1、 海丝特与卡米拉爱情观的对比分析的论文abstracthaerican novelist and short story asterpiece, devastates the human spirits and peoples longing for happiness. from the feminist point of viean, hester. it creatively deduces that the heroine is fighting against the patriarchal oppression on her. the an image that advocates
2、 feminism and seeks the romantic love is outstanding especially in puritan society. even though she is strong, brave, industrious, kindhearted, and illa is noily, since she istress for a long time before their marriage. although hester and camilla are en in different eras, they have something in com
3、mon. they have painful experiences of marriages arriage is on the basis of reality” (xiong ainly analyzes their attitudes toparison. there are similarities among their vieple, both of them are rebellious en and eager to gain true love, struggling against the loveless marriages. the paper mostly demo
4、nstrates the differences from the aspects of different backgrounds, different characters, rebellious spirits, different vieilla; love; comparison; feminist consciousness摘 要纳撒尼尔 霍桑是 19 世纪美国的著名小说家和作家。长篇小说红字是霍桑的代表作。它充分反应了清教对人的精神摧残和人们无法克制的对幸福生活的追求。从女权主义的角度看，红字是一部有关反叛女性海丝特的小说。小说创造性地演绎了当时的父系社会对海丝特的压迫。海丝特崇
5、尚女权主义、追求浪漫爱情的女性形象在清教社会中表现的尤为突出。她虽然坚强、勇敢、勤劳、善良，并具有崇高的自我献身精神，但最终却落得悲惨的结局。卡米拉是当今英国王室一位颇具争议的王妃，而在这之前，她一直都扮演着查尔斯王子情妇的角色。海丝特与卡米拉是不同时代的两个女性，但她们之间却有着本质的联系。她们都有着只有婚姻而没有爱情的痛苦经历。“爱情是建立在理想土壤上的，而婚姻是建立在现实基础上的”（熊文，82）。因此本论文主要从爱情观的角度对她们进行对比分析。海丝特与卡米拉的爱情观，同中有异，异中有同，都具有反叛和抗争，渴望得到真爱，都在无爱的婚姻中苦苦挣扎。论文将就她们的不同点：时代背景的不同，性格特
6、征的不同，反叛方式，爱情观以及其结局的不同等方面对论文主题进行阐述。关键词海丝特；卡米拉；爱情；对比；女权主义意识introductionthe scarlet letter represents the height of haan soul under extreme pressures. hester is the heroine of haakes the an, she alent from her husband or lover. she admires and seeks for the ideal marriage. hester is eager to gain brigh
7、tness and freedom. but her heart is alent of puritanism and humiliation of the people make her merely crazy. it is a pity that dimmesdales cos restraint lead her life to a tragic ending. in a sense, as a an suffering from spirit sorromesdale. she is a good model for the en of ne her, people can knoe
8、aning of true love.camilla, as a controversial princess, lives in modern english royal family. by comparison an to fight against the royal family and the public. camilla is older than charles and a divorced an, akes it difficult for them to marry. but the intense love bet has spanned decades. it is
9、a tale that has reached almost shakespearian heights of passion, misery and betrayal. their marriage thrusts them back into the spotlight ines hoily. but arriage betilla is regarded as a villain by the press.both hester and camilla are rebels, struggling against the loveless marriages. this paper ma
10、inly analyzes their vieparison, from the aspects of their different backgrounds, characters, rebellious spirits, vie their vieistrial atmosphere and fatalism. this kind of religious thought envelops her illa cannot give in english royal family and the public. nothing can shake her beliefloves charle
11、s very much. i. the different backgrounds of hester and camilladifferent backgrounds signify different fates, just like hester and camilla. although their backgrounds are so different, the attitude to seek true love is the samebreaking through traditional concepts and secular prejudices and seeking
12、their true love.a. the influence of puritanism upon hesters poor fatehester the heroine of nathaniel ha, humanity dignity, individual rights and so on, gives a heavy punch upon puritan society. the letter “a” functions as her passport into religions en dare not tread. hester has been portrayed as an
13、 intelligent and capable an. it is the extraordinary circumstances shaping her that make her become such an important figure. she is the most controversial person. to a profound extent, she symbolizes a revolution. as a an, she indulges herself, on behalf of human vulnerability and sadness. for the
14、secular, she commits adultery, but as a devout puritan, she has also run counter to the religious rules. pearl is just hester in miniaturecraze, despair, emotional resistance and headstrong temperaments. she has been married, but she has never loved. mesdale make love, the organs of sense are es to
15、realize the true meaning as a an. therefore, she is eager to seek her true love. her rebellious attitude and courage for the an and religious contradictions become the focus. she is a devout puritan in essence, just because of great vitality, makes mistakes and has to suppress her desires. dimmesdal
16、e and she dont play frivolous game, her crime is the result of humanitys extending, ean abandoning religion, just because humanity and religious doctrine conflict.the novel exposes capitalist development, the brutal social codes, religious deceptions and moral hypocrisies in the nineteenth-century e
17、ra. hester is oral heroine in disguise. but english traditions and prejudices are engraved on their minds: bers, but strong in spirit. puritans live unrealistic lives that are horrifyingly rigid and that lead those to act definitely on the outside of love. they advocate being faithful y outlook of l
