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ive young girl when she is married. She needs being loved and accompanied, and longs for a rich and colorful life. But her husband never realizes her feeling and makes her entrap into solitude. So she falls in love with Dimmesdale, from then on, plants the origin of their subsequent sorrows and tortures. According to the moralists, although she is a degraded woman, her so—called degradation should be attributed to her tragic marriage. Apart from that, Puritanism is another cause to her poor fate. The Scriptures demand death for adultery, and the Puritan laws closely follow the Biblical pattern. The Puritan “fathers” stress fidelity in marriage and the sacredness of the family. Thus, the “laws” between by Hester and Dimmesdale are the seventh commandment of Decalogue, and Hester’s crime of adultery can only be punished by death. In Hester’s opinion, even though their marriage ends in a failure, Chillingworth is still her husband and it is immoral to have an intimate relationship with another man. So at an accidental sight of her lost husband, she dares not to face him and is frightened to be asked about the identity of the baby’s father, for she realizes that if she tells the name of the baby’s father, her husband must take revenge against him. That is to say, Hester is a brave and controversial woman. On one hand, she longs for the romantic love. On the other hand, she dares not incompletely betray her husband. She is a sexy woman with oriental women’s characteristics. As a young and beautiful girl, but get married to a physique abnormal man, she cannot feel the love. After her husband disappeared, the young pastor—Dimmesdale intrudes into her lonely life. She falls in love with him. To her, many unsuspected tendencies of her impulsive and passionate nature are revealed to her. The “oriental characteristics” of her temperament, her ardent love of beauty, her native energy and capacity,—such elements need a strong and wise person to curb and guide them, scarcely disguised by the light of her innocent and womanly charm. Hester, as a social outcast, finds no invitation to repentance in the law that crushes her. The only alter native it offers her is abject self-extinction, or defiance. Man has marked Hester’s sin by a Scarlet Letter, which has such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy could reach her. Although she sets herself apart from society, she doesn’t have the innocent that allows her to do or say anything without a good excuse. B. Camilla’s Confidence Camilla is a socialite by birth and by nature, born into the English elite circle in 1947, like other girls of her station, is groomed for a place in society. Camilla is athletic and enjoys the outdoors and traditions like hunting and fishing. She isn’t particularly clothes-conscious but she always exudes a sexy confidence over men. She never spends much time on her hair or her nails which are always rather stubbly and bitten and dirty. But Camilla is definitely a success in her circle. Charles and Camilla experience a longstanding relationship that continues on- and-off. Finally, Charles is marrying Camilla. Camilla doesn’t have good looking and grace of the late Princess Diana, but one thing is for sure, unlike the relationship Charles had with Diana, Charles truly loves Camilla. Not many of us are willing to pursue the same woman for over 30 years. Camilla is a blunt, down-to earth, and humorous person. According to her way of living, she is an absolutely confi