The author of this paper holds the view that Dimmesdale, different from Hester, is a contradictory character with conflicting emotions and that the sharp conflicts intricately demonstrated between his conscience and reality, between reality and his ideal, and in turn, his ideal and conscience finally fall into an inextricable knot in which Dimmesdale wrestles, wriggles, and is strangled.
三个方面的矛盾交织，纠缠，结成一个解不开的结，使丁梅斯德走向毁灭的边缘。