一、《红字》中红色的象征意义《红字》是美国作家纳撒尼尔.霍桑于1850年写的长篇小说,是19世纪美国浪漫主义的杰出作品。这部作品取材于新英格兰的一桩并不惊人的通奸案,情节极其简单,却立刻成为并且一直是批评家和一般读者谈论的话题。其中一个重要原因,就是作者在思想内容和艺术手法上独具 I. The Symbolic Significance of Red in the Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 and is an outstanding work of American romanticism in the 19th century. Drawing on a not-so-surprising adultery in New England, the plot is extremely simple but immediately becomes and continues to be a topic of discussion with critics and general readers. One of the important reasons is that the author is unique in his ideological content and artistic technique