【正文】 r Prynne Hester Prynne is a brave woman but in contrast, Arthur Dimmesdale is lack of courage. Women begin to realize their own feelings but men are still at the back of morality. They dare not to break the principle. Feminism is encouraging women such as Hester Prynne. Rooger Chillingworth, her husband is a well learned man, but his mind is filled with hate and he just wants to break their secret love. He changes his name and always tortures the clergyman and wants them pay for their immoral behaviors. If Hester Prynne is a woman who has feminism, then Rooger Chillingworth is a man who is against the process of 濟(jì)寧學(xué)院畢業(yè)論文 第 6 頁 共 21 頁 women?s position and activities. He is a man who has an outdated thought and reluctant to accept new ideas. And he is afraid to accept because he should stick to morality. Feminism is just one point to see this story, but it is a really good point to well understand the character of Hester Prynne and her actions. If we know feminism well and with the sense of feminism to see this woman, we will understand her choice and her bravery. Feminism is just at the first stage of development and little people accept this concept. Hester Prynne is a lucky dog to have this understandings and foresight. Just because there are women like Hester Prynne that feminism can develop and be accepted by so many people. Feminism can surround the whole world。 濟(jì)寧學(xué)院畢業(yè)論文 第 1 頁 共 21 頁 The Analysis of the Scarlet Letter Introduction In order to analyze Scarlet Letter successfully, knowing something about the author and the background of contemporary writing is important Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on the fourth of July1804. His father died on the sea when he was just four years old. He grew up under the care of his mother. Young Hawthorn was aware of the misdeeds of his ancestor, because some of his ancestors were men of prominence in the Puritan the theocracy of seventh century. Also he knew the evil at the heat of human being and this led to his success on his writing. Scarlet Letter made him known and then he began writing. The House of the Seven Gables and Young Goodman Brown are also gained great famous for him. He was writing even when he was going to die. He is a great writer not just in America but the whole world. When we mention America literature of nieenth century, the first thing appeared in our mind is Romanticism. America was burgeoning into a political economical and cultural independence at that time. This gave Americans a romantic feeling and Romanticism came into being with its own features. American Romanticism writings intend to edify more than entertain and Puritan influence over American literature is noticeable. Transcendentalism is the summit of Romanticism, but the writings of Hawthorn are quite different from transcendentalism. He is object to the positive attitude toward human being which is favored by the transcendentalists. He is full of sense of evil, so nearly all of his works are related to sin and evil. Scarlet Letter is just such a famous work。 he thinks sins must be punished. 濟(jì)寧學(xué)院畢業(yè)論文 第 2 頁 共 21 頁 Chapter one: Analyze This Story from the View of Feminism Feminism is one important aspect of this work, but what is feminism? It is hard to know the source of feminism or to give it a definition, but we can know the basic concept of feminism, that is men are given more rights than women, in another word, men and women are treated unequally. Feminism is just to find out the reasons and to solve these questions and unequal. From the past time to now, women?s social and family position is lower than men?s. Women are badly treated by their husbands and must obey their parents..It is not a question of America, but a question of the world. Women began to have the feeling of fighting for this unequal at about eighteenth century. That was because the economy was booming at that time and they had more chances to know the world. They wanted to fight for the equal pay, equal education and equal rights at political events like votes. A famous French women writer describes women?s position as the “second sex”. That means women are treated unequally and they even have no rights to say “No”. The only duty for them is to take care of babies and their husbands. Even though every country has this problem not just limited to America, there are many different kinds of activities because of the differences of history and law. It also appears different kinds of feminism, like radical feminism, separatist feminism and so on. Radical feminism is favoring that the power of father is the root and this concept is quite popular among women. But there are also people who are not accept this concept. They think the problem of women have nothing to do with the power of father, in another word, they have no direct relations with each other. Now feminism has led to many other problems. Many people take advantages of “feminism” to do something bad. They take it over serious and has lost its basic concept. 濟(jì)寧學(xué)院畢業(yè)論文 第 3 頁 共 21 頁 Prynne Struggles for Her True Love. At the beginning of the story, when Hester Prynne was being put to prison, there is an aging man in the crowds. The author uses different adjectives in describing these two men. Hester Prynne is young and beautiful but the man is old and ugly. These two people get married and bee a couple. Why such a young beautiful women chooses an aging and ugly man as her husband, the author doesn?t tell directly, but we can feel there must have some secrets. What Hester Prynne can get from him is not true love but money. This story is a tragedy from the beginning, such a young beautiful wife doesn?t belonging to him at least from her feeling. Hester Prynne is a woman who needs true love and find a man who really understand and c