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All the characters in the book are guilty, but their attitudes towards sin are different, and the results are also different. For example, Hester publicly confessed her sin, penance and Atonement, and finally turned the sign of sin on her chest into a sign of virtue, a saint and an "angel"; Dimmesdale was hiding his sin, tortured, exhausted his energy and talent, finally took the courage to repent and confess his sin, died after moral rehabilitation, and became a martyr: Chillingworth began to try to expose his sin, but bent on revenge to harm others and himself, but turned himself into a devil and a real sinner. People who suffer do not know the intensity of the pain at the time of suffering, but often feel the pain after the event This scaffold is a platform of neck and hand flail, on which stands the neck and hand flail for punishment. The flail cover tightly clamps people's head and neck, so that people have to lead their neck and tilt their heads for people to see No other atrocity is more contrary to the humanity of ordinary people: no matter what mistakes a person makes, no other atrocity is more sinister and ferocious than not allowing sinners to hide their faces because of shame It proves that a person can turn himself into a devil by relying on his own function as long as he is willing to take the post of the devil for a long time. No one can make up one face for himself for a long time and show another face to everyone, because such a person can't figure out which one is the real face in the end