【正文】 e. 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。 he causes the poor minister to die daily a living death. He searches into the minister39。s heart with keen pleasure. He searches the minister39。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 bosom, which is not small acplishment. Secondly, Hester is the homophone of the word haste. At first, she gets married to Roger Prynne, an ugly man who gives his best years to feed the hungry dream of knowledge. Not having got the news about her husband who should have arrived by ship from England, she falls in love with Arthur hastily and gives birth to Pearl, for 6 which she is forced to wear the disgraceful scarlet letter A on her dress, which stands for adultery. Besides, prynne also has its symbolic meaning. Prynne is the homophone of the word purifying. The author not only explores the root of Hester‘s sin, but also believes that she can purify herself. After releasing from prison, she has the chance to move to another place .But she still choose to live in the place where she mitted sin. Finally, the townpeople even think her as the symbol of angel. . Arthur Dimmesdale Arthur Dimmesdale is a wellregarded young minister, whose initials are AD, which also stands for adultery. The author obviously tells us Author Dimmesdale is the partner in sin of Hester Prynne by giving him this name. The word Dimmesdale also has many symbolic meanings. Dim means dark and weak and dale means valley, so the dimdale here is actually a symbol of the diminterior of the clergyman. He loves Hester deeply, and he is the father of Pearl, but he is a coward. Dimmesdale is not courageous enough to tell the town that he was the one who mitted adultery with Hester and the one who deserved to stand in the scaffold with Hester and Pearl while they are being punished openly by the townpeople‘s stares and whispers. In contrast he tries to be a doubledealer, the honorable minister in the daylight and only show his passion for her in the forest or in darkness.. The punishment for him is not as obvious as that of Hester‘s—it‘s the remorse rooted in his own conscience and the torture sinuously imposed by the malicious revenger Chillingworth. The interior remorse and the exterior torture lead to the psychological and physical destruction of the hypocritical minister. In this sense, “ Dimmesdale suffers as much as Hester did。 Names Prynne Hester Prynne is one of the major characters in The Scarlet Letter. The writer gives her much symbolic meaning by giving her this name. And her name reflects her characteristic. Firstly, Hester sounds like Hestier, Zeus39。 by its original signification.(霍， 2021： 148) At this point, a lot of the townspeople realize what a noble character Hester possesses. Do you see that woman with the embroidered badge? It is our Hester – the town39。 strangers consider it queer while munity people frown upon it. After she is released, Hester lives in a cottage near the outskirts of the city. It had been built by an earlier settler, and abandoned, because the soil about it was too sterile for cultivation, while its parative remoteness put it out of the sphere of that social activity which already marked the habits of the emigrants. (霍， 2021： 75) Hester39。s bosom, is a symbol of her adultery against Roger Chillingworth. This is the puritan way of treating one as a criminal, for the crime of adultery. The puritan treatment continues, because as Hester walks on the streets, she will be looked down upon as if she is some sort of demon from hell that mits a terrible crime. This letter is meant to be worn in shame, and to make Hester feel unwanted. Here, she said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment…( 霍， 2021： 74) Hester is ashamed of her sin, but she chooses not to show it. She mits this sin in the heat of passion, and fully admits it because, though she is ashamed, she also receives her greatest treasure, Pearl. She is a very strong woman to be able to hold up so well against what she must face. Many will have fled from Boston, and seek a place where no one knows of her great sin. But Hester chooses to stay there, which shows a lot of strength and integrity. . Alone and Alienation 3 The sca