罪与救赎:霍桑《红字》的基督教伦理解读  

Sin and Redemption: Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter from a Christian Ethical Perspective

作　　者：苏欲晓[1] 

机构地区：[1]厦门大学外文学院英语系

出　　处：《外国文学研究》2007年第4期114-120,共7页Foreign Literature Studies

摘　　要：与清教传统有着复杂关系的美国作家霍桑,其代表作《红字》向来为国内众多读者及评论者解读为对清教伦理及其所源出的基督教伦理的控诉和鞭挞。笔者对《红字》进行重新解读,认为无论是从主题、人物刻画、叙事声音还是对清教社会的揭露都不能将该作品视为对基督教伦理的抨击,相反,作品中多处折射的恰恰是圣经所体现的基督教伦理核心:人的普遍罪性以及对这罪性的悲悯与救赎。The American author Nathaniel Hawthorne had an intricate relationship with the tradition of American Puritanism, with which both he and his Puritan ancestors were imbued in character and in belief, and yet his representative work The Scarlet Letter has always received an all-too- simple, one-dimensional critical response from most Chinese readers and critics, rendering it a bitter demonstration of and outright protest against the dehumanizing role of Puritan ethics and, by extension, that of Christian ethics in general. This paper attempts at a new reading of this muchmisinterpreted work. By analyzing the novel＇ s dominant themes, the development of its major characters, the narrative voice, and even its honest criticism of the Puritan community, this paper is intended to reveal that, instead of assailing the Christian ethics, the novel expresses what is central to the ethical values based on the Christian Scripture： the universality of sin and guilt in spite of their various disguise, and the pity on and redemption of the human individuals as well as communities equally enslaved by sin.

关 键 词：《红字》 基督教伦理 清教 罪 救赎 

分 类 号：I712[文学—其他各国文学]