红字英文读后感

红字英文读后感篇一
《红字英文读后感》

The Scarlet Letter offers an extraordinary insight into the norms and behavior of the 17th century if American Puritan society. The basic conflicts and problems of its main characters, however, are familiar to readers in the present. The female protagonist, has borne a child out of wedlock and has been jailed for over three months and sentenced to wear a symbol of her adultery, a scarlet “A” on her dress at all times. It concerns about the moral, emotional and psychological effect of the sin on people in general. It’s not simply a love story or a story of sin. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the scarlet letters to symbolize the harshness of Puritan society, showing how they brand sinners for life.

The story happened in Boston about 200 years ago. It narrates love affairs between three persons. The punished woman. Hester Prynne and his husband. Who called himself Roger Chillingworth . He is an old misshapen man and a doctor. Hester does not love him at all. Another man is a young minister, Dimmesdale, who has a high position among ministers and is highly respected among his people in town. Hester and Dimmesdale love each other. But their love is forbidden in that time . It is sinful. Due to this,Hester is punished by society with a letter A on her chest, which considered an evil, a shame.

In this novel, the mainline seems to be around the letter A. Hester is brave enough to face the cruel reality. She is always with a mind of courage. She has been alone with her child for so long , with litter communication. Shame! Hopelessness! Loneliness! Hester has to wear the letter A day after day, seven years as for punishment and ill fame.

When a woman has lived through a difficult experience, her character changes a great deal. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will leave her .Hester’s charitable deeds and quiet humility have earned her a reprieve from the scorn of the community. The letter on her chest represents her work on earth , always helping others, without expecting any thanks. Never afterwards, does that scarlet letter leave her chest. The townspeople no longer view the letter as a punishment , but rather as representing her great strength and bravery and thy say it means “Able”.

But Arthur Dimmesdale, his sin against Hester and Pearl is that he will not acknowledge them as his wife and daughter in the daylight. He keeps his dreadful secret from all those under his care in the church for seven years for fear that he will lose their love and will not be forgiven. He is too weak to admit his sins. He suffers from mysterious heart trouble, seemingly caused by psychological distress. What’s worse, he is an advisor to the townspeople about their sins.

After Mr. Dimmesdale’s death , no one changes more in appearance than Roger Chilling worth. All his strength and energy has been used to harm his patient . This unhappy man has made his aim in life to add to the suffering of the young minister. When the evil old man no longer has such a purpose, the devil takes him back to the hell . It is a curious subject of observation, however, whether hatred or love are not of the same place. Each takes a great deal of emotion from one person. The two feelings seem basically the same, expect that one is smiled upon by God, while the other is worshipped by the devil. The two lovers has ever decided to flee to Europe, where they can live with their dauthter Pearl as a family .They feel a sense of release there. However, their plan fails…… When Hester dies, she is buried next to Dimmesdale. The two share a single tombstone, with a deep colored letter A shining brightly.

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红字英文读后感篇二
《《红字》英文读后感》

《红字》英文读后感

The Scarlet Letter offers an extraordinary insight into the norms and behavior of the 17th century if American Puritan society. The basic conflicts and problems of its main characters, however, are familiar to readers in the present. The female protagonist, has borne a child out of wedlock and has been jailed for over three months and sentenced to wear a symbol of her adultery, a scarlet “A” on her dress at all times. It concerns about the moral, emotional and

psychological effect of the sin on people in

general. It’s not simply a love story or a story of sin. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the scarlet letters to symbolize the harshness of Puritan society, showing how they brand sinners for life.

The story happened in Boston about 200 years

ago. It narrates love affairs between three persons. The punished woman. Hester Prynne and his husband. Who called himself Roger Chillingworth . He is an old misshapen man and a doctor. Hester does not love him at all. Another man is a young minister, Dimmesdale, who has a high position among ministers and is highly respected among his people in town. Hester and Dimmesdale love each other. But their love is forbidden in that time . It is sinful. Due to this,Hester is punished by society with a letter

A on her chest, which considered an evil, a shame. In this novel, the mainline seems to be around the letter A. Hester is brave enough to face the

cruel reality. She is always with a mind of courage. She has been alone with her child for so long , with litter communication. Shame! Hopelessness! Loneliness! Hester has to wear the letter A day after day, seven years as for punishment and ill fame.

