资源描述：
《The Sin and Atonement of Hester Prynne10》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在学术论文-天天文库。
1、TheSinandAtonementofHesterPrynneinTheScarletLetterI.IntroductionInonemorecentury,thenumberofthecommentaryonTheScarletLetterisinnumerable.Alotofcriticshaveanalyzedthenovelfromdifferentaspects.However,thisworkisseldomanalyzedfromthepointofviewofsinandat
2、onementforsin.HawthorneisfarfamiliarwiththeBible.HelivesinanagewhentheliteratureisdominatedbyChristianity.AlotofwesternauthorstakeBibleasoneofthesourcesoftheircreations.Ascreatinghiswork,HawthorneischieflyinfluencedbytheBible.InTheScarletLetterhefully
3、expresseshisthoughtsbyconcerningthetopicof”sinandatonementforsin”.Asisknowntoall,writerstakeliteratureasawaytoexpresstheirconceptionsandthoughtsonthesocietyinwhichhelives,onnatureinwhichhumanconstituteanelement,andonhisfellowbeings.Asanauthor,Hawthorn
4、eisnotanexception,sohisthoughtswillbereflectedbyhisworks,andthusTheScarletLetterisanalyzedfromthispointofview.A.IntroductiontoHawthorne’sLifeNathanielHawthorne（1804-1864）,isanAmericannovelistandshortstorywriter,acentralfigureintheAmericanRenaissance,w
5、hoseworksaredeeplyconcernedwiththeethicalproblemsofsin,punishment,andatonement.Hisbest -knownworksincludeTheScarletLetter(1850)andTheHouseoftheSevenGambles(1851).LikeEdgarAllanPoe,NathanielHawthornetookadarkviewofhumannature.HewasborninSalem,Massachus
6、etts,July4,1804.Hisancestorswereprominentintheaffairsofthecolony.JohnHawthornewasoneofthejudgeswhotriedthewitchesin1620,andJohnHawthornewasamemberofthedignifiedschoolcommitteeofSalemin1796.Hawthorne'sfather,ashipcaptaindiedinaforeignlandwhenhissonwaso
7、nlyfouryearsold;hismotherlivedforfortyyearsafterherhusband’sdeath.ThepeopleofSalemlookedonNathanielasalazyandveryqueerboy.Hegrewupinauniquesolitude.Duringtheseyearsofseclusion,Hawthorneacquiredthehabitofkeepingsilentonalloccasions,andreadingafewbooksf
8、requentlyandthoroughly.TheNewgateCalendarmusthavesuppliedhimwithmanysubtlesuggestionsforhislaterwritingsonsinandcrime,forinalmostallofhisproductionshisimaginationistingedwiththisoldPuritanicalphilosophyandtheology.HeenteredBowdoinCollegein1821
