What Is Nature's Role In The Scarlet Letter

In the novel The Scarlet Letter, nature plays a significant role in the story and creates many supernatural like instances through nature. Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, gives nature a supernatural role, and it helps move the story along and also helps the reader better understand using the imagery of nature. He uses the forest, the sun, the darkness, a rosebush, and a river bed to create imagery in nature, which makes the book have more supernatural effects in it. He also gives nature a role in the story and it helps distinguish things that have been done by people and what people will do in the future. Nature’s role in the story is very significant and without nature's role, the story would not have the same flow or same effect on the reader that the story has with nature being in it and with it having supernatural effects.

It plays a huge role in the story because it represents sin. It represents how people hide the sins that they have committed throughout their lives. An example of how the darkness is portrayed is when Hester and Pearl walk around at night and see Dimmesdale up on the scaffold, which is where people who have commited sins must stand so the rest of the community can see them and recognize them for committing their sin. Dimmesdale was seen confessing his sins, due to the fact that no one was outside because everyone in the community was already asleep. Another example of nature playing a role of darkness is when Hester and Pearl are in the forest and wherever Hester walks the sun goes away and darkness is filled in her area. The darkness covers Hester because she is regarded as a sinner. Due to the fact that she commited the sin of adultery, she is forced to wear a scarlet letter so the community is aware of her sin. The element of darkness is used widely throughout the novel, and it is used to create effect in the