The scarlet letter \"A\" was a sign of shame, but since Hester weared it, it isn’t hard to find thathawthorne has repeatedly mentioned that Hester\'s chest \"A\" is \"the details made with gold thread embroidery\", and repeated words such as \"embroidery\".At this point, the writer has indicates to the readers his sympathy for Hester, also implies the heroine have an ability which she can be proud of, namely \"arrogance\".This ability will be much more than her crime and ugly.In the proce of hardships, Hester wasn’t ignorance anymore and she realizes many things in order to gain a new life.Neither the Puritan laws nor the persecution can conquer her in spirit.Torment arouses her potential moral energy and makes her become a brave and smart women .She found out her own strength.\"She uses different eyes to look at\' civilized \'society which abandons her, not observing its rule.\" She believes: \"her adultery is neither offending god nor violating his own nature, and it also didn\'t commit any crime to community.\" She never work against the public, always endured the worst treatment without complaint.She does ask people for reward, and she doesn\'t depend on public sympathy, and she never asked to share a spark the privileges of the world.She has a natural personality and rare talent.\"She is merciful and kind, willing to put all superfluous wealth to poor people who are not more unfortunate than her and often insult people who is benefiting them.With the development of the story, the \"A\" recognized as evidence slowly has many other meanings.The scarlet letter\" A \"is a kind of magic, made her super dust free from vulgarity, devoid of normal human relationship.The “A” ’ s symbolic meaning changed from puritan’s thought of \" adultery \" into \" able”,\" angel \",\" admirable \" and so on.The scarlet letter is a symbol of Hester\'s love and rebellion, it is a ray of dazzling light through the darkne of the Puritan society,.Her image rises from A low level gradually, on her chest, mediocre people only see the\" A \"word\'s body, and noble people see the soul of\" A \"word!
In the scarlet letter, JiLing nest is Hester\'s husband, and he should be the object of sympathy,but in hawthorne\'s works, he became a diabolical role, became a synonym for evil.In the first scaffold scene, JiLing nest recognized the woman who with scarlet letter on chest and embrancing a baby is his wife.As the instinct of A man, he feels ashamed for his wife’s embarrament at the moment .Look back JiLing nest and Hester\'s marriage, he married Hester did not because of true love, but to restore his own youth.Their marriage is deformed, and it is unfair to Hester.That means JiLing nest’s human nature is not normal, human nature is evil, and it naturally he launched the revenge to Arthur Dimmesdale.JiLing nest thought that revenge means let the other side feels worse than death , and struggles in pain .In order to revenge, he became anonymity,and lived a hard life.In order to revenge, he spyings on Arthur Dimmesdale heart all the time, tortures Arthur Dimmesdale’s mental every moment, wants to make Arthur Dimmesdale\'s soul perish.To Hester, he let the searing burn in her chest.It reflect JiLing nest’s Abnormal psychology.When He pretended to be a doctor and cure Arthur Dimmesdale ,he trys to stimulate and torture the young priest until that horrible secrets and the pastor was buried together.If the pastor can tell the secret to others when he is alive , that would be great.Arthur Dimmesdale finally want to speak the extent of their crimes,but JiLing nest has tried to block, because he wants to continue to torture the young pastor, it says more about JiLing nest of abnormal psychology.Nonethele, JiLing nest was not happy for it, after Arthur Dimmesdale’s death, JiLing nest withered due to lo of revenge object, it also illustrates the JiLing nest’s abnormal human nature.In short, the scarlet letter A for different characters in it has different symbolic significance.With the development of the plot, the characters of time, place, the change of the words and deeds, the meaning of the scarlet letter A is also changing.
