Department of English

Name Devluk Drashti M

Sub -American Literature

Topic Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter

Roll no 9

Year 2016 2017

The Scarlet Letter

It symbolizes the sin of adultery and Hester wears it as punishment.

Symbolizes adultery, sin, hard work, skill, charity.

Black man

Black Man is symbolised Satan.

All evil

Live in the forest.

Narrator loves to compare Chillingworth to satan .

Pearl

She represents the price of sin and the possibility of redemption.

Perl as a person but she is just as much a symbol.

Perl-as-symbol.

The forest

Outside of the town

The forest a place of passion and emotion.

Hester outcast state to a forest.

The town is ruled by law and religion.

The prison door

A place of darkness and sin jextaposed to God's grace.

Prison represents the harsh jestice of the puritan.

Prison is a place of darkness and sin.

Red mark on Dimmesdale's chest

It's the physical menifestation of the minister's guilt.

It's guilt-rush or something.

Dimmesdale's mark is with him untill he dies.

Night is used as a symbol for concealment.

Day is a symbol for exposure.

Sun is symbol of untroubled, guilt free, happiness, approval of God and nature.

Woods is seeds of the irrational, night, darkness