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Throughout the novel, The Scarlet Letter, the author, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a few key symbols to represent major themes in the book. The most obvious and well known, as it is in the title, is the scarlet letter Hester is forced to wear. ...
To begin with, the most important and influential symbol in the entire book is the infamous scarlet letter, hence the title, The Scarlet Letter. In the second chapter, Hester walks out of the prison, wearing the infamous scarlet letter ‘A’. During the first few years of Hester’s punishment, the letter was a daily reminder of shame. ... " As the story unfolds, though, this letter comes to mean other things to Hester and the people. ... " A few pages later, Hawthorne writes, "The scarlet letter had not done its office." The scarlet letter was meant as a punishment for Hester, and yet here we see that it hasn’t punished Hester. ... " Although the scarlet letter does bring shame to Hester, as Hawthorne writes, it has not performed its duty. ... If she had learned anything from the letter, she would have known better than to run away with a man who wasn’t her husband.
Approximate Word count = 937
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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