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between Hawthorne's earlier and his later productions there is no solution of literary continuity, but only increased growth and grasp. Rappaccini's Daughter, Young Goodman Brown, Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure, and The Artist of the Beautiful, on the one side, are the promise which is fulfilled in The Scarlet Letter and the House of The Seven Gables, on the other; though we should hardly have understood the promise had not the fulfillment explained it. The shorter pieces have a lyrical quality, but the longer romances express more than a mere combination of lyrics; they have a rich, multifarious life of their own. The material is so wrought as to become incidental to something loftier and greater, for which our previous analysis of the contents of the egg had not prepared us. The Scarlet Letter was the first, and the tendency of criticism is to pronounce it the most impressive, also, of these ampler productions. It has the charm of unconsciousness; the author did not realize while he worked, that this most prolix among tales was alive with the miraculous vitality of genius. It combines the strength and substance of an oak with the subtle organization of a rose, and is great, not of malice aforethought, but inevitably. It goes to the root of the matter, and reaches some unconventional conclusions, which, however, would scarce be apprehended by one reader in twenty. For the external or literal significance of the story, though in strict correspondence with the spirit, conceals that spirit from the literal eye. The reader may choose his depth according to his inches but only a tall man will touch the bottom.The punishment of the scarlet letter is a historical fact; and, apart from the symbol thus ready provided to the author's hand, such a book as The Scarlet Letter would doubtless never have existed. But the symbol gave the touch whereby Hawthorne's disconnected thoughts on the subject were united and crystallized in organic form. Evidently, likewise, it was a source of inspiration, suggesting new aspects and features of the truth,—a sort of witch-hazel to detect spiritual gold. Some such figurative emblem, introduced in a matter-of-fact way, but gradually invested with supernatural attributes, was one of Hawthorne's favorite devices in his stories. We may realize its value, in the present case, by imagining the book with the scarlet letter omitted. It is not practically essential to the plot. But the scarlet letter uplifts the theme from the material to the spiritual level. It is the concentration and type of the whole argument. It transmutes the prose into poetry. It serves as a formula for the conveyance of ideas otherwise too subtle for words, as well as to enhance the gloomy picturesqueness of the moral scenery. It burns upon its wearer's breast, it casts a lurid glow along her pathway, it isolates her among mankind, and is at the same time the mystic talisman to reveal to her the guilt hidden in other hearts. It is the Black Man's mark, and the first plaything of the infant Pearl. As the story develops, the scarlet letter becomes the dominant figure,—everything is tinged with its sinister glare. By a ghastly miracle its semblance is reproduced upon the breast of the minister, where God's eye beheld it! the angels were forever pointing at it! the devil knew it well, and fretted it continually with the touch of his burning finger!—and at last, to Dimmesdale's crazed imagination, its spectre appears even in the midnight sky as if heaven itself had caught the contagion of his so zealously hidden sin. So strongly is the scarlet letter rooted in every chapter and almost every sentence of the book that bears its name. And yet it would probably have incommoded the average novelist. The wand of Prospero, so far from aiding the uninititated, trips him up, and scorches his fingers. Between genius and every other attribute of the mind is a difference not of degree, but of kind. Every story may be viewed under two aspects: as the logical evolution of a conclusion from a premise, and as something colored and modified by the personal qualities of the author. If the latter have genius, his share in the product is comparable to nature's