SCARLET LETTER SYMBOLISM

THE PRISON DOOR

• The prison door can represent a gloomy day.
• The prison door gives no signs of hope.

SCARLET LETTER

• Hester had the scarlet letter on her to make her an outcast .
• The scarlet letter was there to remind her of her sin for the rest of her life.

SCARLET LETTER

• This is a picture of Cain killing Abel (legos version)
• God gave Cain The Mark of Cain which can symbolize the scarket letter

ROSEBUSH

• The rosebush can symbolize hope and forgiveness.
• Christians look to Jesus for hope and forgiveness.
• " It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that maybe be found along the track, or releve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow

LIGHT

• Pearl is the light through Hester's sin which represents darkness

DARKNESS

• Hester's sin represents darkness

WILDERNESS

• Wilderness represents the area outside the puritan religon

FOREST

• In the forest the laws are based on unorthodox ways
• It can symbolize people eating grass

THE BROOK

• The brook represents the barrier between the puritan society and the wilderness

HESTER PRYNNE

• She gets punished and gets a punishment like Cain where she gets the letter A on her
• Cain got the mark of Cain

HESTER PRYNNE

• Hester is isolated after her punishment

ARTHUR DIMMESDALE

• Arthur went to Oxford University

ARTHUR DIMMESDALE

• Arthur was a preacher who went against what he preached
• ""I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and thy fellow-sufferer!"

ROGER CHILLINGWORTH

• Roger was mean and always wanted revenge
• "Yea, woman, thou sayest truly!" cried old Roger Chillingworth, letting the lurid fire of his heart blaze out before her eyes. "Better had he died at once! Never did mortal suffer what this man has suffered. And all, all, in the sight of his worst enemy! He has been conscious of me

ROGER CHILLINGWORTH

• This picture is an example of Roger
• Yea, indeed!—he did not err!—there was a fiend at his elbow! A mortal man, with once a human heart, has become a fiend for his especial torment!"

PEARL

• She represents the price of sin
• The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor forever do battle with the but be a woman in it"

PEARL

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