black vision of life and human beings. In almost every book he wrote, he discussed sin and evil. Evil exists in the human heart (“Ear
10、ths Holocaust浩劫”) Everyone possesses some evil secret (“Young Goodman Brown”) Everyone seems to cover up his innermost evil (“The Ministers Black Veil”) Evil seems to be mans birthmark胎记. (The Birthmark),b. To Hawthorne sin will get punished. The House of the Seven Gables is an appalling fictional v
11、ersion of Hawthornes belief that the “wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.” (一代的恶行会延续至后代） c. One source of evil that Hawthorne was concerned most is overreaching intellect. His intellectual characters are usually villains罪犯, dreadful because devoid缺乏 of fellow feeling.,Hawth
12、ornes points of view and subject (2),d. He complained about “the poverty of materials” in America. He took a great interest in history and antiquity. e. Because of “the poverty of materials” and his Puritan prudence节俭, he was convinced that romance was the predestined注定的 form of American Narratives.
13、 Many of his works are inspired by Puritan New England.,The Scarlet Letter,It is a full-length novel . The theme of the novel is the colonial times two hundred years ago. It exposes the cruelty of Social statute , the deception欺诈 of religious and the hypocrisy of moral in 19th century.,Main characte
14、rs,a. Hester Prynne 海丝特白兰 b. Arthur Dimmesdale 阿瑟丁梅斯代尔 c. Roger Chillingworth 罗杰奇灵沃斯 d. Pearl 珠儿,The Scarlet Letter and Puritanism,The Puritans were a group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries, including, but not limited to, English Calvinists. Puritanism in this sense was founded
15、by John Calvin from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England.,Christianity,Catholics,Protestants,Calvinists,Methodists,Anglicans,Baptists,Puritans,Hawthome was born in a declining noble family in Salem, Massachuset
16、ts, New England. Salem, his hometown, has ever been the place where Puritanism forces were rampant and several generations of his ancestors were fanatic Puritans; therefore, the Puritanism thought has a deep-rooted effect on Hawthome.,The novel The Scarlet Letter by Hawthome reflects the Calvinistic thought of Original Sin. It also expresses Hawthomes devout and doubtful attitude to ethics and morality of Puritanis
