《红字》是由美国十九世纪小说家纳撒尼尔·霍桑撰写的一部长篇小说。故事以殖民地时期清教统治下的新英格兰生活为背景,当时清教徒远渡重洋来到美洲大陆,它们在英国最初是反抗罗马教皇专制(?)反对社会腐败风气的,他们注重理智,排斥感情,推崇理想,禁绝欲望,后来却发展到极端,不但迫害异端。甚至连妇女在街上微笑都要处以监禁,儿童嬉戏也要加以鞭打。他们强 The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a 19th-century American novelist. The story is based on the New England life under the colonial Puritan rule, when the Puritans traveled across the oceans to the American continent. In the United Kingdom, they initially opposed the Papal autocracy (?) Against the corrupt social atmosphere. They focused on reason and exclusion, Respected ideals, banned desire, but then developed to the extreme, not only persecuted heresy. Even women who are smiled in the street are imprisoned and children frolic. They are strong