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1、郑州大学西亚斯国际学院 试析红字的女主人公An Analysis of the Heroine in The Scarlet Letter 姓 名学 籍 号专 业英语级 别系 别国际教育学院指导教师 填表日期： 年 4 月 20 日An Analysis of the Heroine in The Scarlet Letter试析红字的女主人公ID NO. 20061103137Yuan Tian (Jane Yuan)Submitted as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Eng
2、lishSIAS International College of Zhengzhou UniversityApril 20, 2010Faculty Advisor: Zhang FengweiAcknowledgementI would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of the thesis.My deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to Ms. Zhang Fengwei, my supervisor,
3、for her constant encouragement and guidance. Without her illuminating instruction, insightful criticism and guidance, the completion of this thesis would not have been possible.Second, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Ms. Han Ximiao, who led me into the world of literature. I am als
4、o greatly indebted to the professors and teachers at the Department of Foreign Languages, from whose devoted teaching and enlightening lectures I have benefited a lot and academically prepared for the thesis.Last my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confi
5、dence in me all through these years. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who gave me their help and helped me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis. AbstractNathaniel Hawthorne (18041864), a novelist and short story writer, is an important
6、figure in the history of American literature. The scarlet letter, Hawthornes masterpiece, tells a simple and dramatic story. It was very popular and widely read. It has been considered to be the most famous work of Hawthorne. As for the heroine Hester Prynne who suffered humiliation in this novel, s
7、ome think that she possesses a courage which dares to rebel. Some hold that Hester is the weak who submits to fate. This paper attempts to analyze the compromise and rebellion of Hester Prynne and the reasons of dual character of Hester Prynne. This thesis mainly consists of four chapters. The first
8、 chapter is an introduction. The second chapter mainly focuses on the dual character of Hester Prynne which includes compromise and rebellion. The third chapter touches on the reasons of dual character of Hester Prynne from the perspectives of reasons of Hester Prynnes compromise and reasons of Hest
9、er Prynnes rebellion. The fourth chapter is a conclusion. Keywords: Hester Prynne, compromise, rebellion, reason 摘 要纳撒尼尔霍桑（1804-1864）作为美国小说家以及短篇小说作家，是美国文学史上的一个重要人物。他的代表作红字讲述了一个简单而又富有戏剧性的故事,但却是一部非常流行并被广泛阅读的小说，被认为是霍桑最著名的作品。对于小说中的这位饱受凌辱的女主人公海斯特白兰，一些人认为她具有一种敢于反抗的勇气；一些人则认为她是屈从命运的弱者。这篇论文主要分析海斯特的妥协性和反抗性这一双
10、重性格以及它形成的原因。本文主要由四章构成。第一章是简介。第二章论述了海斯特妥协性与反抗性并存的双重性格。第三章从构成海斯特的妥协性和反抗性的两种性格的原因角度论述了海斯特双重性格形成的根源。第四章是结论。关键词：海斯特白兰，妥协性，反抗性，原因Outline I Introduction 1 II Dual Character of Heroine Hester Prynne.22.1 Hester Prynnes Compromise.2 2.2 Hester Prynnes Rebellion.4 III Reasons of Dual Character of Hester Prynn
11、e.8 3.1 Reasons of Hester Prynnes Compromise.8 3.2 Reasons of Hester Prynnes Rebellion.9IV Conclusion.10Bibliography.12An Analysis of the Heroine of the Scarlet LetterI Introduction Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864), a novelist and short story writer, is an important figure in the history of American l
12、iterature. He attended Bowdoin College (18211824). In the school his friends included Longfellow and Franklin Pierce, who became the 14th president of the United States. As is well known, whatever society it is, especially the class society, it is full of conflicts. Nathaniel Hawthorne who lived in
13、the 19th century in America possessed a deeply Puritan consciousness and New England Transcendentalism. This kind of background determined that Hawthorne was a suspicious person. He realized that Puritanism had greatly suppressed the human nature and brought destruction to peoples life, but he could not get rid of such cultural traditions which influenced him imperceptibly. Hawthornes best-known works include The Scarlet Letter and The House of The Seven Gables. Of the two famo
