一、简介《红字》是19世纪美国浪漫主义作家霍桑的长篇小说,曾被1954年诺贝尔文学奖得主美国作家海明威列人“提高艺术水平的文学书目”。小说虽以两百多年前的殖民地时代的美洲为题材,但揭露的却是19世纪资本主义发展时代美国社会法典的残酷、宗教的欺骗和道德的虚伪。主人公海丝特被写成了崇高道德的化身。她不但感化了表里不一的丁梅斯代尔,同时也在感化着充满罪恶的社会。她用自己的“崇高的道德和助人精神”,把象征耻辱的红色的A字(Adultery:通奸)变成了道德与光荣的象征。小说《圣徒传》是加拿大作家尼诺·里奇的处女作和成名作,作家同样在小说中成功地塑造了一位富于抗争、具有反叛精神的女性形象——克里斯蒂那,曾有评论把她与《红字》中的海丝特相媲美,堪称加拿大的《红字》。 I. Introduction “The Scarlet Letter” is a novel written by Hawthorne, a 19th-century American romantic writer who was “literary bibliography of raising artistic level” by American writer Hemingway in 1954, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although the novel captures the theme of the Americas in the colonial era two hundred years ago, it exposes the cruelty of the American social code and the deception of religion and moral hypocrisy in the era of capitalist development in the nineteenth century. The protagonist Hester was written as the embodiment of lofty morality. Not only did she influence Dummesdale, a mixed-race society, she was also evoking a society full of evil. With her “noble morality and helpfulness,” she turned Adultery, the symbol of shame, into a symbol of morality and honor. The novel “The Saints” is the debut and fame of the Canadian writer Nino Ritchie who also succeeded in fashioning an anti-revolutionary and rebellious female figure in the novel - Christina, who commented She is comparable to Hester in The Scarlet Letter and is called Canada’s “Scarlet Letter.”