“爱和死一样都是命中注定的,无法躲避,”(高尔基)两个内涵截然相反的概念在面对现实生活时却常被作家紧密地结合在一起,用来表达现实与理想的矛盾。矛盾的结果往往并不是理想超越了现实得以实现,而是现实压抑了理想使理想走向毁灭。然而作家所需要的正是这种在殉葬中获得新生的启示,从而实现一种跨越时空的必然性的理想。小说《红字》即表达了这种爱的悲剧。 “Like death, love is destined and can not be avoided.” (Gorky) Two concepts with opposite connotations are often closely combined with writers in the face of real life to express the contradiction between reality and idealism. The result of contradictions is often not ideal beyond the reality can be achieved, but reality depresses the ideal so that the ideal toward destruction. What the writer needs, however, is the revelation of gaining new life in sacrificial burial, thus realizing an ideal of transcending the inevitability of time and space. The novel “Scarlet Letter” expresses this tragedy of love.