The Scarlet Letter is a psychological romance,which is full of delicate inward description.Based on the author Hawthorne’s excellent effectiveness in the psychological description,this thesis uses Sigmund Freud’s th...
This essay analyzes the two Christians, who are Reverend Master Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Vicar General Claude Frollo in Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris. These two men have many simi...
Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850) is a unique work. Since the time of its publication, various papers have been published that deal with various aspects of Dimmesdale's character from a literary point of view....
The Scarlet Letter is a tragedy itself.Dimmesdale,the number one hero in the tragedy,is doomed to be a tragic character.He commits adultery with Hester,which should be punished by law.But because of his cowardice and ...
Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter and Henry Hurstwood in Sister Carrie have little in common in passion,guilt and death though they follow almost the same pathroad of life.From the comparison between them——the...
About this novel and Dimmesdale, here come some scholars’ ideas in recent years. Yang Zi Hong believes that the main struggle in the novel is between 'the natural man'and 'the social man'. 'The natural man' means: as...
In most critical works, Chillingworth is the demon and leech. But actually, he is not so fiendish and evil, and he has his own reason to do in his own way. Before the story opens, he is a man capable of love and desir...
The deaths of Dimmesdale.Hurstwood and Martin Eden presents different meanings.Dimmesdale's death indicates that a man should be responsible for the mistakes he has made;Hurstwood's miserable ending proves he fails to...
Nathaniel Hawthorne not only strongly condemns the belief that men are more evil than good, but also conveys the inclination towards good through the Scarlet Letter. The characters like Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, ...