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The Scarlett Letter, Symbolism
Title: The Scarlett Letter, Symbolism
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 605 | Pages: 2.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Scarlett Letter, Symbolism
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism several times in the book, The Scarlet Letter. Some examples of this are when they talk of the scaffold, the brook, the forest, and the sunshine. The one that I will discuss is the sunshine. Hawthorne uses sunshine in the novel to symbolize purity and hope several times throughout the book.
In one scene of the book, Pearl requests that Hester grab some sunshine and give it to her to play with. Hester then replies, "No, my little …showed first 85 words of 605 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 605 total…was pure again and full of hope, so the sunshine was no longer afraid of her, it embraced her.
In conclusion, the frequent use of the sunshine, showing purity and impurity, is used well by Hawthorne. He does a great job of illustrating Hester’s situation and how she goes from an unwanted outcast, when she was shunned by the sun, to where she was a good, able citizen and received penance and lost the shameful "A", and the sun would shine upon her again.
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