in a work of human art,—giving it everything except abstract form. But the majority of fiction-mongers are apt to impair rather than enhance the beauty of the abstract form of their conception, -- if, indeed, it possess any to begin with. At all events, there is no better method of determining the value of a writer's part in a given work than to consider the work in what may be termed its prenatal state. How much, for example, of The Scarlet Letter was ready made before Hawthorne touched it? The date is historically fixed at about the middle of the seventeenth century. The stage properties, so to speak, are well adapted to become the furniture and background of a romantic narrative. A gloomy and energetic religious sect, pioneers in a virgin land, with the wolf and the Indian at their doors, but with memories of England in their hearts and English traditions and prejudices in their minds; weak in numbers, but strong in spirit; with no cultivation save that of the Bible and the sword; victims, moreover of a dark and bloody superstition,—such a people and scene give admirable relief and color to a tale of human frailty and sorrow. Amidst such surroundings, then, the figure of a woman stands, with the scarlet letter on her bosom. But here we come to a pause, and must look to the author for the next step.For where shall the story begin? A twenty-number novel, of the Dickens or Thackeray type, would start with Hester's girlhood, and the bulk of the narrative would treat of the genesis and accomplishment of the crime. Nor are hints wanting that this phase of the theme had been canvassed in Hawthorne's mind. We have glimpses of the heroine in the antique gentility of her English home; we see the bald brow and reverend beard of her father, and her mother's expression of heedful and anxious love; we behold the girl's own face, glowing with youthful beauty. She meets the pale, elderly scholar, with his dim yet penetrating eyes, and the marriage, loveless on her part and folly on his, takes place; but they saw not the bale-fire of the scarlet letter blazing at the end of their path. The ill-assorted pair make their first home in Amsterdam; but at length, tidings of the Puritan colony in Massachusetts reaching them, they prepare to emigrate thither. But Prynne, himself delaying to adjust certain affairs, sends his young, beautiful, wealthy wife in advance to assume her station in the pioneer settlement. In the wild, free air of that new world her spirits kindled, and many unsuspected tendencies of her impulsive and passionate nature were revealed to her. The rich, voluptuous, Oriental characteristics of her temperament, her ardent love of beauty, her strong intellectual fibre, and her native energy and capacity,—such elements needed a strong and wise hand to curb and guide them, scarcely disguised as they were by the light and graceful foliage of her innocent, womanly charm. Being left, however, for two years to her own misguidance, her husband had little cause to wonder, when, on emerging from the forest, the first object to meet his eyes was Hester Prynne, standing up, a statue of ignominy, before the people. She doubtless was strongly tempted to her fall; and though the author leaves the matter there, so far as any explicit statement is concerned, it is manifest that, had he written out what was already pictured before his imagination, the few pregnant hints scattered through the volume would have been developed into as circumstantial and laborious a narrative as any the most deliberate English or French novelist could desire.For his forbearance he has received much praise from well-meaning critics, who seem to think that he was restrained by considerations of morality or propriety. This appears a little strained. As an artist and as a man of a certain temperament, Hawthorne treated that side of the subject which seemed to him the more powerful and interesting. But a writer who works with deep insight and truthful purpose can never be guilty of a lack of decency. Indecency is a creation, not of God or of nature, but of the indecent. And whoever takes it for granted that indecency is necessarily involved in telling the story of an illicit passion has studied human nature and good literature to poor purpose.