When a woman has lived through a difficult

experience, her character changes a great deal. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will leave her .Hester’s charitable deeds and quiet humility have earned her a reprieve from the scorn of the community. The letter on her chest represents her work on earth , always helping others, without expecting any thanks. Never afterwards, does that scarlet letter leave her

chest. The townspeople no longer view the letter as a punishment , but rather as representing her great strength and bravery and thy say it means “Able”. But Arthur Dimmesdale, his sin against Hester and Pearl is that he will not acknowledge them as his wife and daughter in the daylight. He keeps his dreadful secret from all those under his care in the church for seven years for fear that he will lose their love and will not be forgiven. He is too weak to admit his sins. He suffers from mysterious heart trouble, seemingly caused by psychological distress. What’s worse, he is an advisor to the townspeople about their sins.

After Mr. Dimmesdale’s death , no one changes more in appearance than Roger Chilling worth. All his strength and energy has been used to harm his

patient . This unhappy man has made his aim in life to add to the suffering of the young minister. When the evil old man no longer has such a purpose, the devil takes him back to the hell . It is a curious subject of observation, however, whether hatred or love are not of the same place. Each takes a great deal of emotion from one person. The two feelings seem basically the same, expect that one is smiled upon by God, while the other is worshipped by the devil.

The two lovers has ever decided to flee to Europe, where they can live with their dauthter Pearl as a family .They feel a sense of release there. However, their plan fails„„ When Hester dies, she is buried next to Dimmesdale. The two share a single tombstone, with a deep colored letter A shining brightly.

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红字英文读后感篇三
《红字英文版读书报告》

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classical novel in American literature in the 19th century. Since the first Chinese translation of The Scarlet Letter appeared in the 1950's scholars and readers in this country have shown an ever-increasing interest in his works. Its immortal enchantment lies in not only its condemnation of the negative impact of Puritan society on people's spirit, but also its affirmation of goodness. The novel aims at criticizing severely Puritanical asceticism, suggesting Hawthorne's further thinking over the "original sin" "good and evil" "soul salvation" "total depravity" by analyzing the four main characters in the novel. The novel concerns the consequence caused by the sin and people's attitude towards sin rather than the sin itself. He believes man can do good deeds to get rid of evil in his heart.

The introduction of the author:

Hawthorne was born in 1804, the town of Salem, Massachusetts, a decline of family. His Puritan ancestors had participated in the persecution of heretics was an event. Hawthorne's father was a captain, in his death at age 4. 1821, because of Hawthorne relatives is funding into the Institute of Hakata. He graduated from the school in 1825. Back to the Salem Town he works in writing. Hawthorne's short stories are mostly drawn from the New England history or real life, focusing on the fate of humanity and human problems. "The Scarlet Letter" was written in 1851.

A reasonable description of marriage by the young woman bound for the

Calvinists are guilty of adultery was prohibited public display, exposed the system was under the rule of colonial politics and religion in some of the darkness. 19th-century novel reveals the era of capitalist development, the United States Code, the law of social cruelty, religious deception and moral hypocrisy.

The story is followed like this:

The protagonist of the novel was a young woman named Hester who was punished to wear the scarlet letter “A” to signify that she was an adulterer.Her husband,Chillingworth,was a scholar much older than her.He sent her to America but he himself failed to arrive.While waiting for her husband,Hester fell in love with a local young minister named Dimmesdale.She had an affair with him and later gave birth to Pearl.Although she was shamed publicly on the town scaffold,she still refused to reveal her lover’s identity.In order to punish her,people forced her to wear the scarlet letter.Since then,she and her daughter Pearl lived in a cottage at the edge of the forest and was alienated by the rest of the community.However,this put her in a special position to observe and think about the society.Her lover,the young minister,lacked courage to confess his sin publicly,felt guilty and tormented himself both mentally and physically.And this gradually ruined his health.At the same time,Chillingworth disguised himself as a doctor and stayed in Dimmesdale’s home.For the sake of revenge,he tried very hard to find out

the connection between the minister’s anguish and Hester’s secret.Later,Hester revealed Chillingworth’s true identity to Dimmesdale and asked him to escape to Europe together.While the plain was destroyed by wicked Chillingworth.In the end,Dimmesdale confessed his adultery with Hester in his last sermon.He tore away his ministerial garments and revealed his breast,on which there was a same mark as the scarlet letter.People were totally shocked and the minister fell onto the scaffold and died.After his death,Chillingworth was left with no object for his revenge,he wasted away and soon died.Later,Hester and Pearl disappeared.This made the story of scarlet letter grow into a legend.Many years later,Hester suddenly returned to the town and resumed her charity work.Until the time of her death,she still wore the scarlet letter on her breast.Whereas,it was no longer the symbol of shame but the symbol of able and angle.

