📖 The Scarlet Letter (Unabridged)

Believing that her husband had died when he failed to return from a voyage at sea, The Scarlet Letter's protagonist, Hester Prynne, begins a new relationship. However, when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock, Hester is publicly punished for adultery. Per her punishment, she is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress, denoting her as an adulterer to her peers. Additionally, she must stand in front of the town on a scaffold for three hours. As she is serving her time on the scaffold, Hester spots her supposed-to-be-dead husband. Enraged by Hester's infidelity, her husband adopts an alternate identity as a doctor so he can talk to her while she is imprisoned. Giving her an ultimatum, he insists she must keep his identity and their marital status a secret (to save his dignity after her public infidelity) or he will be forced to kill the father of her baby. Thus, Hester adopts a quiet life with her daughter as an outsider of the village, but she can never escape the scarlet letter still worn on her clothing. I recommend this novel as a literary classic for its social commentary on the unforgiving nature of society. Hester is reduced to the marking on her dress and shamed by her peers while simultaneously suffering from her own guilt. · A"

相信丈夫因海上航行未归而已经去世,红字的主人公赫斯特 普林开始了新的感情关系。然而,当她未婚怀孕时,赫斯特因通奸受到公开处罚。根据她的惩罚,她被迫在裙子上佩戴一枚红色的" 字,以示她是通奸者。此外,她还必须在镇上的脚手架前站立三个小时。在脚手架上度过她的时间时,赫斯特发现了她应该已经死去的丈夫。对赫斯特的不忠感到愤怒,她的丈夫扮成一名医生,以便在她被囚禁时与她交谈。他给她下了最后通牒,坚持要求她保守他的身份和他们的婚姻状况的秘密(为了在她公开不忠之后挽回他的尊严),否则他将被迫杀死她孩子的父亲。因此,赫斯特与她的女儿一起过着安静的生活,成为村庄的局外人,但她永远无法摆脱仍在她衣服上的红字。我推荐这本小说作为一部文学经典,因为它对社会的无情本质进行了社会评论。赫斯特被降为她裙子上的标记,并受到同龄人的羞辱,同时她自己也在感受着内心的负罪。