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1、绵阳师范学院本科生毕业论文开题报告学生姓名院系外国语学院年级论文方向指导老师日期I.TitleOntheSymbolisminTheScarletLetter论《红字》中的象征手法(自选)II.Aim,significanceandcurrentresearchesNathanielHawthorneisagreatromanticnovelistinAmericainthenineteenthcentury.HeisdeeplyinfluencedbyPuritanismConsciousness,TranscendentalPhilosophyandMysticis
2、m,asaresult,insteadofgivingtheobjectivedescriptionoftheworld;healwaysgivesasymbolicmeaningtoanobjectivethingtoexpresshistrueunderstandingoftheworld,tryinghisbesttodiscoverthehiddenmeaningthroughthesymbols.Therefore,ifwewanttodeeplyunderstandHawthorne’swritingstyle,itisessentialforustomak
3、eathoroughresearchonthesymbolsandsymbolisminhisworks.TheScarletLetterisHawthorne’smasterpiece,whichmakeshimwellknownaroundtheworld,anditisalsooneofthemostremarkableworksinAmericanliterature.ThisnovelwithaneverlastingglamourmainlyliesinHawthorne’sskillfulhandlingofsymbolism.Fromthetitleto
4、thearrangementoftheplot,thentothedescriptionofthecharactersandobjects,theauthorusesonlyafewwordstoexpressrichmeanings,whichleavesusmuchroomforimagination.IdevelopadeepinterestinTheScarletLetterafterIhavefinishedreadingthisnovel.Whatstrikesmemostisthescarletletter“A”.Itrunsthroughthewhole
5、novel,andmanifestsinvariousformsatdifferenttime,placesandscenes.Furthermore,themeaningofthescarletletter“A”becomesricherandmorecomplicatedastheplotfurtherdevelops.Besides,owingtothedifferentviewpointsofobservers.…………III.MainIdeasNathanielHawthorneisagreatromanticnovelistinAmericainthenin
6、eteenthcentury.TheScarletLetterisgenerallyacknowledgedashismostremarkablemasterpiece,whichmakeshimwellknownaroundtheworld.Inthenovel,Hawthorneshowsingenuityinusingartistictechniques,especiallyinhandlingsymbolism.InTheScarletLetter,symbolismrunsthroughthewholenovelwheretheletter“A”,thefou
7、rmaincharacters’names,Pearlandthenaturalenvironmentareallendowedwithdeepsymbolicmeanings.Especiallytheletter“A”,notonlydoesitmanifestinvariousformsatdifferenttime,placesandscenes,butitalsohasdifferentsymbolicmeaningstodifferentpeople.Besides,thesymbolicmeaningofthescarlet