《威尼斯商人》中的夏洛克一直被视为是集狡黠、贪婪和冷血于一身的反面形象,而《红字》中的白兰则被誉为是隐忍、坚强和善良的化身,其正面形象博取了众人的同情,因此二者获得的评价也大相径庭。其实,这两个被不同时代的作家所塑造的人物有着内在的同一性,包括相似的遭遇和散发的浓郁的悲剧色彩等。本文以约翰洛克的白板理论、边沁的功利主义以及卢梭的社会契约论为理论基础,从不同的维度来解析夏洛克与白兰所在的文本语境和历史语境,勘探这两个角色本质上的同一性。 Shylock in The Merchant of Venice has always been seen as a cunning, greedy and cold-blooded antipathy, while Prynne in the Scarlet Letter is hailed as a forbearing, strong and kind-hearted incarnation whose positive image has captured People’s sympathy, so the two received very different evaluation. In fact, these two characters portrayed by writers of different ages have inherent identities, including similar encounters and rich tragedies. Based on John Locke’s whiteboard theory, Bentham’s utilitarianism and Rousseau’s social contract theory, this dissertation analyzes the textual context and the historical context of Shylock and Brandy from different dimensions and explores the essence of these two roles The sameness