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【正文】 here where Providence has placed him. He dare not quit his post. At this crucial moment, in order to arouse him, Hester fervently resolves to buoy him up with her own energy. So Hester says continually and firmly. “Thou art crushed under the seven years? weight of misery, but thou shalt leave it all behind thee! Leave this wreck and ruin here where it bath happened. Begin all anew! The further is yet full of trail and success. Exchange this false life of shine for a true one. Preach! Write! Act! Do anything, save to lie down and die!” (Waite, 1956:p. 9) encouraged by Hester, the minister eventually resolves to flee with her. It is clear that as regarded Hester Prynne, the whole seven years of outlaw and ignominy has been litter other than a preparation for this very hour. In order to give Dimondale encouragement and hope further, Hester, without the least hesitation, takes the scarlet letter from her bosom and throws it off, and next, she heaves a long deep sign, in which the burden of shame and anguish departs from her spirit. Her sex, her youth, and the whole richness of her beauty, e back. 12 The achievement of feminism Hawthorne made in The Scarlet Letter In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is a deeply insulted and strong female full of spirit of resistance, the author gives her Puritan multiple identities mitted adultery, betrayal, the lover of respected minister, the mother of an illegitimate child, and let her to bear the social, religious and moral content. In face of difficulty and humiliation, she not doesn39。t bend, but shows the proud smile, leisurely look around her neighbors and local residents, showing a natural dignity and strength of character. In the front of the disgrace, she doesn?t give up life, no retreat, she counted, “no disgust in action, no submission”, it is this kind of selfaffirmation that supports the Hester Prynne to bear tremendous pain and suffering, she gradually difficultly to survive and have a new life surrounding by the respectators? blame. Hawthorne borrows Hester?s mouth to shout out of all the repressed women39。s voice, “Secular law is not the law that she need. She took one kind of the attitude of the freedom of thought to think about the women of all mankind. Her mind often emerges a serious question will be the happiest personal, even the women their life is really meaningful, Hester39。s vision what makes men rulers feel panic is” (Showalter, 1977:): First of all, is to knock down the whole social system, all over again. Second, the nature of a man or a man?s longterm geic habit, must transform. At that time, women were able to have approximate fair and reasonable status. Hawthorne deliberately shapes Hester as a thoughtful and strong woman not to succumb to old moral codes. So from Hester we seem to feel the Hawthorne?s illusion of equality between men and women. The Scarlet Letter is often seen as such a work: in the history of traditional literature as the center of the male social background, expression of the power of women. Although she cannot fight against the society by her meager forces, but it has shown her feminist consciousness against the puritan and the secular. Hester Prynne, with her spirit of revolt and kindness wakes up to a certain extent the patriots, gets the transformation of conventions, and promotes the progress of the society. Hester39。s courage and perseverance spirit embodies her pursuit of women39。s equal status, and he pursuit of basic human rights. She relies on the meager strength, wins the 13 freedom through her unremitting struggle, and bee a model of women. Her resistance to the life gives vast number of women, especially unfortunate women with a lot of enlightenment. She told that women should know how to survive in adversity, how to win their own s equal freedom rights and to realize the selfvalue of life. Of course, feminism is just to impact cultural traditions which take the male as the center of the society, rather than replace the male supremacy, not female supremacy to replace the patriarchal. The goal is the real equality between men and women, and women39。s value is the value of people, including men, all of the implementation. 5 Conclusion With the feminist approach to The Scarlet Letter, it is approved that Hawthorne expressed his feminist thoughts by disclosing the severe and somber rules together with laws imposed upon women through Hester39。s courageous rebel against the patriarchal society. This thesis places emphasis on the revelation of Hawthorne39。s feminist consciousness imbedded in the text through the interpretation of the protagonist Hester. In the novel, Hawthorne designed Hester to be a criminal of adultery and then showed his sympathy for Hester39。s misfortunes and plimented Hester for her rebellious actions. With the analysis of Hester39。s rebel at a marginal position and the subversion of the traditional binary opposition, Hawthorne39。s feminist consciousness is conveyed from the deep structure of his writing. What is more, the character Hester is the best witness to typify Hawthorne39。s consciousness. As an outcast of the society and a victim of the severe Puritan doctrines, power instead, she faced straight to the humiliate punishment and the defiance of her country men. Meanwhile, the selfprotection and selfreliance of Hester has highlighted an irresistible power for woman to gain equality. Furthermore, Hester39。s traits for her unusual beauty and her strong responsibility both for her lover Dimmesdale and for her little daughter Pearl constitute a ponent to her femininity and simultaneously mitted to Hawthorne39。s consciousness. Apart from that, the thesis demonstrates Hawthorne39。s efforts to balance two kinds of his contradictory consciousness, for one 14 thing, due to the influence of original sin and fata