美国19世纪杰出的浪漫主义小说家纳撒尼尔·霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne)(1804—1864)的代表作《红字》写作风格鲜明,除常被人们谈论的象征及心理描写之外,反讽的运用也对小说中环境的描述及人物塑造起到了很大作用。“反讽”(irony)一词源于古希腊语,在希腊喜剧中有一个被称为eiron的角色,惯常假装无知,在自以为高明的对手面前说傻话,最终战胜对手。现代文学 In the style of the writing “The Scarlet Letter”, a masterpiece of the famous 19th-century romantic novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), the style of writing is very clear. Apart from the symbolic and psychological descriptions that people often talk about, the use of irony It also plays an important role in describing the environment and characters in the novels. The irony originated in ancient Greek, with a character known as eiron in Greek comedies, pretending to be ignorant, talking foolishly in the face of a smart opponent, and eventually defeating his opponent. modern literature