美国小说家纳撒尼尔.霍桑的杰作《红字》的女主人公海丝特.白兰身处十七世纪新英格兰的清教社会,她因爱而犯下大逆不道的通奸罪,但爱成为她反抗清教社会压迫、追求个人权利的最顽强的方式。直至她成为一个有独立思想的女性,爱始终是海丝特女性意识最根本的出发点和归属点。 Hester Prynne, the heroine of the American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter,” lives in the Puritan society of New England in the seventeenth century. She committed tremendous adultery because of love, but love became her Protest socialism oppression, the pursuit of individual rights, the most tenacious way. Until she became a woman with independent thoughts, love is always the most fundamental point and point of origin of Hester’s consciousness.