The Scarlet Letter

By the reading of the book, and the movie shown in the class, there are three main characters I want to talk about.

Hester Prynne was absolutely the most important character in this whole book. Although she acted as such a beautiful and kindhearted person, she was still punished for the adultery. I think she was also a brave woman as well. From the movie, as we saw, she was walking to the stage with a Red Scarlett Letter on her chest. Although she was watching, laughing and blaming by the others people, she still stayed calm and composed. Her every step was so resolute and firm that she did not think herself a guilty woman. I think it reflected her deep love to the “partner”, the other young man she was not willing to speak out. In the later section, she showed a great love to her child, and tried to protect her, when her real husband, Roger Prynne, was going to get the child from her hands.

Roger Prynne, an old English doctor. As we know, he was the husband of Hester. I believe he still loves Hester though the talk in the prison. He looked so disappointed, upset, even a little mad at his wife. He was talking so aggressively, and guaranteed would find out the “father” of the child.

The last one is Aruther Dimmesdale. He was sham in my view since he was keeping trying to make Hester speak out the name while he seemed not want to. I still cannot get this man totally, and I hope I could learn more about him later in the book.

Overall, in my opinion, Hester is decent and innocent. The reason why she suffered such a situation was because of the thoughts of the people at that time period. They were too conservative and could not accept the new ideas, or new ways of dealing with women, especially the marriage problems. Meanwhile, there are a lot of things we could not give a reasonable answers, and I hope we can find out the truth in the further reading. In short, the story is getting more and more interesting.