作为一部美国19世纪的经典小说,纳撒尼尔·霍桑创作的《红字》围绕女主人公海斯特·白兰与牧师丁梅斯代尔通奸这条伦理主线,细腻描述了男女主角在触犯伦理规范后的伦理状态,融贯了作者关于人性、人道、人伦的思考,是一部讲述伦理道德的寓言。本文试图在文学伦理学批评的语境下,解析女主角海斯特·白兰面对的伦理困境以及她在清教伦理环境下最终作出的伦理抉择,以此还原深刻沉重的伦理话题所 As a classic novel of the 19th century in the United States, the “Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which centers on the ethical line of adultery by the heroine Hyster Prynne and the Priest Dimmesdale, The ethical post-ethical state, which integrates the author’s thinking on human nature, humanity and human relations, is an allegory about morality. This article attempts to analyze the ethical predicament Hester Prynne confronts her and the ultimate ethical choice she has made in the ethical environment of the Puritan under the context of literary ethics criticism so as to restore the profound and profound ethical topics