《巴黎圣母院》中的弗洛诺和《红字》中的齐灵窝斯分别在他们特定的年代和环境中从事代表某种先进科学和进步理念的炼金术,堪称“准科学家”。前者的炼金术目的直指政治,后者代表炼金术的医药化学发展方向。对两部小说中有关炼金术的描写作跨学科考察,可使读者切实领略到一些以往分析评论所没能涉及到的新东西,从而在很大程度上丰富和深化这两部文学名著的历史现实认识意义。 Floron in Notre Dame de Paris and Chillingoth in the Scarlet Letter are all alchemists representing certain advanced scientific and progressive concepts in their particular age and environment, . The former alchemy aimed directly at politics, the latter on the direction of development of medicinal chemistry of alchemy. The interdisciplinary investigation of descriptions of alchemy in the two novels enables readers to truly appreciate the new things that some previous analyzes and criticisms have failed to cover and thereby greatly enrich and deepen the history of the two famous literary works Realistic significance.