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1、The Scarlet Letter,19th century American Romanticism Hawthorne's novel,-----Nathaniel Hawthorne,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Novelist and short story writer, a central figure in the American Renaissance. Nathaniel Hawthorne&

2、#39;s best-known works include The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). Like Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne took a dark view of human nature.,Nathaniel Hawthorne,,“No man for an

3、y considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”(from The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XX "The Minister in a Maze"),St

4、ory Synopsis,.,The Scarlet Letter told a story of a puritan woman Hester Prynne who was punished to wear a scarlet A which stood for the crime of adultery. The pretty young lady tried to settle down in Boston with her ol

5、d and ugly husband Chillingworth, a scholar. But the latter did not appear for years. During this time, Hester committed adultery with a local Minster Dimmesdale, and gave birth to a girl Pearl. Facing the terrible punis

6、hment, Hester refused to give her lover’s name away to protect him.,Story Synopsis,Years later, the husband Chillingworth came to the town and found out the whole truth, and he operated an horror revenge on Dimmesdale, w

7、ith hiding his own true name. Yet, as the story going, Hester and Dimmesdale became sympathetic figures, while Chillingworth was a devil at last.,Book review and summary,The Scarlet Letter represents the height of H