What are the three meanings of A in the Scarlet Letter?
The scarlet letter Often throughout The Scarlet Letter there are symbolic references made. The story deals with a puritan woman who commits adultery and raises an illegitimate child named Pearl. The author, Nathanial Hawthorne uses Natural images to symbolize different points. Symbols can be anything that has an important meaning like shapes, color and even people. In literature symbols usually don’t have an instantly recognizable meaning, but in The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne describes three symbols which are very important which are the rose-bush, the scarlet letter and Pearl. The rose-bush is an important symbol because it represents something beautiful and at the same time dreadful just like in Hester society. In chapter one, Hawthorne describes is at “…on one side of the portal and routed almost at the threshold was a wild rose-bush, covered in this month of June” The rose-bush symbolizes the ability of nature to tolerate and outlast mans activity. This quote s . . . Pearl not only