The analysis of the novel:

The Scarlet Letter also has literial and symbolic meanings,and its meaning shifts as time goes by.Originally,it intends to mark Hester as an adulterer,it’s a symbol of shame.But at the end of the story,it becomes a powerful social identity of Hester.She changed the meaning of the scarlet letter in people’s mind through her own effort: accepting the assigned identity and reconfrigurating it with quiet perseverance and inner strength.The main characters of the novel that the author figures

elaborately all have special functions.Hester,the heroine of the novel,is an intelligent,strong-willed and kind-hearted young woman who accepts her sin bravely and finally changes her unfair fate.Dimmesdale,an admirable and respectful minister of the town people,functions mainly as a contrast to Hester. Toward their sin,Hester chooses to accept it and reconfigurate herself.While Dimmesdale doesn’t dare to confess it publicly,it makes him feel guilty and suffer endless physical and spiritual torment,death is the only thing that can relieve him.Through the different fates of Hester and Dimmesdale,we can see the central idea that the author wants to present to us,namely ,the relationship between sin and humanity.Sin stands for the social-defined identity of people,while humanity is our self-defined identity.The way in which the society defines a person is often at odds with the way that individuals define themselves.In fact,sin itself is both guilty act and an act of affaction,it's a problematic combination of love and evil. Through the connection and conflict of sin and humanity,we understand the moral strength of human beings. Understanding of the novel:

From the story, we can see that the heroes live a "rather-die-than-live" life, and understand the meaning of living and death in Hawthorne' mind that is to living is to suffering and to atone for crimes while to die is to get relief from sins and rebirth in other world. In our society, the term “evil” has been replaced by terms such as

“madness” or “insanity”.People seem to feel the need to understand the minds of perpetrator of evil acts. In a society without a single and solid morality system , we human beings are endowed with exceptional freedom in conscious and behaviour, but we should also take more responsibility for ourselves and the others in the society.

红字英文读后感篇四
《《红字》读后感》

《红字》读后感

《红字》是不朽的作品，历史背景虽然和中国没有丝毫联系，但是任何的好的作品都可以跨越种族和历史，而被世人所爱。

很多人认为红字是爱情故事，当然这是个关于爱情的故事，但是我认为霍桑只是把他的追求，他的思想，他的情感溶在那个故事里而已。

海斯特爱丁梅斯代尔，但是真的是一直都爱吗？那是否就是爱？那难道不是一种沧桑的感情吗？因为那些苦难彼此的心紧紧相连，所以他们才能够见面后自然而然的内心平静的交谈，但是那就是爱吗？如果是爱，为什么丁梅斯代尔当初要虚伪的质问？海斯特站在刑台上真的是出于爱要保护牧师，还是只是既然已经站在那里了，就让事情发展下去的无奈和无助？牧师后来总是要拷问自己，折磨自己，难道真的是出于爱，而不是因为自己的逃避和虚伪令自己厌恶吗？海斯特坚强的活着，帮助大家，难道不是出于生命本身的坚韧？那和爱究竟有多大关系？至于他们在树林里的谈话，那么自然而然，那么激情澎湃，是爱情的原因还是对自由的向往？

如果说到爱，我认为那孩子珠儿才是爱的花身，她狂放，她敏感，她被母亲所爱，也爱着母亲，并且善于反抗和自我保护，我认为她才是红字的主角，A字只是个束缚但同时也是个区别于他人的标志。我认为那孩子的一切品性都是霍桑的向往。海斯特胸前的A字，牧师放在胸前的手，都象征着束缚，我想霍桑真心真意的想冲破这种束缚，他内心挣扎，向往自由，可是时代不允许，世俗不允许，他的无奈表现在结尾，牧师说出了心中的积郁，他释放了自己的心灵，但是他死了，他始终无法和海斯特自由的生活。海斯特带着珠儿离开了，那么她自由了吗？她回来了，而且至死连墓碑上都刻着那个A字，并且它和牧师的墓中间还有一段距离，那是霍桑对自己的嘲弄，他对时代和命运的无奈。而那个孩子，自由的化身，珠儿却没有太多结局，我们从只字片语中猜测，她嫁人了，富有了，生育了，但是那不确定的语气是不是反映出作者的不确定呢？是否表现了作者的犹豫呢？是不是象征了作者意识到想要逃离那个时代的希望是多么的渺茫呢？而且珠儿的幸福远在不所知的世界，那是不是又象征了作者想要逃避的心理呢？