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The Scarlet LetterThe scarlet letter stands as the best work of Hawthorn and one of the indubitable masterpieces of American literature ，in which Hawthorne remarkably handls the Puritan background，and carefully suppresses everything expect the deep shadows from which the grim tragedy naturally proceeds . the theme of novel is depicting sin and its consequences around which the moods created are those feelings are remorse,sorrow ,and despaire .moreover ,all these feelings are woven so completely and harmoniously into the story that its characters,action,and setting blend into a delicate but enduring work of art . The story that the novel tells is very simple.it main tells a story about an adultery .Her mother was found guilty of adultery and giving birth to Pearl ,and condemned to wear on the breast of her grown the scarlet letter A.which stood for adultary.It was imprinted on the flesh above his heart.because she can not find her husband .they gain a lot of taunt and unfair treatment.at last,she found her father and died .but she still wore the letter A on his breast,which was no longer the sign pf shame,but am emblem of her tender mercy and kindness .At her death she hoped that the only inscription on her tombstone should be the scarlet letter A.希望對你有所幫助 沒有在網(wǎng)上查找資料

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只能寫10000字 《紅字》 The Scarlet Letter Book The Scarlet Letter is the American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's most outstanding representative of the United States as a whole romantic story in the most prestigious works of one of the authority.'s Novel The story takes place in the mid-seventeenth century Calvin who were under the rule of the Boston, the author At that time, the social status quo from the start, through a touching love story to expose the tragedy of the spirit of the people, spiritual and moral destruction. * Hester Prynne is a marriage was on the unfortunate women, young and beautiful, but married to a physical deformity of the sick patients * Shiluo Jie Ling Qi Worth, a lack of love between husband and wife, and later, Roger Also missing at sea, Yaowuyinxun, Prynne lived a lonely life. At this time there is a handsome and ambitious young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale * into her life, they are sincere love, time After a period of privacy but warm love life. In the near future, Blenheim pregnant as a result of the hidden exposure to the crime of adultery was arrested, in prison, gave birth to a daughter, Pearl small. At that time, in accordance with the rules, the only explanation adulterer Prynne's name in order to be pardoned, they would be punished. However, the implementation of the mandate of the trial but it was his lover. Prynne alone would rather put up with any punishment for her generation and Dimmesdale Seoul between the deeply buried in the hearts of love, she has a strong hold on. * Hester Prynne was punished, she must be wearing a life-long embroidered red A word of the coat. A letter on behalf of adultery (Adultery) of the word. Prynne Pearl with a small retreat from living alone in remote huts on the outskirts of In those who have been lonely life. Sinister and former Fu Luojie Dimmesdale found the abnormal performance of the minister to use such mixed feelings and suffering, continue to torment him, Dimmesdale finally promoted to bishop in his forthcoming On the eve of, publicly announced their secret, Dimmesdale to expose people around the love of the first carol. When he himself say a few words of bras, of a scarlet A word in defense of his chest. In his own wife who passed away. * Hester Prynne, his strong, perseverance, love of the faithful. Although the ruled that the guilty, but she has a clean, pure. Her spirit rising to become truth, benevolence and beauty in disguise. She moves on to teach and the right of the feudal regime of oppression under the love, human rights and freedoms fully affirmed. Prynne and Dimmesdale initially had a red-hot love, although he had to retreat, to cover for their own comfort, but the heart of the suffering has not been affected by his calm and security, on the contrary, more and more strongly. He Prynne and the date, he flails on the stage of self-punishment of repentance, and their escape plans, as well as the final public speeches have become Dimmesdale's love toward the altar of the approaching step by step by step. Finally, he say a few words T-shirt, people see a large cake in his chest A red characters. A word that is actually baked in his mind, this is the distillation of love. Rose spent by the author with good symbol of the United States, with prison a symbol of death, with a light, a bird ... ... Prynne and Dimmesdale a symbol of love between the crystallization - Pearl so that the work is full of a Charming drive. In the last works in combination Prynne and Dimmesdale's words inscribed on the tombstone: a cemetery, inscribed A word of the blood red. This indeed is the phrase meaningful《純真的》After a small M have long recommended, The Age of Innocence and thought that the Fen