一、引言《红字》是美国19世纪杰出的浪漫主义小说家纳撒尼尔·霍桑的不朽之作。小说创作于1850年,以17世纪的波士顿为背景,描写了清教主义的残酷和对人性的扼杀。文学评论家从不同角度对小说中的象征意义、叙事技巧、宗教原型等进行了分析。生态女性主义是环境运动和女性运动相结合的一种文学思潮,剖析在父权制世界观和二元式思维方式统治下对女性与自然界的压迫本质,倡导建立一种人与人、人与自然 I. INTRODUCTION “The Scarlet Letter” is the immortal work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, an outstanding 19th-century romantic novelist. In 1850, the novel was written in the 17th century in Boston, depicting the cruelty of Puritanism and stifling human nature. Literary critics analyze the symbolism, narrative skills and religious prototypes in the novels from different perspectives. Eco-feminism is a kind of literary trend of thought combining environmental movement with female movement. It analyzes the oppressive nature of women and nature under the rule of the patriarchal world view and dualistic thinking mode, and advocates the establishment of a kind of human-nature, human and nature