【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 he has done. She shows her rebellion well. Firstly, Hester has a passionate and loyal love to her lover Dimmesdale. Hester as an abstract scarlet letter came from a humble background. Her parents were impoverished but honest. She heard no more of her husband after he stayed in England two years ago. So Hester chose to fall in love with Dimmesdale. And also Hester believed that her love for Dimmesdale was just and reasonable. Love was humanity’s instinct. However, the Christian culture of the day denied this. According to Christ religious doctrine, a serpent tempted Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Then Adam and Eve started to understand the love and reproduced human beings by themselves without God’s creation. That itself was an original sin. So as for extramarital relationships between Hester and her lover, people thought it violated the seventh mandment of Christian. Therefore, almost all of people in the munity considered her as a sinful woman because of her love for Dimmesdale. Thankfully, though, Hester was lonely in the munity without anyone to rely on, she was spiritually strong and had the willpower. It is believed that Hester is really admirable because of her perseverance with love and unswerving loyalty to her lover. Even though be considered guilty by the Puritan, she is innocent, pure, and guiltless. In a word, Hester loves Dimmesdale with all of her heart. Secondly, Hester always does the good things to the people besides her to shows her rebellion. She has changed the meaning of “A” gradually. Although she leads an austere life and lives for nothing materially Hester embroiders her own “A” with her special ways and wild imagine. Since she wears roughtextured and dark and plain clothes Hester must wear the “A” of the scarlet letter. She regards “A” as a very valuable ornament instead of a sign of humiliation. The scarlet letter “A” which is florid and bright maybe signify her lover Arthur. Maybe it symbolizes her ideal faith—America. Some think that Hester shows the greatest selfdeception. They hold Hester believes that she can change her human nature and make up for what she is and has done through her charitable acts within the munity. She has bee an embodiment of mercy, but she has no charity in her heart. In fact, it is not so. Hester is a brave and admirable woman who shall eternize with her “A”. The inhabitant living in the munity held that Hester should feel repentant when she wore “A” on her breast. But she did not. She held that change should e from society, not within herself. She gave birth to a child Pearl. She asserted that Pearl kept her in life. She made Pearl to be an uncontrollable child who was subjected to hyperactivity, bad temper. Even her behavior could be classified as wild. Pearl was always depicted as nature’s child. While the other children in the munity played games taught by society and their parents, Pearl played in the forest and by the seashore with living flora and fauna. The letter “A” Pearl makes for herself is not red, but green—nature’s color. Ultimately, Hester begins to sense that many people besides herself wear scarlet letter on their dresses or breasts, even those with reputations for piety and purity: Could they be other than the insidious whispers of the bad angel, who would fain have persuaded the struggling woman, as yet only half his victim, that the outward guise of purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne’s?...Sometimes the red infamy upon her breast would give a sympathetic throb, as she passed near a venerable minister or magistrate, the model of piety and justice, to whom that age of antique reverence looked up as to a moral man in fellowship with angels. (Hawthorne 90) Thirdly, Hester exhibits her selfreliance and independence instead of giving in when facing the Community’s accusation. Hester supported both herself and her clever child Pearl with her skillful needlework. She felt free to pursue her own life in her own way. The author really admires her about her unremitting pursuit for life. She had always been struggled for her dream and her child. Her dream or aim was to make herself and Pearl live a wonderful and free life. Only after a bitter struggle was the aim achieved. Though shamed in front of her people for adulterous act, Hester stood proud and unrepentant with her child whose arrival trumpeted her sin. Hester is a symbol of selfreliance because she stays loyal to herself by daring to live beyond the petty rules of Puritan society: She hath good skill at her needle, that’s certain,” remarked one of her female spectators。 “but did ever a woman, before this brazen hussy, contrive such a way of showing it! Why, gossips, what is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for a punishment?” “It were well,” muttered the