另外，那个医生，畸形的医生，化名罗杰·齐灵渥斯，人们把他想象成恶魔，但是他是否也表了一种束缚？一种世俗的束缚？一种法律的束缚？毕竟他才是

海斯特的合法丈夫。海斯特和丁梅斯代尔的通奸行为至今在世界上也是被道德所不接受的，毕竟那是对家庭的背叛，且不说爱情，因为那个时代甚至当今也是存在无爱婚姻的，可是婚姻一经成立，是否该有应有的责任？这种责任是否可以那么轻易的以爱情的名义给摒除？所以我不认为医生是个恶魔，我愿意把他想象成冰冷的法律或是道德所规定的某些责任。他最后将全部财产给了珠儿，是不是也暗示了法律或是道德的无因性，即没有原因，只是应该那样而已。

红字中我还在意那个妖婆，那个地位很高，行动诡异的被人称为妖婆的那个妇人，我把她想象成上帝，她事事洞明，远离人群，是不是和上帝有些相像呢？但是她丑陋，她不受欢迎，那么是不是也侧面表现出作者对上帝的一些质疑呢？毕竟上帝是没有人见过的，他无所不能，但是他是否只是一个丑陋的老妇而已呢？上帝是那个时代的精神，但是这种精神是不是真的就是真理？是不是就是纯洁无瑕，牧师代表了纯洁但是他却虚伪并且懦弱，那么上帝是不是本身也不是什么纯洁无比的无所不能的呢？

我认为红字的中心是挣脱。

红字英文读后感篇五
《《红字》读后感》

字母“A”

——《红字》读后感

本想好好读完小说《红字》的英文版，可是作者霍桑在书中运用了大量的象征意，不免有些晦涩难懂。再者，我英语词汇本来就有所哦欠缺，所以这本小说读来可谓是异常艰辛。所以在读了一部分英文之后，我果断放弃了英文版著作，找来中文版小说，一睹为快。

刚看到这本书书名的英文注释，我就觉得有一丝疑惑，为什么“红字”不直接译为“the red letter”，反而取了“the scarlet letter”? 翻开书来，浅浅读来，就会知道到：红字，即“A”字。通奸罪（Adultery）、能干的（Able）、可敬佩的(Admirable)、爱情(Amorous)、天使(Angel)艺术(Art)、前进(Advance)、美国(America)。红字“A”在这个故事里有着如此不同的意思，他在霍桑的笔下蠢蠢欲动。这就是象征性小说的魅力。每个人能看到自己想看的。

小说的最开始，字母“A”是女主人公海丝特罪恶的象征。随着故事的发展，字母“A”最终成为了“能干”、“受钦佩”、“天使”等多重涵义的代名词。首先，“A”是字母表中的第一字母，也就意味着开始，基督教的观点认为开始是无人幸免的原罪，或是世界之初的堕落。海丝特是一个感情丰富、渴望幸福的女人。海丝特能做一手好活，凭借这种活计，海丝特拿出一点钱打扮自己的孩子。而其余的则捐献给慈善事业，施舍给穷苦百姓。海丝特天性善良，在人们遇到困难时，她都尽可能地给以帮助。这时“A”就成了能干(able)和天使(angle)的象征。再次，尽管海丝特对别人和社会奉献了很多，但在离去时，“决不回眸收受那份应得的感激之情”；甚至有时在街上遇到曾经帮助过的人，“她从不抬头来接受他们的致意，如果他们执意要搭汕。她便把手指放在红十字上，侧身而过”。久而久之，海丝特胸前的红字“A”就具有了与修女胸前十字架同样的作用。她的道德品质与行为方式也获得了人们的尊重。因此，红字“A”又被斌予了值得敬佩(admirable)的象征意义。红字“A”象征意义的演化足以证明海丝特的爱心，正是因为她内心充满了爱和同情，在她自己真实的爱的原则下，她付出了大量的充满人性之爱的行为以后．她不仅得到了社会的认同，也使得其胸前的红字“A”的含义在历经漫长的“痛苦”和“孤独”以后，从“通奸”变成了“自豪”、“能干”和“女强者”。小说中，海丝特是美好爱情的象征，同时她的欲望代表她人性中霍桑认

为“恶”的一面，她的灵魂的净化又是霍桑竭力推崇的道德行为。霍桑是矛盾的，一方面他同情海斯特和梅斯代尔的遭遇，一方面他又认为他们犯了错就必须得到惩罚。小说中弥漫着基督教的“原罪论”思想，禁欲主义剥夺了爱的权力。

