Sin, Guilt, and Pride Nathaniel Hawthorne presents an amazing work through The Scarlet Letter in which the topics as loneliness, the feeling of blame, revenge, and temptation are part of the Puritan society, but those are not just topics present there, those are themes existing in every time period. The Puritan society has strong religious beliefs; they are very strict and sins are strictly punished especially if they are committed by women. In this period men made all important decisions and they
protection against snakes, wolves, insects, mice and moles (Zabozlaeva 1996: 45). Red as a symbol of shame and disgrace In Puritan New England of the 17th-18th centuries, a woman convicted of an illicit relationship had to wear clothes with the red letter "A" on it, which stands for adultery. And in areas where there are pubs, there is still a custom to hang red lanterns, which is a hint of intimacy and prostitution; that is why such places are in red light districts. The symbolism of the red color