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Hawthorne deeply gave the heroine infinite sympathy because she couldn t enjoy real love, happiness and normal life while he described the atonement of Hester, which represents Hawthome s resentment to the fact that Puritanism constrains the human nature . “ We have wronged each other, mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay . ” “我们彼此都让对方受了委屈 , 是我 先委屈了你，我把你含苞的青春同 我这朽木错误地、不自然地嫁接在 一起，从而断送了你。“ Dimmesdale was selfish and false, and lived in the contradictory and misery state accompanying by the criminal psychology. He was straggling on the edge of the spirit and the flesh coming breakdown, and he was beat and lashed by the so called articles of religion “ the gory whip at every moment, which caused him not to get peace even for a moment. It must be considered that he continued to be engaged in the pure mission of a priest with the criminal body should be a great affront （冒犯） to God and a deception to the followers. Eventually, Dimmesdale told the secret in mind with divine courage,henceforth, he obtains peaceful and the newborn of spirit. At the end of the novel, he died tragically in confession and atonement and became a victim in religious monasticism( 修道院生活方式 ) . Chillingworth, as a victim was turned into a mischief-maker, even a more severe sinner. He is calm on the surface, but is wicked in mind, and when he knew his wife s unchastity （不贞） , he was filled with revengeful ideas in his mind. He depended on wisdom to become a demon by himself for seven years; he stayed in the same room with Dimmesdale cunningly to ravage and wreck the pained heart, and he took this as the goal of the living, and then he tormented Dimmesdale by means of wicked and masterly measures to gobble up his soul and had reached the extremely ruthless degree. May God forgive us both! We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted