《红字》是美国19世纪著名浪漫主义小说家霍桑的代表作。虽然霍桑的《红字》在一定程度上传承了美国的文学宗教传统,但是他对于女主人公个性特征的描绘却处处反映出了当时充满矛盾、极其复杂的一种宗教意识。我们不难从女主人公勇敢地追逐爱情并用自己的行动表达出的反抗精神当中看出,当时霍桑意识中的女权主义思想也是比较复杂的。本文试从《红字》着手,分析作品中的女权主义的体现。 “Scarlet Letter” is the representative work of Hawthorne, a famous 19th-century romantic novelist in the United States. Although Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” inherited the literary and religious traditions of the United States to some extent, his depiction of the heroine’s personality traits reflected the contradictory and extremely complicated religious consciousness at that time. It is not difficult for us to find the heroine courageously chasing love and using the rebellious spirit expressed by his actions. At that time, the feminist thinking in Hawthorne’s consciousness was rather complicated. This article tries from the “Scarlet Letter” to analyze the expression of feminism in the works.