出版于1850年的《红字》是美国19世纪浪漫主义作家纳撒尼尔·霍桑的第一部长篇小说。这部作品使他在美国,甚至世界文坛上获得盛名。霍桑在小说中对人物的成功塑造,对人性的深刻描绘与揭示,以及对人如何从异化状态中解脱出来的思考与探索,使这部文学作品在当代仍保持着旺盛的生命力,文学评论界对它的研究亦是方兴未艾。在这部小说中, The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, was the first novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a 19th-century American romantic writer. This work made him famous in the United States and even the world literary world. Hawthorne’s successful portrayal of characters in the novel, the profound depiction and revealing of human nature, and his reflection and exploration of how man freed himself from the alienation state kept this literary work still alive in the contemporary era. Literary criticism The research on it is also in the ascendant. In this novel,