The Scarlet Letter Essay The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an intriguing novel that uses romanticism and symbolism to depict a natural setting throughout the book in various ways. Also, the novel’s many representations create a specific theme in the novel, which is man and the natural world. Additionally, The Scarlet Letter uses romanticism as a way of describing sin. Romanticism is a literary movement of the late 1700’s which poets created an effect of individualism, an emotional ecstasy
novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Scarlet Letter.” In The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne uses a lot of symbolism to make points about the world. Color and Light Images in The Scarlet Letter, an article written by Hyatt Howe Waggoner, shows that red is the most allusive symbolic color, sunlight means truth, goodness and revelation, whereas false light means evil, but what the article does not describe is the importance of the sunlight in Hester’s hair. Out of all the color symbolism red is the most
the Forest Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) is set in 17th century puritan Boston. Puritans are very strict when concerning religious matters and try to live a life absent of sin. They believe that anyone who stray from the normal puritan way, like not going church, of life is or in the process of becoming a minion of the devil. Throughout the novel the author perceives the forest as the home of sin and where witches and Native Americans meet with the black man. Hawthorne’s narrator