小说中的人物都富于了象征意义，珠儿也是作者寓于象征意味的主要人物。珠儿是海丝特和梅斯代尔牧师的女儿。海丝特给她取名珠儿。因为在海丝特的眼里。珠儿是纯洁的．是强烈的激情碰撞后产生的爱情结晶。是支撑她面对冷漠现实的精神支柱。是一块值得她倾其所有而换得的无价之宝。倒并不是这个名字表达了她的相貌．她绝对没有珍珠的“那种恬静的洁白与淡泊的光泽”。从表面上看，珠儿是罪恶的小妖精，是罪恶的标志和产物。但是，珠儿更会让人联想到美好与纯洁，她体形完美，生机盎然，浑身散发着美丽的光环。小珠儿，使作品充满着一股迷人的魄力。

小说还表达了人要获得自由和解放就要去斗争的思想，这在海斯特的身上得到了体现。她一直抗拒着悲惨的命运，心里充满了对美好生活的向往，充满了无私的爱，这是难能可贵的一种精神。因为这样她才成为一个高尚的人，受到了人们的尊敬，从而洗刷了身上的耻辱，而那个红字也成了高尚的象征。

我觉得红字“A”对于不同的人来说代表着不同的涵义，这不同涵义的取向最终取决于一个人的心态，一个人对待生活的态度。胸前的红字并不可怕，真正可怕的是那刻在内心的红字。有时个人定位和如何对待他人的眼光可以决定一个人的一生，在必要的时候打破常规，大胆质疑世俗道德的合理性有时也推动着人性的发展。

作品的最后，在海斯特和丁梅斯代尔合用的墓碑上刻着这样一句话：“一片墓地上，刻着血红的A字。”这句话不可谓不意味深长。

红字英文读后感篇六
《红字 英文读后感 自己写的》

The Scarlet Letter

《The Scarlet Letter》written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel concerns souls.Everyone has his own soul.Someone defends his soul,someone does damage to it,even there are people who lose their own souls.In consequence,this world is filled with human stories in thousands of postures.

“A” is the first letter of the alphabetic which means the beginning of one thing.However,inn Christians‟ tradition, the beginning indicates deprivation and original sin that no one can get rid of.According to the Bible,we are all the seed of Adam.Nevertheless,Adam and Eve were punished by Jehovah for their stealing to eat love forbidden fruit.Owing to this,we,who are the descendants of Adam and Eve,are born guilty.In Puritans‟ eyes,Hester Prynne is a dissolute and immoral woman.They take Hester into custody just to show the dignity of God. So foolish people they are!An ugly woman cries:“This woman has brought shame upon us all,and ought to die.Is there not law for it? Truly there is,both in the Scripture and the statute book.”(2009:56)From this description,we can easily find that people there are so indifferent that they seem to be captivate by the church. We see,Hester is so common a woman who is dying for love and does not want to be forced to compromise to reality.“She had dark and abundant hair,so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam,and a face which,besides being beautiful from regularity of

feature and richness of complexion,had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes”.(57)Hester is such a good woman that she shows great love to her beloved--Mr Dimmesdale.This religious entanglement of emotions is difficult for people who have no religion belief to understand.I am such a person who can not understand.Religion has been part of the Westerners‟s life and it must be very painful to leave the religious life.But I do not have a religious experience, so it is hard for me to understand the hero's psychology. These are the obstacles for me to understand the novel and I find it hard to overcome it.

Hester‟s abundant emotions are not only indicated in her enthusiasm for love, but also her devotion to life, her utmost care for her daughter,and indomitable struggle against appress.Apparently,she submits herself to the adjustment and bears a lot to carry on her life.However,she keeps struggling with the puritanism inwardly.Here, in chapter 18,we can see the vivid words:“She and wandered,without rule or guidance,in a moral wilderness;as vast,the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate.Her intellect and heart had their home,as it were,in a decent place,where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.”(215)She insists that things she does with Mr Dimmesdale are pure.Hester lives in a small town,swallowing humiliation and bearing a heavy load,not that she wants to atone for her crime,but that she shows her resistance against puritanism.

