At the beginning, he is an ordained (授予神职) minister, educated, modest, is a devoted servant of God, passionate in his religion and effective in the pulpit讲坛.
• The public memory of her original sin has been dimmed, and the Letter A which originally stood for ‘Adultery’ changed to 'Able’.
Women’s right and freedom
Psychological and physical struggle
• As a minister ,he's weekly calls upon people to confess and openly repent of their sins, while knowing that he himself is incapable of doing so .
The letter is the symbol of the lover of Prynne. Her experience of going to America and leaving America and finally back to America shows her pursuit of American freedom, the liberation of human nature and returning to her spiritual homeland.
• He struggles desperately to confess, punishing himself physically, and frequently coming right to the brink 边缘 of confession in his sermons.