Scarlet Letter's Use Of Symbolism To Show Psychological Effects Of Sin
"The actÂ…gross and brief, and brings loathing after it." This was
said by St. Augustine, regarding immorality. This is discovered to be very
true by the main characters in The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne's
story of a woman (Hester) who lives with the Puritans and commits adultery
with the local minister (Dimmesdale). In his novel, Hawthorne shows that
sin, known or unknown to the community, isolates a person from their
community and from God. He shows us this by symbols in nature around
the town, natural symbols in the heavens, and nature in the forest.
First we see two symbols in the town that show how sin isolates people.
In the first chapter we see a plant which stands out, "But on one side of the
portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rosebush, coveredÂ…
with its delicate gems" (Hawthorne, 46). This rosebush is like Hester, for it
too stands out as wild and different. She wears her scarlet letter among the
solemnly......
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