multiple personalities in "The Scarlet Letter" written by Nathaniel Hawthorn

        'The path strangled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest'(179). This sentence displays just one of the multiple personalities that the forest symbolizes in The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorn. As seen in the epic story Wizard of OZ, the forest represents a place of evil and delight, but in the Scarlet Letter the forest symbolizes much more then that. Each character brings out a different side of the forest, however the forest …

…most symbolized objects in the entire story. It is one thing that can bring joy, sorrow, freedom, and evil to your life, but most of all the forest brings you truth. Once you walk into the forest lies no longer exist. This is show in every example given, that the truth comes out in the forest no matter what. Maybe that is why these characters go there, because it is the only place truth exists.