《红字》读后感英文

The Scarlet Letter

Before I read this book, which written by Hawthorne, the book’s name drove me into thought, what content the book would show for me? Why it was named the scarlet letter. While now, it is clearly that the scarlet letter was what embroidered and illuminated upon the heroine’s bosom, Hester Prynne , in fine red cloth, stitched by fantastic flourished of gold thread. It is because that Hester was found guilty of adultery by a court of stern Puritan judges. By Hawthorne’s description, I always constructed the scene in my thought, the image of Hester, actually, she was the only character I praised in the book, though sometimes she was a woman with nervousness.

From the beginning to the end, Hester grew strong, for taking good care of little Pearl, being merciful to help people who rejected her first, as for these, gradually, the scarlet had been converted into good meanings, such as Able, copying with Roger Chillingworth, her husband, coming up with solutions for Arthur Dimmesdale, her lover. All the time, Hester suppressed her feelings, avoided any contention with people, except fought for the right raising little Pearl. With her light hand, little Pearl was dressed up as an angel, a

noble princess.

In fact, what attracted me so much was the dialogue among characters. This book was replete with so many descriptions about surroundings, characters’ image, psychology, which seemed a little bored for me. But every dialogue was the great presentation of the spirit of every character, and exciting. Especially when I read the later part, The Pastor and His Parishioner, the first time I began to feel the deep love between these two pitiful persons. But I thought Arthur was not worth Hester’s love, coward, sensitiveness, hypocrisy, remorse, all of these drove him into faint, sick, miserable, and being to die at last.

Roger was a hateful, but same poor character. During the last half of his life, he was triggered in the resentment. He turned from a scholar to a demon. Actually, I thought there was still goodness in his heart, just like he left his property to little Pearl. His change due to the resentment for Arthur, while, once Arthur confess himself in front of people, the truth had been revealed, and Arthur died at last, he had nothing to resent for, what held him all the time had broken down. The fate waiting for him was also death. I had a little sympathy for him, during his whole life, he didn’t feel love, except when Hester and he just married. After a long hard life, he had thought he would get love or warmth from Hester, but what he had