In the chapter 6, Hester's strong sense of her child makes me very surprised, "……It was a face, fiend-like, full of smiling malice, yet bearing the semblance of features that she had known full well, though seldom with a smile, and never with malice in them. It was as if an evil sprit possessed the child, had just then peeped forth in mockery." She seemed to feel a strong sin against herself to impose on her baby. This makes me feel she can not forgive myself, this strong sense of guilt stuck her, it can be said that she could not get out, or do not want to get out of her own moral criticism. But also let me feel the Puritan was the law of fancy, and even the law as a code of conduct for all. At the same time, the author said, "……or no, her mother no imagined-from the unsearchable abyss of her black eyes." It makes me feel I have resonance with the author. …show more content…
Thoughts back to the present society, the text of the era of moral hypocrisy and the cruel reality until now are still the community to explore one of the themes.
The red text of the narrative has great openness, has been my social background, thinking and imagination. At the same time, I think the author has different ways to influence my judgment. Perhaps, this process is The Scarlet Letter to go beyond the times, charm is not bad, has attracted generations of readers one of the important
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