This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt,punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th century New England.The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence,but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's ... (展开全部) This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt,punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th century New England.The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence,but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.
The scarlet letter 在书中是ignominiousness的表现,但是在我看来是Hester坚强的另一面的表现。在open的现在看来,Hester只不过是选择了自己喜欢的人,做了自己想做的事,但在当时像是犯了杀人放火的滔天大罪一样遭人唾弃和蔑视。这一点姑且不论。Hester的丈夫,那个所谓的physi......