THE SCARLET LETTER

THE PRISON DOOR

• The the iron fist represents the prison door.
• " was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.”

ROSEBUSH

• The rosebud represents hope
• “It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.” (71)

SCARLET LETTER

• The reminder app represents the scarlet letter.
• The scarlet letter is a constant reminder of Hester's sin.

SCARLE LETTER

• The scarlet letter also means"able"
• Through charity, people start to forget the original meaning of the "A"
• “Such helpfulness was found in her..that many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification."(238)

DARKNESS

• The darkness represents guilt.
• When Hester goes to the woods to see dimsdale the setting is described as:
• “chill and sombre. Overhead was a gray expanse of cloud” (271)

LIGHT

• Light represents the feeling to be guilt free and relieved
• When Hester lets her hair down the sun comes out.
• “All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine"(303)

FOREST/WILDERNESS

• It is also the place where the witches perform their "dark magic".
• The Puritans think of it as a horrible place where sinner's go to sin.
• Hell represents the forest.

FOREST/WILDERNESS

• The forest reminds me of the other side of the fence in the Hunger Games.
• Both represents freedom.
• Hester and Dimmesdale discuss running away when they are in the forest
• Katniss and Gale discuss running away when they are in the forest

THE BROOK

• The brook divides:
• The strict Puritan side
• And the lawless, free, wilderness.
• “that this brook is the boundary between two worlds” (311)
• The Berlin wall represents the brook.

HESTER PRYNNE

• An angel represents Hester
• Hester is described as beautiful compared to the other women.
• The other women were described as dull.
• “her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy"(78)

HESTER PRYNNE

• The mockingjay represents Hester as a rebel.
• Through various acts, she rebells against the Puritans.

ARTHUR DIMMESDALE

• A cross represents Dimmesdale because he is the reverend .
• The town thinks of him as a spiritual leader
• “many people said, affected them like the speech of an angel.” (98)

ARTHUR DIMMESDALE

• Pinocchio represents Dimmesdale
• "I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer!'"(99)
• Dismmesdale is a liar

ROGER CHILLINGWORTH

• Heathcliff represents Chillingworth's need for revenge.
• "...grown to exist only by this perpetual poison of the direst revenge!” ( 254)

ROGER CHILLINGWORTH

• The "Black Man" represents chillingworth.
• The Puritans say the black man was the devil.
• "Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil"(250)

PEARL

• The scarlet letter represents Pearl.
• She is the proof of the act of aduldry.
• Pearl is described as dressing like the letter.
• “, arraying her in a crimson velvet tunic... embroidered in...gold thread.”(148)

PEARL

• The treasure represents Pearl.
• Pearl was Hester's only treasure.
• "as being of great price—purchased with all she had—her mother's only treasure!”(130)