将美国作家纳撒尼尔·霍桑小说《红字》中的女主人公海丝特.白兰与鲁迅的小说《祝福》中的女主人公祥林嫂相比较,通过对这两位处于不同民族、不同文化、不同社会背景下人物的心理及行为特征进行对比分析,揭示出她们面对相似精神压力下所持的态度及不同的命运结局,体现了两位作者在寻求妇女解放道路中不同的世界观和文学观,目的是更好地理解两位妇女的悲剧命运所表现出的社会意义。 Compared with the heroine Xianglinsao in Lu Xun’s novel Blessing, Hess Prynne, the heroine of the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter”, compares these two different nationalities, Culture and different social backgrounds, revealing their attitudes and different fate outcomes in the face of similar mental pressures, reflecting the differences between the two authors in their search for different world views and literature in the course of women’s liberation The purpose is to better understand the social significance of the tragic fates of the two women.