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一、引言一八五零年霍桑发表了他的代表作《红字》(The Scarlet Letter),成为美国浪漫主义小说的代表作。《红字》以十七世纪的新英格兰为背景,描述了清教的残酷和它对故事中女主人公人性的扼杀。表面上看霍桑是在揭示十七世纪宗教制度对人性的迫害,特别是教会、夫权对女性的压迫。然而霍桑的目
I. Introduction In 1850, Hawthorne published his masterpiece “The Scarlet Letter” and became a masterpiece of American romantic novels. The Scarlet Letter, based on New England in the seventeenth century, describes the cruelty of Puritanism and its stifling of the heroine’s humanity in the story. On the surface, Hawthorne is revealing the persecution of human nature by religious systems in the seventeenth century, especially the oppression of women by the church and the husband. However, Hawthorne’s head