Symbols Setting the Scene in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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One might say that symbols are the most important things in a story, and that they unlock the secrets of a novel. Hawthorne, in The Scarlet Letter, uses many symbols to represent different things. Some symbols represent the same thing. The letter "A" has many meanings, each character has their own meanings, and even the different parts of nature are symbols. Also, apart from providing structure for the novel, each scaffold scene conveys something different. …
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…his stories. Works Cited: <Tab/>Baym, Nina "Passion and Authority in The Scarlet Letter" The New England Quarterly 43.2 (June 1970): 209-230 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter. Bantam Books, New York, New York 1850 <Tab/>Levy, Leo B. "The Landscape Modes of The Scarlet Letter." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 23.4 (March 1969): 377-392. <Tab/>Whelan, Robert Emmet Jr. "Hester Prynne's Little Pearl: Sacred and Profane Love" American Literature 39.4 (January 1968): 488-505.
…his stories. Works Cited: <Tab/>Baym, Nina "Passion and Authority in The Scarlet Letter" The New England Quarterly 43.2 (June 1970): 209-230 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter. Bantam Books, New York, New York 1850 <Tab/>Levy, Leo B. "The Landscape Modes of The Scarlet Letter." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 23.4 (March 1969): 377-392. <Tab/>Whelan, Robert Emmet Jr. "Hester Prynne's Little Pearl: Sacred and Profane Love" American Literature 39.4 (January 1968): 488-505.
