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Comparing Forest In The Scarlet Letter And Speak By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a timeless classic with many symbolic meanings. Such as the forest which symbolizes much more than one might imagine. In this mysterious dark landscape Hester and Dimmesdale met once again and this time they let their guard down profess their love to one another and committed adultery here. Nathaniel Hawthorne, created a literary masterpiece. He took a landscape and made it a place of morally astray, and a place for natural innocence. The forest in,”The Scarlet Letter” also connects to the book,”Speak“as well. By analyzing each story both have one thing in common trees are a major symbolic object. In both stories the main character let their guard down and met a stranger for Melinda’s

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