摘要
Nathaniel Hawthorn is the greatest American romantic novelist during the nineteenth century.He is skillful at the using of symbolism in his works,especially in his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter.Hawthorn is a writer with art talent,who uses different colors to enhance the artistic effects of The scarlet Letter.Colors emerging on the most occasions are used as a mayor form of symbolism to reflect the character’s feelings,personalities and fates.This paper aims to elaborate the usage of colors as a form of symbolism in three parts:the symbolic meaning of red,the symbolic meaning of black,and the symbolic meaning of grey.
Nathaniel Hawthorn is the greatest American romantic novelist during the nineteenth century. He is skillful at the using of symbolism in his works, especially in his masterpiece The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorn is a writer with art talent, who uses different colors to enhance the artistic effects of The scarlet Letter. Colors emerging on the most occasions are used as a mayor form of symbolism to reflect the character's feelings, personalities and fates. This paper aims to elaborate the usage of colors as a form of symbolism in three parts: the symbolic meaning of red, the symbolic meaning of black, and the symbolic meaning of grey.
出处
《海外英语》
2016年第14期182-183,共2页
Overseas English
