《红字》读书笔记

这是一篇关于《红字》的读书笔记，讲述了《红字》的作者、背景信息、主要人物、情节、文学的功能、主题等方面。

The Scarlet Letter

• Author
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • American romantic and psychological novelist(19th century)
• Background Information
  • Social: The First National Women's Conference
    • Women's right
  • The author
    • Secular limit
      • focus on composing
• Main Characters
  • Hester Prynne
    • young, beatiful, brave, a rebel of puritan, warm-hearted, pursue happiness
  • Arthur Dimmesdale(Minister)
    • young, handsome, a devoted servant of God, gloomy,selfish,waek-minded
  • Roger Chillingworth(Scholar)
    • old, ugly, deformed shoulders, distoreted soul
  • Pearl(Hester's daughter)
    • a symbol of hope, innocent, lovely, lively, smart, moody, mischievous, brave
• Plot
  • Hester
    • Adultery
      • Dimmelsdale
  • Hester refused to named her lover
    • sentenced as a adulteress
  • Chillingworth(Hester's husband)
    • revenge himself on Dimmelsdale
  • Dimmelsdale
    • physical and mental tortue
• Literature Feature
  • Symbolism
  • Metaphor
  • Psychologival description
  • Comparison and contrast
• Theme
  • Cruel reality of the colonies in the 17th century
  • moral hypocrisy of Puritanism
  • understanding and sympathy for the nature of human nature
  • love
  • "good"and "evil"