Then,I would like to give some of my analyses upon the symbolism of the word „A‟.First, the most important one,A indicates the great Affection between Hester and Dimmesdale.She could escape from that place, but she is brave enough to face the reality and bear the sufferings on her own.Luckily,her warm heart wins people‟s acceptance.So,here, "A" is a symbol of Able.Finally,Hester with her virtues wins the respect of the people, "A" became the symbol of the Angel. With the development of the plot, Hester gradually moves towards awakening and mature, tenacious against the Puritan rule, and thus the "A" has the meaning of an indomitable woman-- Amazon.The letter A is a symbol of love and it also represents a punishment from the God. The presence of the scarlet letter saves the soul of Hester, regulates her virtues, make people painful but enjoy the regained life, the author gives A multiple meanings.

During this period,Dimmesdale is also in suffering,he can do nothing for Hester but to watch her being teased at ,and no matter how much he loves his daughter Pearl, he cannot let others know their true relationship between each other. He suffers from his conscience.He cried in the forest :“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! And Satan laughs at it!” (206) So here,A in Dimmesdale,is given another meaning--Agony.

Little Pearl brings me happiness when reading the novel.Maybe she

is the only bright character who can bring us cheers. She is the daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. First of all,the word “pearl”comes from the Bible which means a very precious thing.Recorded in the Bible, God allows a merchant to sell all their possessions to buy a pearl, and tells him that this pearl is his paradise.Hester pays a heavy price for the arrival of the Pearl. Daughter Pearl occupies a very important position in her heart, Pearl is all of her wealth.The “Scarlet Letter”was adapted into a film in 1994.Hester who is acted by Demi Moore in the movie looks just like a Pearl.

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The Scarlet Letter offers an extraordinary insight into the norms and behavior of the 17th century if American Puritan society. The basic conflicts and problems of its main characters, however, are familiar to readers in the present. The female protagonist, has borne a child out of wedlock and has been jailed for over three months and sentenced to wear a symbol of her adultery, a scarlet “A” on her dress at all times. It concerns about the moral, emotional and psychological effect of the sin on people in general. It’s not simply a love story or a story of sin. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the scarlet letters to symbolize the harshness of Puritan society, showing how they brand sinners for life.

The story happened in Boston about 200 years ago. It narrates love affairs between three persons. The punished woman. Hester Prynne and his husband. Who called himself Roger Chillingworth . He is an old misshapen man and a doctor. Hester does not love him at all. Another man is a young minister, Dimmesdale, who has a high position among ministers and is highly respected among his people in town. Hester and Dimmesdale love each other. But their love is forbidden in that time . It is sinful. Due to this,Hester is punished by society with a letter A on her chest, which considered an evil, a shame.

In this novel, the mainline seems to be around the letter A. Hester is brave enough to face the cruel reality. She is always with a mind of courage. She has been alone with her child for so long , with litter communication. Shame! Hopelessness! Loneliness! Hester has to wear the letter A day after day, seven years as for punishment and ill fame.

When a woman has lived through a difficult experience, her character changes a great deal. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will leave her .Hester’s charitable deeds and quiet humility have earned her a reprieve from the scorn of the community. The letter on her chest represents her work on earth , always helping others, without expecting any thanks. Never afterwards, does that scarlet letter leave her chest. The townspeople no longer view the letter as a punishment , but rather as representing her great strength and bravery and thy say it means “Able”.

But Arthur Dimmesdale, his sin against Hester and Pearl is that he will not acknowledge them as his wife and daughter in the daylight. He keeps his dreadful secret from all those under his care in the church for seven years for fear that he will lose their love and will not be forgiven. He is too weak to admit his sins. He suffers from mysterious heart trouble, seemingly caused by psychological distress. What’s worse, he is an advisor to the townspeople about their sins.

After Mr. Dimmesdale’s death , no one changes more in appearance than Roger Chilling worth. All his strength and energy has been used to harm his patient . This unhappy man has made his aim in life to add to the suffering of the young minister. When the evil old man no longer has such a purpose, the devil takes him back to the hell . It is a curious subject of observation, however, whether hatred or love are not of the same place. Each takes a great deal of emotion from one person. The two feelings seem basically the same, expect that one is smiled upon by God, while the other is worshipped by the devil. The two lovers has ever decided to flee to Europe, where they can live with their dauthter Pearl as a family .They feel a sense of release there. However, their plan fails…… When Hester dies, she is buried next to Dimmesdale. The two share a single tombstone, with a deep colored letter A shining brightly.

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Pearl: Hester’s child. As her name suggests, she is something good that came from sin. She is also a constant reminder–to Hester and to the townspeople–of Hester's sinfulness. At times, she is an unruly child, a burden to her mother. But Hester loves her just the same