【正文】 nalization of this demonization of Chillingworth, claiming, “We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man’s revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!”[12] Dimmesdale simply ignores the wounds they have instilled on Chillngworth. This oversight accentuates the doubts in the heart of readers. They cannot help asking whether Hester and Dimmesdale really deserve of their sympathy, and Chillingworth deserves of their revulsion?Dimmesdale is also a source of moral uncertainty in the novel. The character of the “pollute priest” is a mon one, and is mentary on the impossibility of attaining the purity of God on earth. Corrupted by sin and living the lie of holiness, Dimmesdale wonders if his charade is necessary to ensure that God’s work is acplished on earth. 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With heaps of time, the sevenday Chinese請(qǐng)您刪除一下內(nèi)容，O(∩_∩)O謝謝?。。ational Day holiday could be the best occasion to enjoy a destination. However, it can also be the easiest way to ruin how you feel about a place and you may bee more fatigued after the holiday, due to battling the large crowds. During peak season, a dream about a place can turn to nightmare without careful planning, especially if you travel with children and older people. As most Chinese people will take the holiday to visit domestic tourist destinations, crowds and busy traffic are inevitable at most places. Also to be expected are increasing transport and acmodation prices, with the possibility that there will be no rooms available. It is also mon that you39。 she is a constant reminder to Hester of her sin. For instance, when we are introduced to Pearl, she is immediately drawn to the scarlet A on Hester’s bosom:But the first object of which seemed to bee aware of wasshall we say it? the scarlet letter on Hester’s bosom! One day, as her mother stopped over the cradle, the infant’s eyes had been caught by the glimmering of the gold embroidery about the letter, and putting up her little hand, she grasped at it, smiling not doubtfully, but with a decided gleam that gave her face the look of a much older child. [20] In one of the most dramatic scenes in the novel, Pearl prevents Hester from escaping her sin and shame. Pearl “burst into a fit of passion”[21] and will not go to her mother until she puts the scarlet A back on her bosom and places her hair back underneath her cap. In the one moment that Hester attempts to escape her sin, Pearl refuses to acknowledge her until she returns to the shameful mother that she has always known. In this sense, to Hester, Pearl is a persistent remembrance to the scarlet A, which she must bear on her bosom. Pearl was really the scarlet letter, because if she had been born, Hester would probably have never been found guilty of adultery upon her bosom.To Dimmesdale it is clearly an announcement of his adultery. The appearance of the scarlet letter in the sky may have been figment of Dimmsdale tormented mind or it could really have been a meteoric phenomenon. Even when Dimmsdale finally bares his chest, the author does not say directly the scarlet letter was there. He just hints at the possibility of its physical presence as having Chillingworth look in horror and with “a wild look of wonder, joy”[22] at his chest and having Dimmesdale constantly placing his hand on his chest.V. ConclusionThroughout a period of one century and a half, The Scarlet Letter has been inviting not decreasing enthusiasm among critics and ordinary readers, and one of the important reasons for this might as well goes to Hawthorne’s use of ambiguity. The multiple readings and different interpretations of the novel provide both challenge and pleasure to its readers.Hawthorne’s ambiguity forces readers to reinterpret for themselves. This paper mai