kespeare. He was born in a puritan family and many of his masterpieces are influenced by Puritanism. Among them, The Scarlet Letter has been casting into the limelight. There are four protagonists in the novel, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth and little Pearl. Due to impulse and solitude, Hester committed adultery, which shooked the puritans of Boston. Out of the magistrates¡¯ mercy, she was not condemned to death for her crime against society and Puritanism, but had to stand on the scaffold for several hours so that the townspeople may see her, the three-month little Pearl and especially the cloth scarlet letter ¡°A¡± which she wears on her bosom. The governor and the magistrates try their upmost to get Hester to name her lover, who is the respected Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, but in vain. However, this scarlet letter does not flee from the horrible perception of Hester¡¯s husband Roger Chillingworth, who is a physician. Making use of his profession, he finds a chance to live with Dimmesdale under one roof and destroy him step by step from his internal heart, until death, and at last Chillingworth change from a victim into a devil. Hester, through her endeavor to get along with her neighbors and do some favors to them, becomes ¡°Able¡± and ¡°Angelic¡± instead of ¡°Adultery¡±. Dimmesdale, after undergoing the tragic experience of both physical and spiritual degradation, dies an honest man in the end.
             The character analysis in The Scarlet Letter is quite successful that by analyzing, Hester, one of the main character, in the cline of plots, this paper concludes that the formation and transformation of Hester¡¯s character is a long and complicated process, it¡¯s the final result of the joint influences of history, sexism society, Puritanism, people around her and her own realization, speculation and actions.
            
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