美国十九世纪上半叶重要的浪漫主义小说家霍桑在其代表作《红字》中以丰富的想象和奇特的象征手法表现主题 ,并善于使用深入、细腻的心理分析来揭示人物丰富、复杂的内心世界 ,成功地塑造出一个倍受侮辱而又充满反抗精神的坚强的女性——海丝特·白兰。同时透过小说中主要人物的灵魂沉浮史 ,宣扬了作者的宗教观念与人生哲理 Hawthorne, an important romantic novelist in the United States in the first half of the 19th century, has expressed his theme with rich imagination and peculiar symbolism in his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter. He is also good at using in-depth and exquisite psychoanalysis to reveal the rich and complex characters The inner world succeeded in shaping a strong, insulted woman full of resistance - Hester Prynne. At the same time, through the ups and downs of the soul of the main characters in the novel, the author’s religious concept and philosophy of life