Qing-style of writing I do not like it, but I accepted, but which are often humorous language making humorous laugh. Not the whole story I was impressed, in addition to the name, The Age of Innocence. We all have been so innocent era, then stick to the time - even if we have most to lose. Sometimes that will now miss the start with some memories are too hypocritical, but there is still a thing of the past years, as opposed to now is a more innocent era, I, we will miss you very much! I rise at school that day, Tang Tang put on the ring play, just put the ring on the phone, looked at the names of calls, I look distracted on the whole, had a response from only a few seconds. Never thought I would be little call, how long we have had no contact? For a long time now, but for small M and I will not have to forget him? But the excitement of the moment, and excitedly ran to answer the phone outside the classroom, the results of the telephone voice Natou ... ... I thought it was a bad signal, and linked the attack to him in the past, this time on the Shang Keling rang, so I hung up Phone to school, and then he would fight back ... ... Not surprisingly, he is careful not wrong ... ... But to hear his voice again, I am very happy. How long has he heard a voice? ... ... Do not remember his voice, or so nicely! I have a small school to call M, to tell her this, with a tone of ridicule her means, but also the hearts of the real feel happy, real feel his voice in so long after the sound is still good to hear! We are very excited about the talk for a long time and then you told me you are surging, and I laugh. Yes ah, we are surging, but if you received his phone call to hear his voice, you direct a boiling it ^ ^ Those years, we have the surging passion and pure love of juvenile time is to him. Qiu Huibao we do not, with impunity, he's like. We will remember his bit by bit, this diary, he is the highest frequency. I am a long time that night sitting in the window, my arms are drying flowers, moonlight, they have a strange and beautiful color and fragrance, and I have hidden under the music loudly crying. Wound that remains, and can not be touched, I know it seems clear to forget everything, and all the buildings have become the memory of my life in the dry flowers, always, can not fade, never, in my years off the dust from dust. Woo, I was So to miss you. We will not forget this part of it, leaves Fashion Collection to spend the mummy. We marveled at the time, even the names are the same, and the text between the kind of emotion is going after Yu's portrayal of the real. For this article, I remember a woman called Ye Fashion Collection. Eight years later is how we are feeling at the time to look at the feelings of it? I think we will not be childish and laughable, on the contrary, we admire very much at the time of their own, can be like as a pure, as a firm. The Age of Innocence, when the juvenile is no longer afraid of Zhao Buhui it! It is like the first, the price of love to sing the same: Fewer still remember when you dream Flowers will never fade like a flower I have gone through with it exposed to the elements Look at things to see volatile changes in the vicissitudes of life For those who love the price paid by the Will never forget all the ah All true, then the infatuation Never in my heart Although he did not have I may occasionally still think he Will inevitably occasionally about his When he is on an old friend ah I also feel bad I have about But my heart is no longer sparks Let the past go all the wind All true, then the infatuation Never in my heart Although he did not have Go always go to learn to grow their own Go go of life inevitably experience pain struggle Go go for his heart to find a home Also feel sad tears have broken heart This is the price of love《遠離塵囂》 From Library Journal Random's Modern Library is reproducing this Hardy standard as a tie-in to a Masterpiece Theater presentation and offering a quality hardcover for a reasonable price. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From AudioFile Those who relished the recent PBS series will be happy to know that this audio version is read by Gabriel Oak himself--Nathaniel Parker. He and Thomas Hardy make a fine team. As the rustic workers bring in the harvest, or shear the sheep, or barter at the market--their lively dialogue projects pictures of nineteenth-century Wessex that are almost as vivid as the paintings of John Constable. Nathaniel Parker seems to be one of them--or all of them--as he slips naturally from one character to another, even capturing the voice of Bathsheba as she laments her disastrous marriage. It all comes together in the end as she and Gabriel prepare to live happily ever after, the only Hardy characters so blessed! J.C. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Review “Far from the Madding Crowd is the first of Thomas Hardy’s great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his fiction is best remembered.” -Margaret Drabble From the Trade Paperback edition. Thomas Hardy Society Journal The readings are sensitive and intelligent and even revelatory, for they made me aware of how much is lost in a great writer like Hardy by our habit of silent reading. