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rward a question that whether Hester admits her sin or not, and her love is really sinful. The dominant concern in the novel is the moral, emotional, and psychological effect on the people in general and those implicate in it in particular. Puritanism is the ultimate reason that influences on Hester’s whole life. American Puritanism stresses predestination, original sin, total depravity, and limits to gain atonements from God’s grace. It is based on the Biblical myth of the Garden of Eden. Hester’s adultery is viewed as a threat to the Puritan community in which she lives. As is known to all, sin and knowledge are linked in the Judeo-Christian tradition. The Bible begins with the story of Adam and Eve who are expelled from the Garden of Eden for eating of the fruit of the trees of the garden and knowing good and evil. Adam’s degeneration makes people have original sins, but it also gains God’s grace. God’s grace has double standard, parallel justice and charity, and love with the law. That is why Puritans wants Hester to wear “A”. Namely, we shouldn’t forget requirements of God’s justice while we gain God’s grace. Legal sanction is necessary, because Adam’s degeneration has already made rationality and emotion be parted. Thus it loses God’s integrity faith. It is difficult for novelist to identify some helpless relief. Hester and Dimmesdale’s story is like the story of Adam and Eve’s. After falling in love in an instant, there is the myth of human origin, and there is also evil. The experience of Hester and Dimmesdale recalls the story of Adam and Eve, because in both cases, sin results in expulsion and suffering. But it also results in knowledge, especially, in knowledge of what it means to be human. When Hawthorne chooses a potential human love to explore the “evil”, he has never let himself get rid of confusions and contradictions. As Adam said: “This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.” And to the woman he said: “Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.” (Duan Qi, 1994, 55). This opinion affects women’s status in society. Religion aggravates the inequalities between men and women, at the same time it supports men’s great atrocities to women. It is precisely because of women subordinate status which has been designated that they suffer from the gender discrimination. Religious prejudice and secular moral punishment let them pay a heavy price. Whatever they are ancestral sins, moral sins or social sins, Hawthorne’s works all dig deeply into the dark sides of human nature The Scarlet Letter scrutinizes early American puritanical society which shows how rigid, suffocating and hypocritical it could be. Hester rebels against the Puritan ethic and longs for real life, with genuine wholesome values based on love, not on controlling. Namely, she is the opposite extreme of the puritans. B. Condemn From Royal Family and the Public towards Camilla Camilla Parker-Bowles is the second wife of Britain's Prince Charles. She is in modern society, but as a woman, she still doesn’t completely control her life and her true love. She doesn’t still get rid of the secular’s prejudices and church pressures. What’s more, the royal family is arrogant. A couple being separated is seen as the modern version of Romeo and Juliet. In front of the royal family, history doesn