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1、本科生毕业论文AnAnalysisofSymbolisminTheScarletLetter浅析《红字》中象征主义手法的运用姓 名学 号专 业指导教师2011年5月30日AnAnalysisofSymbolisminTheScarletLetterAThesisSubmittedtoForeignLanguagesDepartmentofHenanUniversityofEconomicsandLawinPartialFulfillmentoftheRequirementsfortheDegreeofBachelorofArtsB
2、yXXXSupervisor:XXXMay30,2011毕业论文开题报告所在系:外国语言文学系专业:英语学号:姓名:XXX毕业论文题目:AnAnalysisofSymbolisminTheScarletLetter1.AimandSignificance:NathanielHawthorneisagreatromanticnovelistinAmericainthenineteenthcentury.HeisdeeplyinfluencedbyPuritanismconsciousness,Transcendentalphilosoph
3、yandmysticism.Asaresult,insteadofgivingtheobjectivedescriptionoftheworld,healwaysgivesasymbolicmeaningtoanobjectivethingtoexpresshistrueunderstandingoftheworld,tryinghisbesttodiscoverthehiddenmeaningthroughthesymbols.Therefore,ifwewanttodeeplyunderstandHawthorne’swriting
4、style,itisessentialforustomakeathoroughresearchonthesymbolsandsymbolisminhisworks.TheScarletLetterisHawthorne’smasterpiece,whichmakeshimwellknownaroundtheworld,anditisalsooneofthemostremarkableworksinAmericanliterature.ThisnovelwithaneverlastingglamourmainlyliesinHawthor
5、ne’sskillfulhandlingofsymbolism.Fromthetitletothearrangementoftheplot,thentothedescriptionofthecharactersandobjects,theauthorusesonlyafewwordstoexpressrichmeanings,whichleavesusmuchroomforimagination.TheauthorofthepaperdevelopsadeepinterestinTheScarletLetterafterhavingfi
6、nishedreadingthisnovel.Whatstrikestheauthormostisthescarletletter“A”.Itrunsthroughthewholenovel,andmanifestsinvariousformsatdifferenttime,placesandscenes.Furthermore,themeaningofthescarletletter“A”becomesricherandmorecomplicatedastheplotfurtherdevelops.2.MainMethodsandWa
7、ysofStudies:TheresearchintothesymbolisminTheScarletLettercanmakereadersdeeplyunderstandHawthorne’swritingstyle.First,bywayofexploringthevarioussymbolicmeaningsofthescarletletter“A”todifferentcharactersandthechangingsymbolicmeaningsofthescarletletter“A”atdifferenttime,pla
8、cesandscenes,thethesiscanhelpreadershaveabetterunderstandingoftherichmeaningsoftheletter“A”inthenovelan