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. The Boston Globe, January 1999 For classic literature, check out the new Cover to Cover series. All are 19th and 20th century works produced in England. They are handsomely packaged in sturdy, decorative cardboard boxes. The series carries the exclusive Royal Warrant from Charles, Prince of Wales...One of the first in series is Thomas Hardy's novel, Far from the Madding Crowd. Not as dour and fatalistic as his later works, this pastoral romance reveals a sly wit not usually associated with the author. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY, December 3, 1998 These Cover to Cover tapes offer up a delectable feast for fans of the spoken word. We're talking class act here - from the elegant covers to the accomplished readers. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Review ?Far from the Madding Crowd is the first of Thomas Hardy?s great novels, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his fiction is best remembered.? -Margaret Drabble 《傲偏見 In fact, this book has been in contact with the first, but then the story of a very complex patient did not read a few chapters there will be no interest, has been set aside until today to pick up again. But when they look at the beginning of chapters still feel very boring, it understood only in here for the scene after the ambush pen. Blink of an eye, more than three chapter is over, and people's character is also very clear that it was a portrait of the author. This book seems to be only two kinds of people: the wise and foolish, there is no absolute good or bad, except perhaps Wickham liar. He used his clever flattery, as well as the ability to pay a pleasing the instrument, fascinated Elizabeth, kept for their own grievances washing, Darcy slander. He's funny, so full of flaws, and Elizabeth Congmingguoren are able to mesh with Bin Miss rebuttal, and Lady Catherine contradict, but still led by the nose by Wickham. To be honest, I do not think he cheated Elizabeth is a fool. Always first, Mr. arrogant, disrespectful way well into Elizabeth's mind, but also on how good opinion of him? The comments of other people, how can easily turn a deaf ear? Have a prejudice against Darcy is normal. I am talking about other people is a natural means of Xiangmaotangtang the Wickham. There is no denying that Wickham with a long handsome face, is also installed on the surface very gentleman. Although The human cannot the facial expression , know the human to know the surface not to be intimate Even I can say that living in the twenty-first century, so as to the identity of the spectator to see the story, Wickham still have a good opinion, how can we complain Elizabeth This is a life of the times in the last girl? The book is closed, taste carefully about it, just found the whole novel, was attractive because it is completely relaxed style of humor. Elizabeth laughed at the irony is that those self-gentleman, the aristocratic lady stood thoroughly exposed. The father of Elizabeth Bennet, even ridiculed by his wife and daughter for the family to be happy, fortunate Kenya? Unfortunately, Kenya? 《熱愛生命》： The famous novel love life was a sensation in Europe and America, and has been praised Lenin. Works to show the nature of the strong, brave and adventurous spirit of romance, To Live strong will to attract me deeply, is excited about reading. This novel, by Jack London with great artistic strength to calm a soul-stirring account of the life and death struggle of the story, showing how to love life to help overcome the death of a person; Despite the Cross, the sick, exhausted, still in In the struggle to keep up with bare hands in the back of a uniform E Lang, and the world of ice and snow through the wilderness struggling to come to the beach, was finally rescued by a whaler. The tragic story, vividly demonstrates the great human and strong. Full display of the depths of human nature Moments, and vivid descriptions of a life's tenacity and strong, struck up a tenacious hymn to life, the spirits can be described as awesome. Life itself contains enormous potential energy. Sometimes life is very fragile moment, it may come to naught; life, but sometimes unusual strong, so strong was amazing. This allows you to power in the face no matter what, even if you swallow is the wild, wild animals, or hunger, disease, and will support you bravely overcome it. And behind the scenes support life, the energy is no doubt that conviction. As long as the hearts of survival is also the belief that they do not easily give up their lives, and then the embarrassing situation of Juechufengsheng also. On the other hand, love life, it is necessary to have faith, be pursued. When people have no faith, not the pursuit of life will become a full body, and what has been a dead? ! . In real life, it was untimely for the lament, a dream life, some people really do not intend to complain alive, but some people say life is painful and boring; not so in the belief that the instigation of life, what we see is too many The