Chapter 55 Hawthorne and the moving story of The Scarlet Letter

hawthorne and the touching story In the history of literature, many writers have been immortalized by a single book.Hawthorne so it is. Lathaniel Hawthorne was an American, born in 1804.He was a tax clerk, but It is sex writing, and has written many fairy tales and stories, and has also achieved considerable success.but until he After losing his job, he accidentally wrote his masterpiece, which became the famous American novel in the nineteenth century. one of.Today, Hawthorne will never be forgotten because of this novel.he Although several other works were written later, their existence is irrelevant.

This novel was written by Hawthorne when he was forty-five years old.This is from 1849 At this time, Hawthorne was married, and his wife Sophia was a typical good wife, and they already had They have two children, and the salary of the customs post is already enough for them to live on, so there is no need to worry. However, due to personnel changes this year, his position was suddenly abolished, so Hawthorne suddenly Get unemployed.Since he didn't have much savings and couldn't find a new position for a while, his The future seemed very bleak.But the virtuous Sophia comforted her husband at this moment: "You

Now that you don't have to go to work, don't you have time to sit down and write down what you have been wanting for a long time? Wrote a novel? According to Hawthorne's biography, at this time his wife encouraged him and cleaned him up. desk, lit him another fire in the fireplace, made him sit down comfortably, and ran upstairs to get a A small package was brought to show Hawthorne, which contained 150 yuan in cash. Come in case you need it.Now this small sum of money can at least support their family for two months. living expenses. In addition, his friends, the poet Ferro and others, knew that he was unemployed, and everyone also made a fortune.

Send him money and ask him to write with peace of mind.So Hawthorne, in this grateful and excited mood, Sit down and start writing the novel he's wanted to write for a long time.He had no idea what he was writing at the time. What self-confidence, so when a publisher came to him and asked if he had any ready-made manuscripts When it was published by them, he was modest and refused to take it out at first, until he asked again and again, he reluctantly Take a volume of manuscripts from a drawer and tell him: "Please take it back and have a look, will this thing work?" That same evening, the publisher wrote a letter to Hawthorne expressing his gratitude for the copy he had handed in.

The manuscript is much appreciated.This manuscript is nothing but. The story of this book is very moving, and Hawthorne writes this novel with the method of flashback. The background of the novel is the city of Boston in the United States. At the beginning, the heroine Hester is being released from prison. come out.Because her husband was not at home, she was pregnant by adultery, and she was not punished by the strict laws of the local American Puritans. Law firm, was sentenced to prison.At this time, he was released after serving his sentence, but he had already given birth in prison, and the child had already died.

There are three months old.After she was released, she had to go through another public display before she could fully regain her freedom. She was ordered to wear a special gown with a red "A" embroidered on the chest, which means "criminal". An abbreviation of the word "Adulteress". The local law stipulates that she must be punished for life Dressed in clothes with this word embroidered on the breast (which is where the title of the novel comes from), And when he was released from prison, he had to stand on the execution platform to show the public once.Hester did all this, but

There was only one thing she would never do, and that was to reveal the name of her adulterer. Hester stood on the scaffold, wearing a robe of shame with scarlet lettering on her chest, holding her adulterous and pregnant woman in her arms. The only son who came here, when he was showing the public there, the husband who had been away for two years was arriving from other places, and he mixed Watching the excitement among the crowd, because he didn't know about it at all. It was his wife, and only then did he know that something was wrong.Hawthorne's novel is tense from this scene

The narrative description begins with the scene, so it attracts the reader from the beginning. The husband stood in the crowd, naturally ashamed and annoyed.But there is one more sad in the crowd The man, that is, the young and respected local pastor.He was sad at this time, not Because there was this immoral case in his parish, but he was Hester White The father of the illegitimate child in his arms.But since Hester steadfastly refused to reveal the name of her lover, The process of their relationship is very secret, and no one will suspect that her adulterous opponent is He is a pastor they respect, so no one will suspect him.But the young pastor really

A good man, except that his love for Hester overcame his moral values, which made him do this. kind of thing.He therefore saw Hester bravely suffered alone, refused to implicate him, and stood It is very sad to be condemned by conscience in the audience. Although others cannot see the pastor's secret, but because of Hester's love for her after he was released from prison, The special care and sympathy made her husband gradually guess the secret.The husband is a doctor, he Because the pastor's health was not good, he used all kinds of words to torture him in the name of seeing a doctor, making him

He increased pain in his heart and used it to avenge him. At last, neither the vicar nor Hester could bear the condemnation of this spirit, and she bravely joined the vicar After discussing, they asked to take their illegitimate daughter and flee to live elsewhere.But the pastor refused, because For him decided to repent of his sins. One day, after a most touching grand sermon, the vicar took Hester's hand. Hands, took the illegitimate daughter who was already seven years old at that time, and walked up to the execution platform for public display. The citizens were extremely astonished, and solemnly announced to everyone that he said that he should have met with the same party seven years ago.

Hester is standing here together, but it is seven years late, please forgive me, but he finally There was an opportunity to do so, because he was the "adulter", the father of the illegitimate child. After he finished speaking, he was so excited that his sick body couldn't bear it, and he fell into Hester's arms and died. up. This is the moving content of Hawthorne's masterpiece.Published in 1850, He was forty-six then.Later, he wrote several other works, but none of them could keep up with this animation. Man's masterpiece.He lived to be sixty years old and died in 1860.