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1、,,,A,The,Scarlet,Letter,The writer,Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-l864)納撒尼爾·霍桑,,Nathaniel Hawthorne is the first great American writer of fiction and a master of symbolism. Human soul is the central subject of his major

2、 works, and the early Puritan history in Boston Massachusetts, especially his own family story offered the background for those works. In those works, he revealed his criticism of life, including The Scarlet Letter, The

3、House of the Seven Gables, Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Blithedale Romance, The Birthmark, and so on. And among them, The Scarlet Letter is considered as his masterpiece, which established him as the

4、leading American native novelist of the 19th century.,,,,,Introduction,,,,,,The pretty young lady tried to settle down in Boston with her old and ugly husband Chillinggworth, a scholar. But the latter did not appear for

5、years. During this time, Hester committed adultery with a local Minister Dimmesdale, and gave birth to a girl Pearl. Facing the terrible punishment, Hester refused to give her lover’s name away to protect him. Years late

6、r, the husband Chillinggworth came to the town and found out the whole truth, and he operated an horror revenge on Dimmesdale, with hiding his own true name. Yet, as the story going, Hester and Dimmesdale became sympathe