A book report on the book"The Scarlet Letter". It is an examination on the differences between the marketplace and the forest.

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Scarlet Letter The forest and the market place have such different atmospheres. People seem to change when they enter one place or the other. The forest is calm and people accept who they are and the life that they lead. In the market place people are arduously trying to lead a good puritan existence. The forest is a way for Hester and Pearl to live their lives. The forest represents Hester's life. She is isolated …

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…had an affair, he continues to keep it hidden and this slowly tortures them both. The market and Chillingworth push Hester and Dimsdale to depression and unhappiness. The forest is serene and quite, you can't help but notice that it is hiding something. This is how the townspeople saw Hester. The market was a social place that tortured Hester and Dimsdale. Chillingworth represented the town in which slowly caused Dimsdale and Hester to go mad.