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Symbolism In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

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The Scarlet Letter Symbolism Essay In the book The Scarlet Letter there is a lot of symbolism and it is used throughout the book a lot. In the beginning of the book the first use of symbolism is when the rose id in the front of the jail cell. That was the symbol for hope and for people to know that not everything is going to stay the way it is. And that you can get through and grow through the hardest times of your life. Another form of symbolism is the names of the characters in the book. Chillingsworth represents the cold and the rough time he brings to Hester’s life. Prynne rhymes with sin and she committed a sin of adultery. Dimmsdale is a very dim and weak man in the book. He never says anything about what he did with Hester until
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