H---- Hester Prynne 海斯特白兰 C---- Roger Chillingworth罗杰奇 林渥斯 D----Dimmesdale 代尔
Heroine H married to C, who was old and ugly and devoted his whole life to studying. There was no love between the couple. But H and minister D loved each other. And H gave birth to a daughter called Pearl. According to Puritanism, they committed adultery. H was punished in public and had to wear the scarlet letter----A standing for adultery in her life as a lifelong sign of her sin. But she had a strong will and refused to say who the child’s father was. H’s long separated husband C came back from Britain and discovered her relationship with minister D. Also he knew what had happened with the scaffold, so he decided to find the child’s father to revenge. He disguised as a doctor. D suffered from his beliefs and conscience in long time and became thin and pallid. People asked D and C to live together to treat his illness. Living together provided the opportunity for C to revenge. So C tormented the poor minister unceasingly in vicious and clever method. At last, D can’t endure C’s humiliation and inner torment any longer, he committed his sin in public and died in H’s arms. H sustains all humiliation and proved to be a strong---minded and capable woman. As she is ready to offer help and advice to other women in trouble, she was loved and respected by people in the town. She continued her life of penance and became a model of endurance, goodness, courage, and victory over sin.
