【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 nd fame, while Dimmesdale his life” （劉 ， 2021:76） . . Roger Chillingworth Roger Chillingworth, Hester‘s husband, like all of Hawthorne39。s main characters, 7 is plex and difficult to see through. He is a small and thin old man with dim eyes, a wrinkle face and deformed shoulders, and what is more, he is hypocritical .As for his name, the words chilling and worth pose the surname Chillingworth. Chilling es from the word chilly, which means this man is a merciless avenger. In the first place, he appears with the identity of a victim. But in fact, the hurt he suffers does not e from other people, but from the secret evil deep in his soul. Firstly, he married Hester, a woman with youth and beauty, deluding himself with the idea that intellectual gifts might veil physical deformity in a young girl39。s fantasy. He married Hester not because he loved her but because he wanted to light a household fire in his lonely and chilly heart. He is a bookworm who spends his best time in libraries, and shows no love to his young wife. Then, when he discovered his wife‘s adultery, he visits Hester in prison and pleaded for her not to reveal the fact that he is her husband. He has been ashamed to marry a disgrace woman. Instead of standing out, he soon bees obsessed with his new mission in life, and when he targets reverend Dimmesdale as the possible partner, he disguises himself as one trust friend of the minister, attaching himself to him as a parishioner. For seven years, he digs into the minister39。s heart with keen pleasure. He searches the minister39。s thoughts。 he causes the poor minister to die daily a living death. He searches into the minister39。s dim interior for a long time, and turns over many precious a tread, and as wary an outlook, as a thief entering a chamber where a man lies only half asleep,—— or, if it may be, broad awake,—— with purpose to steal the very treasure which this man guards as the apple of his eyes,(霍， 2021： 119) When he finally found the scarlet letter A on the bosom of the minister, he busted out a ghastly rapture. When he does these, he is turning from a victim to a sinner. Chillingworth also means that the avenger39。s life is worthless. When he finds his wife betrays him, he spends all his time on revenge. He gives up his identity, and his largest sacrifice is his own life. After spending so much time dwelling on his revenge, Chillingworth fets that he still has a change to lead a life of his own. So after Dimmesdale reveals his secret to the world, All his strength and energy——all his vital and intellectual force—— seemed at once to desert him。 in so much that he 8 positively withered up, shriveled away, and almost varied from mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun. （ 霍， 2021： 236) Chillingworth dies less than a year later because he has nothing left to live for. The poor forlorn creature is more wretched than his victim is—— the avenger had devoted himself. In all, Chillingworth is a horrible man of revenge and is also the symbol of evil. . Pearl Pearl is one of the most plex and misunderstood symbols in the book, Pearl, is the human symbol of the sin of adultery in the fact that she leads her mother, Hester Prynne, and Arthur Dimmesdale to accept and admit to their sin. Pearl is the beautiful daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. She is the living symbol of the scarlet letter and has unique traits that make her sometimes appear as a demon. The most significant symbolic meaning of Pearl in the novel is her association with the scarlet letter A. When Hester stood fully revealed before the crowd, it is her first impulse to clasp Pearl closely to her bosom。 not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress.(霍， 2021： 50) In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm… ( 霍， 2021： 50 ) Hester embroidered the scarlet letter with gold thread fantastically, and she had allowed the geous tendencies of her imagination their full playing contriving Pearl39。s garb. and, indeed, of the child39。s whole appearance, that it irresistibly reminded the beholder of the token which Hester Prynne was doomed to wear upon her bosom.(霍， 2021： 93) Pearl really was the scarlet letter, the scarlet letter in another form。 the scarlet letter endowed with life. Pearl is a girl of rich and luxuriant beauty. There was fire in her and throughout her。 she seemed the unpremeditated offshoot of a passionate moment.(霍， 2021： 93) Hester named the infant pearl, as being of great price,—— purchased with all she had,—— her only treasure! if Pearl had never been born, Hester would have never been found guilty of adultery, and thus never would have 9 had to wear that burden upon her chest. Without that burden, Hester would have led a much better life than the one she had throughout the novel. Although Hester has so much trouble with Pearl, she still feels that Pearl is her treasure. Pearl is really the only thing that Hester has in her life. Once and a while, Pearl will bring joy to Hester39。s life and