The feeling after reading the scarlet letter

The novel takes the Colonial America as the theme more than 200 years ago, but what it reveals is the cruelty of social laws, religious deception and moral hypocrisy in the United States of America in the era of capitalist development in the 19th century. Hester, the protagonist, is portrayed as the embodiment of lofty morality. She not only influenced the duplicity of Dimmesdale, but also influenced the society full of evil.