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Use Of Dark And Light Imagery In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

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Hawthorne uses the dark and light imagery in order to describe sentiments and feelings. Imagery helps the writer to describe, point out a special idea that he wants the reader to get. The color black, and the darker as well, help him to describe a treasure, a secret, a letter, or a trouble of soul. Everything helps him to show the character pain. Mr.Dimmesdale has, throughout the book, bad feelings. He feels guilty, and the secret that he is hiding for so many times eats him away. He will finally die because of these dark feelings inside of him and his heart. Around the end, the guilt takes him over; that even outside seems dark and black (for example, dark weeds, or black weather). The “dark question” is show as the question that he keeps
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