潘金莲与海丝特是东西方名著中两个既有相似命运又有不同遭遇的女人。《水浒传》中的潘金莲因与人通奸、谋害亲夫在文学史上惯有淫妇贱人的恶名,不但在作品中落得遭人唾骂、人头落地,在作品外也是毁多誉少。而《红字》中的海丝特虽亦犯有与人通奸之罪,却最终赢得了作品内外人物的同情谅解甚至尊敬。笔者认为她们同是追求爱情,同是与人通奸,过程与结局却又如此不同的原因就在于东西方不同的社会历史及与之相应的价值观和道德观在作者心灵深处形成的不同的投射。 Pan Jinlian and Hester are two women both of similar fate and different experiences in the East and West dynasties. In “Outlaws of the Marsh”, Pan Jinlian, who adultery and murder and injure her family, often used to be known as a prostitute in the literary history. Not only has she been reviled in the work, she has suffered a lot of people’s disappointment. Hester in the “Scarlet Letter”, though guilty of adultery with others, eventually won the sympathy and understanding of even the most respected figures both inside and outside the work. I think they are the same pursuit of love, the same adultery with people, but the process and ending are so different because of the different social history of the East and West and the corresponding values ​​and moral values ​​in the depths of the author formed different projections .