life of emptiness and boredom, too much of the game of life, decadence and depressed too much, as well as bored to death ... .... The other day to see a report that China's current annual suicide cases in the most rural areas, and the pesticide is the culprit; It also reflects the number from the side of China's rural population is currently the overall quality of the city relative to be further enhanced. Encounter live or work in some of the difficulties small and not try to overcome resolved, but anger, the bigger things, the event will be much Xunsimihuo. This novel of the same character to overcome obstacles, compared to the courage to survive difficult it is different. May be a lot of you have seen the show or people with Games for the Disabled, which the Warriors Shencanzhijian are difficult to overcome various difficulties and even torture, made even healthy people find it hard to complete the task. They are the love of life, difficulties with the courage to fight against a model. Jack London's love life has given us a profound lesson: In order to achieve a life goal, it is necessary to life with all difficulties and obstacles on the road to do the life-and-death struggle, and daring to win. In the face of life and work of the difficulties and even life-threatening, we can not sit still; resistance only, Apart from the victory because we have no choice! This novel's main character in the face of many difficulties and obstacles, want to give up life and death choice is no longer easy, but he did not die willingly, he chose to fight. As a result, life must be pursued, it is necessary to live a very dynamic game, career achievements, we must learn to live in strong and learn to fight, so that we can live up to the life of the great trust in order to be worthy of life itself. , Is in the nature of the small, too small all over the floor as the grassland. But the tiny person because of the tenacity of life and conviction walked from time immemorial, has created a colorful civilization and wealth. Let us never embrace of the great, tenacious of life; let Evergreen Tree of Life!

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The novel opens with the famous line, It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.. and ends with two marriages: Jane and Bingley's, as well as Darcy and Elizabeth's. Both couples are assumed to live happily ever after.Elizabeth (Lizzy) Bennet is the core of the family. Elizabeth is the second of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's five daughters, and is an intelligent, bold, attractive twenty-year-old when the story begins. In addition to being her father's favourite, Elizabeth is characterized as a sensible, yet stubborn, woman. Misled by his cold outward behaviour, Elizabeth originally holds Mr. Darcy in contempt. However, she finds that Mr. Darcy improves on acquaintance, more so than she would expect.Fitzwilliam Darcy (commonly known as Mr. Darcy) is the central male character and Elizabeth's second love interest in the novel. He is an intelligent, wealthy, extremely handsome and reserved 28-year-old man, who often appears haughty or proud to strangers but possesses an honest and kind nature underneath. Initially, he considers Elizabeth his social inferior, unworthy of his attention, but he finds that, despite his inclinations, he cannot deny his feelings for Elizabeth. His initial proposal of marriage is rejected because of his pride and Elizabeth's prejudice against him; however, at the end of the novel, after their relationship has blossomed, he is happily engaged to a loving Elizabeth.Role of women in the 18th centuryIn late-18th-century England, women were relegated to secondary roles in society with respect to property and social responsibilities. For example, women were not permitted to visit new arrivals to the neighbourhood (such as Mr. Bingley in Pride and Prejudice) until the male head of their household had first done so. Women were under enormous pressure to marry for the purpose of securing their financial futures and making valuable social connections for their families. Therefore, marriage, though romanticised, was in many ways a financial transaction and social alliance rather than a matter of love. Although Jane Austen did not condone loveless marriages (she stayed single all her life), she did approve of matches having equality in various respects, including wealth, social status, love and character. In Pride and Prejudice, wealth, social status, chastity (and the perception of chastity) and physical attractiveness are depicted as factors affecting a woman's chances for a good marriage.Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby became an immediate classic and propelled its young author to a fame he never again equalled. The novel captured the spirit of the Jazz Age, a post-World War I era in upper-class America that Fitzgerald himself gave this name to, and the flamboyance of the author and his wife Zelda as they moved about Europe with other American expatriate writers (such as Ernest Hemingway). However, Gatsby expresses more than the exuberance of the times. It depicts the restlessness of what Gertrude Stein (another expatriate modernist writer) called a lost generation. Recalling T. S. Eliot's landmark poem The Wasteland (1922), then, Gatsby also has its own valley of ashes or wasteland where men move about obscurely in the dust, and this imagery of decay, death, and corruption pervades the novel and infects the story and its hero too. Because the novel is not just about one man, James Gatz or Jay Gatsby, but about aspects of the human condition of an era, and themes that transcend time altogether, it is the stuff of myth. Gatsby's attempts to attain an ideal of himself and then to put this ideal to the service of another ideal, romantic love, are attempts to rise above corruption in all its forms. It is this quality in him that Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, attempts to portray, and in so doing the novel, like its hero, attains a form of enduring greatness.The novel is narrated in retrospect; Nick is writing the account two years after the events of the summer he describes, and this introduces a critical distance and perspective which is conveyed through occasional comments about the story he is telling and how it must appear to a reader. The time scheme of the novel is further complicated as the history of that summer of 1922 contains within it the story of another summer, five years before this one, when Gatsby and Daisy first courted. This is the story that Jordan tells Nick. As that earlier summer ended with Gatsby's departure for the war in the fall, so the summer of Nick's experience of the East ends with the crisis on the last hot day (the day of mint juleps in the hotel and Myrtle Wilson's death) and is followed by Gatsby's murder by George Wilson on the first day of fall. This seasonal calendar is more than just a parallel, however. It is a metaphor for the blooming and blasting of love and of hope, like the flowers so often mentioned. Similarly, the novel's elaborate use of light and dark imagery (light, darkness, sunshine, and shadow, and the in-between changes of twilight) symbolizes emotional states as well.紅字The Scarlet Letter attained an immediate and lasting success because it addressed spiritual and moral issues from a uniquely American standpoint. In 1850, adultery was an extremely risqué subject, but because Hawthorne had the support of the New England literary establishment, it passed easily into the realm of appropriate reading. It has been said that this work represents the height of Hawthorne's literary genius; dense with terse descriptions. It remains relevant for its philosophical and psychological depth, and continues to be read as a classic tale on a universal theme.[6] Another consideration to note having to do with the book's popularity is that it was one of the first mass-produced books in America. Into the mid-nineteenth century, bookbinders of home-grown literature typically hand-made their books and sold them in small quantities. The first mechanized printing of The Scarlet Letter, 2,500 volumes, sold out immediately, was widely read and discussed to an extent not much experienced in the young country up until that time. Copies of the first edition are often sought by collectors as rare books, and may fetch up to around $6,000 USD.遠離塵囂Much of the plot of Far from the Madding Crowd depends on unrequited love — love by one person for another that is not mutual in that the other person does not feel love in return. The novel is driven, from the first few chapters, by Gabriel Oak's love for Bathsheba. Once he has lost his farm, he is free to wander anywhere in search of work, but he heads to Weatherbury because it is in the direction that Bathsheba has gone. This move leads to Oak's employment at Bathsheba's farm, where he patiently consoles her in her troubles and supports her in tending the farm, with no sign he will ever have his love returned.This novel focuses on the way that catastrophe can occur at any time, threatening to change lives. The most obvious example occurs when Oak's flock of sheep is destroyed by an unlikely confluence of circumstances, including an inexperienced sheep dog, a rotted rail, and a chalk pit that happens to have been dug adjacent to his land. In one night, Oak's future as an independent farmer is destroyed, and he ends up begging just to secure the diminished position of a shepherd.This novel offers modern readers a clear picture of how important social position was in England in the nineteenth century and of the opportunities that existed to change class, in either direction. In the beginning, Oak and Bathsheba are social equals: he is an independent farmer who rents his land, and she lives on her aunt's farm next door to his, which is presumably similar in value. The only thing that keeps her from accepting his proposal of marriage is the fact that she just does not want to be married yet. After Oak loses his farm and Bathsheba inherits her uncle's farm, there is little question of whether they can marry — their social positions are too different. She is more socially compatible with Boldwood, who owns the farm next to hers and is in a similar social position.