Interpretation of Hawthornes Feminist Consciousness and its Embodiment in the Character of Hester in The Scarlet Letter开题报告

 2022-07-30 14:59:34

1. 研究目的与意义

First of all, the symbolism in this book The Scarlet Letter has been studied a lot. In addition, as far as its moral is concerned, many researches have been conducted on the book as an adultery novel or a novel that promotes religious morality. Later, with the rise of feminism, there are many analyses about its feminism, but most of them show Hawthorne''''s praise of Hester''''s feminism, ignoring the contradiction of Hawthorne''''s feminist consciousness.

As a result, this paper is to pay attention not only to Hawthorne''''s positive portrayal of Hester, but also to Hawthorne''''s condemnation of feminism in the patriarchal society. To be specific, this paper shows that Hawthorne ideologically resists to the destruction of human nature by portraying Hester in a positive way, but because of the long-term influence of the patriarchal society and the bondage of Puritan tradition, he finally shapes Hester''''s fate as self-defeating and returning to society, from which it comes to the conclusion that Hawthorne#8217;s attitude towards feminism is contradictory in the book, and the conclusion of the study makes Hawthorne#8217;s feminist consciousness more complete and accurate, helping readers master this consciousness accurately and have more interest to read this book.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

This paper is to advocate a detailed interpretation of Hawthorne#8217;s feminist consciousness and its embodiment in the character of Hester in The Scarlet Letter. Based on the idea that Hawthorne praises Hester''''s feminism, this paper analyzes Hawthorne''''s positive portrayal of Hester in three aspects, her struggle towards Christian morals, her pursuit of individual emancipation and love freedom, and her positive attitude towards life, it also analyzes Hawthorne''''s condemnation of feminism in the patriarchal society in two aspects, the one is that Hawthorne understands the society with Calvinist ideas of good and evil and the other one is that Hawthorne shapes the fate of Hester as self-devoid and returning to society.

The key issue to be addressed in this paper is that Hawthorne not only affirms Hester#8217;s feminism and expresses respect for Hester, but also realizes the incompleteness of the feminist revolt and condemns it in the patriarchal society.

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3. 国内外研究现状

1. Introduction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter was written by the famous American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne and was published in 1850. The story revolves around the red letter 'A' on the character of Hester, telling her tortuous life experience in the patriarchal society. Although the book inherits the religious tradition of American literature, the author reflects the complex and contradictory religious consciousness in his works. In addition, by analyzing the image of Hester, it is not difficult to find that the author''''s feminist consciousness is also quite complex and contradictory.

2. Definition of Feminism

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4. 计划与进度安排

2022.11.10: Searching for the references and choosing the topic

2022.11.10-2022.11.30: Confirming the topic and writing the thesis proposal

2022.11.30-2022.3.17: Writing the first draft of the paper and finishing the mid-term inspection

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5. 参考文献

［1］Hawthorne, N. (2006). The Scarlet Letter. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

［2］Yu, Rong-fang. (2017). A brave female image: Interpretation of Hester in The Scarlet Letter from the perspective of feminism. Overseas English, (1), 176-177.

［3］Deng, Jia-qi. (2011). Hawthorne''''s Feminist Consciousness from The Scarlet Letter. Jiannan Literature, (07), 49-51.

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