18、ife. although ha of sin is obvious in his erican classical literature, a psychological melodrama about the cruel and unusual punishment of original sin committed out of love. the novel suggests that american romanticism adapt to american puritanism. the theme is that guilt or sin its her sin or not,
19、 and her love is really sinful. the dominant concern in the novel is the moral, emotional, and psychological effect on the people in general and those implicate in it in particular. puritanism is the ultimate reason that influences on hesters erican puritanism stresses predestination, original sin,
20、total depravity, and limits to gain atonements from gods grace. it is based on the biblical myth of the garden of eden. hesters adultery is viemunity in and eve the garden of eden for eating of the fruit of the trees of the garden and knos degeneration makes people have original sins, but it also ga
21、ins gods grace. gods grace has double standard, parallel justice and charity, and love ely, ents of gods justice s degeneration has already made rationality and emotion be parted. thus it loses gods integrity faith. it is difficult for novelist to identify some helpless relief. hester and dimmesdale
22、s story is like the story of adam and eves. after falling in love in an instant, there is the myth of human origin, and there is also evil. the experience of hester and dimmesdale recalls the story of adam and eve, because in both cases, sin results in expulsion and suffering. but it also results in
23、 knoeans to be human. an love to explore the “evil”, he has never let himself get rid of confusions and contradictions. as adam said: “this is noy bone and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called an, because she an.” and to the an he said: “great e to birth; still your desire aster.” (duan qi, 1994,
24、55).this opinion affects ens status in society. religion aggravates the inequalities beten and en, at the same time it supports mens great atrocities to en. it is precisely because of en subordinate status the gender discrimination. religious prejudice and secular moral punishment let them pay a hea
25、vy price. oral sins or social sins, haan nature the scarlet letter scrutinizes early american puritanical society e values based on love, not on controlling. namely, she is the opposite extreme of the puritans.b. condemn from royal family and the public toillacamilla parker-boodern society, but as a
26、 an, she still doesnt completely control her life and her true love. she doesnt still get rid of the seculars prejudices and church pressures. ore, the royal family is arrogant. a couple being separated is seen as the modern version of romeo and juliet. in front of the royal family, history doesnt p
27、rogress. hoakes a man love a an so much? believe it or not, it has little to do ore than likely fantastic. it has to do fortable feeling together, making each other laugh and please, and sharing the same interests and hobbies. it has to do plementing and consolation each other, each half making the
28、other one ates. great sex is a byproduct of such a relationship. after all, charles loves camilla very much. the hostility toilla doesnt influence on their relationship.the public hate camilla, illas status in charless heart. hoost people illa. she seems to be blamed for the breakup of charles and d
29、ianas marriage. she is perceived to be a home its that he and camilla has been romantically involved .after diana died in 1997, camilla becomes charless steady companion and partner, amid much public chatter about the propriety of their behaviors and charles should become king.meanarrying diana have
30、 nothing to do other to marry so the monarchy pugn the characters of english en, but hot looking and poised virgins from the upper crust families arent exactly in great supply. a virgin bride is the only itted diseases like syphilis, mon through much of human history. camilla fails to qualify in the
31、 virginity department. charles has spent over 30 years dating her and has arry her, but she is off the list of royal marriage partners because she isnt a virgin. apparently, there are concerns that her blood isnt blue enough. charles could be a future king and marry a proper british virgin or could
32、abdicate, marry the an he loves. camillas ordinary appearance and age dont seem appropriate for a romantic an. she is distorted by the tabloids endlessly, so she has been casting into the limelight. the public are driven by their os, and think that love should be that en have beautiful appearance, m
33、en should have handsome looks. the public alloen and young en have romantic love; the middle-aged men and ladies have romantic love, but look doantic love that men are younger than en. this describes the status inequality beten and en.above all, it is knoilla experience the social unequal treatments
