Image Analysis of the Characters in The Scarlet Letter
Authors
Yanmei Song
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Yanmei Song
Available Online July 2018.
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.203How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Hester; Dimmesdale; Chillingworth; Pearl; revelation
- Abstract
The Scarlet Letter is recognized as the authoritative work of Nathaniel Hawthorne who is the most significant romantic writer in American literature in the 19th century. This thesis attempts to take the novel The Scarlet letter as the text, analyses the different images of Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl by the contrast methods and summarizes the revelations for the readers from their tragic life. These image analysis reveals the truth that different choices decide different fates.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yanmei Song PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - Image Analysis of the Characters in The Scarlet Letter BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 887 EP - 889 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.203 DO - 10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.203 ID - Song2018/07 ER -