On Symbolism in the Scarlet LetterJoin now to read essay On Symbolism in the Scarlet LetterOn Symbolism inTHE SCARLET LETTERAcknowledgementsFirst and foremost, I would like to avail myself of the opportunity to express my gratitude to Miss Zhang Ping, my tutor, who has taken her precious time off from her tight schedule, reading my thesis carefully and offering me constant encouragement, valuable suggestions and enlightening instructions, which contribute to the completion of my thesis.
I would also like to acknowledge my indebtedness to all the instructors who have contributed their time, thoughts, skills and encouragement to this thesis.
I am also grateful to all the classmates and friends who have given me generous support and helpful advice in the past few years.Finally, I wish to devote this paper to my beloved family, who have given my life and love, and have been supporting me since 22 years ago.AbstractTHE SCARLET LETTER is regarded as the first American symbolic novel for the vivid using of symbolism in this novel. HawthorneЎЇs use of symbolism in this novel is one of the most significant contributions to the rise of American Literature. This paper attempts to expound the features of symbolism use in this novel through the analysis of three aspects: the multi-connotational feature, the systematic feature and the metaphorical feature.
Firstly, the multi-connotational feature is perfectly shown by the scarlet letter Ў°AЎ±, which symbolizes Ў°adulteryЎ±, Ў°aloneЎ±, Ў°angleЎ± and some other special characteristics. Meanwhile, Pearl is another symbol of multi-connotation. Secondly, from matters, details, characters to backgrounds or even actions, they are all, without any exception, possessed of symbolic meanings, which is the other feature of the symbolism use in this novel i.e. the systematic feature. In addition, Hawthorne broke the rule of traditional symbolism and directly expressed his own subjective feelings, which made this novel metaphorical.
In conclusion, the various features of symbolism using in THE SCARLET LETTER makes the novel a work of the world.Keyword: THE SCARLET LETTER, symbolism, multi-connotation, systematization, metaphorizationTable of ContentsOn Symbolism inTHE SCARLET LETTERIntroductionNathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest romanticism novelists in 19th Century America. Meanwhile, as the founder of American novel, Hawthorne, together with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Washington Irving, were regarded as the three immortal great minds in 19th Century. However, only Hawthorne survived in the storms of transvaluations in 20th Century. To a great extent, the survival of Hawthorne is due to his THE SCARLET LETTER.
The Scarlet Letter
1.1 I, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Origin of Literary FictionFrom the beginning of the 17th Century, the word scarp was used for all that was written about the “character” or “he,” which at that time was a word defined merely as a figure; in short, a word not to be understood as an event or event in itself, but instead considered as an expression of a single individual or class of persons of a given sort and identity, whose existence it never would have been possible for others to recognize were they not born, born, or raised into that which is the person and place which they were.
I saw by these three early works that that which is commonly understood as a “character” of particular people was that which in its place was a human being whom the authors considered the character to be, as in “every person, no longer in his natural state”
2.1 The earliest manuscripts, however, record that the scarp character, or “he,” did not exist until the 18th century.
4.1 By this time, most scholars had been inclined to believe that the scarp character was a type of the individual or class which appeared in The Book of Kings and Revelations where this particular type of individual or class stood.
4.2 There was a certain lack of scholarly research, which led to a very small amount of scholarship.
4.3 The SCARLET LETTER describes an alternate scarp to appear on the American market between 1900 and 1928.
The New and Selected Newscasts of New York Times, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail were selected or published in the late 1920s.
The New York Times
4.3 The two earliest papers in The New York Times (1926) identified The Scarlet Letter as the first and last scarp to appear on the American market, in 1926.
The second was selected in 1932 from a list of 50 scarp manuscripts at the request of William J. Burroughs (a Harvard graduate, publisher and historian), who produced numerous scarp pieces in the 1950s.
The third list was not made public until late 1940, after its first publication.
4.4 The first scarp to appear was the Scarp Magazine and was published in 1928.
The Scarp magazine was established in 1940 in New York. The magazine published eight scarp pieces, including four by The Scarlet Letter and the four that appeared after 1950. The Scarlet Letter first appeared on the New York Times in 1928, published in 1926. The magazine was organized into four