34、. they are eager to break through the inequality and live a happy life. they are the good models for the en in neillaas a illa are both brave en s. from them, people knoen are eager to seek freedom and happy marriage, but the social pressures and patriarchy system detain their passive hearts. as en
35、in different eras, they have something in commonperseverance and inner charming.a. hesters guilty feelingshester is a lovely and imaginative young girl arried. she needs being loved and accompanied, and longs for a rich and colorful life. but her husband never realizes her feeling and makes her entr
36、ap into solitude. so she falls in love mesdale, from then on, plants the origin of their subsequent sorrooralists, although she is a degraded an, her socalled degradation should be attributed to her tragic marriage. apart from that, puritanism is another cause to her poor fate. the scriptures demand
37、 death for adultery, and the puritan laarriage and the sacredness of the family. thus, the “lamesdale are the seventh commandment of decalogue, and hesters crime of adultery can only be punished by death. in hesters opinion, even though their marriage ends in a failure, chillingmoral to have an inti
38、mate relationship an. so at an accidental sight of her lost husband, she dares not to face him and is frightened to be asked about the identity of the babys father, for she realizes that if she tells the name of the babys father, her husband must take revenge against him. that is to say, hester is a
39、 brave and controversial an. on one hand, she longs for the romantic love. on the other hand, she dares not incompletely betray her husband.she is a sexy an ens characteristics. as a young and beautiful girl, but get married to a physique abnormal man, she cannot feel the love. after her husband dis
40、appeared, the young pastordimmesdale intrudes into her lonely life. she falls in love . to her, many unsuspected tendencies of her impulsive and passionate nature are revealed to her. the “oriental characteristics” of her temperament, her ardent love of beauty, her native energy and capacity,such el
41、ements need a strong and , scarcely disguised by the light of her innocent and anly charm. hester, as a social outcast, finds no invitation to repentance in the laan has marked hesters sin by a scarlet letter, an sympathy could reach her. although she sets herself apart from society, she doesnt have
42、 the innocent that alloillas confidencecamilla is a socialite by birth and by nature, born into the english elite circle in 1947, like other girls of her station, is groomed for a place in society. camilla is athletic and enjoys the outdoors and traditions like hunting and fishing. she isnt particul
43、arly clothes-conscious but she alen. she never spends much time on her hair or her nails illa is definitely a success in her circle. charles and camilla experience a longstanding relationship that continues on- and-off. finally, charles is marrying camilla.camilla doesnt have good looking and grace
44、of the late princess diana, but one thing is for sure, unlike the relationship charles had illa. not many of us are e an for over 30 years. camilla is a blunt, doorous person. according to her an. no matter agnet and invincible confidence in her appearance is largely made up disadvantages. she is fu
45、ll of fun in her life. s anything goes ay burst out at any time. in her generation, a feilla. she is bold, blunt, but is different from the other en at her period. she leaves profound impressions on many people, such as: confidence, dignity, pride, sense of security, a sense of trust, treats each ot
46、her as equals.iii. rebellious spiritsa. hesters three main rebellions1. insistence on the guardianship over pearlhester has never abandoned the consideration for freedom in her lonely life. she changes herself from a passionate and emotional an into a thoughtful an. she commits a crime, but her hone
47、st attitude relative to the male images of hypocrisy in the novels pathies. y keeping and i mesdale, she insists on the guardianship over pearl. and ever since then, her position has changed from a passive one to a positive one. she is a an mesdale, said: “an concerning and adapting reality, her ide
48、as dissolves in the real attitude to tolerance of the real life.2. disclosing of the hypocrisy of chillingale image. she not only considers about ens unequal status, but also shootional loss. she becomes the personification of truth, kindness and beauty, her action is sure of love under the oppressi
49、on of the feudal regime and full recognition of human rights and freedoms. hester once hides her husbands true identity, but aging dimmesdales sense of peace other than his conscience alone, she meets dimmesdale in the forest and tells him that the physician is her husband and endous loneliness and suffering, she goes to confess her sins, and she gradually forms a tolerant and kind-hearted broad-mindedness. the immoral love cannot make her stop, the human hardship and suffering also cannot crush her, and the present attack st
