Feelings

The evil symbol of The scarlet letter: In the novel, the scarlet letter is A pattern or symbol similar to the shape of the letter "A", which is a secular punishment for the protagonist Hearst's "affair". Hearst was pregnant at the time, but the father of the child was unknown, and Puritan and secular judges found him guilty of adultery and ordered him to wear the scarlet letter on his chest for life as punishment. The love symbol of The Scarlet letter: Hearst's dedication to love is also an important symbolic meaning of the red letter. Although she was regarded as a sinful person in the eyes of the secular world, her unwavering commitment to love and loyalty to her family made the scarlet letter a symbol of morality and glory for her. The symbolic meaning of The Scarlet letter: the characters, plot and language in the novel are all subject to imagination, and the author uses symbolic techniques to put the inner activities and intuitions of the characters in the first place. Therefore, The Scarlet Letter is not only a representative work of American romantic novels, but also a pioneering work of American psychoanalytic novels. The Scarlet Letter is a typical and profound manifestation of Hawthorne's ambivalence towards Puritan ethics, which is both identification and doubt. His identification is manifested in his discussion of the evil of human nature and the rebirth of the soul, and his doubt is manifested in the revelation of the suppression of legitimate human nature by Puritan ethics and morality.