Symbolism In The Scarlet Letter
...Hawthorn¡¯s most outstanding representative works, makes him known all over the world. It is regarded as the first symbolic novel in American literature because of the ingenious using of symbolism. This paper researches the features of symbolism originally used in this novel to make the novel clear to the readers.
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Introduction
In the matter of literature, the definition of the literary device, symbolism, can simply be defined as being the art of practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations1. Symbolism is a traditional artistic form. It began as a literary movement that developed from Romanticism in France in the second half of the 19th century. In the tragedy of ancient Greece or the symbolic opera in Middle Ages Europe, the using of symbolism in the development of literature can be found everywhere. Symbolism is also a major feature of Romanticism. As a famous writer of Romanticism, Hawthorne is skillful at the using of it in his works. His work The Scarlet Letter has some originality when he uses the symbolism based on carrying on this traditional art and shows its own distinguishing features.
1. The ambiguous nature of symbolism
Many symbols Hawthorn used in this novel have more than just one symbolic meaning. Using symbolism in this way manifests the ambiguous nature of it. Among them, the meaning of the scarlet letter and Pearl are typical cases.
1.1 The Various Symbolic Meaning of the Scarlet Letter ¡°A¡±.
In this novel, the symbolic meaning of...
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