The Triangle Figures in The Scarlet Letter

• 作者: 刘梦露 罗丽 龙亦凡
• 来源期刊: 英语广场：学术研究
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: PURITAN Personality RELIGIOUS FAITH TORTURE and SALVATION
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（4）
• 页码范围: 29-32
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: I106

摘要

Puritanism is a new breed of Christianity with a notoriously renowned propaganda for a frugal and reclusive lifestyle and a comparatively democratic membership in the religious creed. All the characters appearing in this novel belonged to this breed, living in the never-never land of a new continent devoid of the conventional forces＇ intervention. More specifically, Calvinism was the domineering religion whose core principles are the sacred pre-determinism and the omnipotence of God, requiring every earthly individual should obey this providence and be self-denied. The Scarlet Letter, a masterpiece of American prestigious writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, was delicately set in such a benighted epoch and manifested a gorgeous portrait of personality constituted by both discreetly religious conformity and spiritual liberty. In the twentieth century, Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter have continued to grow in esteem as literary criticism moved into university English departments and through waves of Freudians, semiologists, deconstructionists, and postmodernists （Bruce Daniels, 2004）. The eccentrically intertwined relationship among the three protagonists has been highly appreciated as an imperishable paragon, which was always been imitated but seldom surpassed. This passage aims to deconstruct the protagonists＇ personalities from a general perspective and ultimately draw a panoramic conclusion about the orota~onists＇ final destiny.