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    dimming, or lack of insight, Chillingworth means chilling or inhuman, and how Pearl is the result of an irritation that turns beautiful. But mainly in the Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses significant symbolism in the character’s names. In the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses very significant symbolism using the characters names. For example, Chillingworth. When the name is said aloud, it can be interpreted as to have no heart, be inhuman, or such as how he brings a "chill" to

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    Setting Breeds Symbolism One of the most important elements Nathaniel Hawthorne uses in The Scarlet Letter is setting. Throughout the entire book he decisively uses setting in the encounters between characters to create symbolism. Hawthorne uses allegories planted in the setting he uses which enables the reader to find deeper meaning in certain items or locations. For example, the scaffold, the puritan society, Hester's house, and the forest are all crucial in order to build the symbolic settings

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    Symbolism in “The Birth-Mark” In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “The Birth-Mark,” there are a variety of symbols representing control, the earth, man, and nature. These themes all tie together in the characters along with the bigger symbols of the story. Characters in this story are symbols with ideas of control and how they control one another. Aylmer controls Georgiana, Aminadab, and he attempts to control nature by removing his wife’s birth mark. In the story, nature controls every character

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    “Adulterer” to “Able” Symbolism in literature is used to represent an idea through the use of an object. However, in some instances, it is up to a character (or more precisely, the author) to decide what they want that object to represent. One may say that the character has the decision to choose their own fate; the character’s mindset and actions essentially determines the course of the story. The character has the ability to change something as significant as the symbolism in the story. In Nathaniel

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    commonly used and arguable most effective literary devices is symbolism. A symbol is merely a tangible object with an abstract meaning. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn is a highly symbolic novel, and its author uses each symbol to add a deeper meaning to the story. One of the most important symbols in the novel is Pearl. Hester’s young daughter represents chaos, beauty and the guilt of her mother. In any good work of fiction, symbolism should be fairly easy to spot. As Laurence Perrine explains

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book The House of Seven Gable’s symbolism is eloquently used to enhance the story being told, by giving us a deeper insight into the author’s intentions in writing the story. The book begins by describing the most obvious symbol of the house itself. The house itself takes on human like characteristics as it is being described by Hawthorne in the opening chapters. The house is described as

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    explain that there are flaws and faults that every person hides from others. In order to see it one has to look for it by first plunging themselves into their own darkness before seeing that of others. This is seen in Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which a man travels away from his wife with a mysterious companion into a dark forest for one night. The main character discovers that the whole town has gathered together; from heads from churches to people he is close to, he finds them in the

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    The Scarlet Letter is a classic American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that takes place in the seventeenth century in Boston, Massachusetts. It tells the story of Hester Prynne, who commits adultery in a Puritan town and is forced to face her punishment, the scarlet letter. It is mandatory for her to wear an embroidered letter A on her bosom at all times to publically display her wrongdoing and make her suffer for her sin. The scarlet letter that Hester Prynne wears has a deeper meaning than

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    they were extremists who had no tolerance to those who didn’t follow their beliefs. Nathaniel Hawthorne was raised in New England, a part of a country where Puritan Heritage was strong. Moreover, his ancestors were involved in the infamous Salem Witch Trials. The story “Young Goodman Brown” was written to show the guilt Hawthorne felt of having these Puritan roots. In “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne emphasizes the hypocrisy of his historical religious roots of Puritan communities with

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    As a work from the Romanticism era, it is expected that “The Minister’s Black Veil”, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, contains dark and deep symbolizations throughout the work, one of those that is the main focus of the work is the veil. Many has wrote about the meaning of the veil or what it symbolizes, but in this occasion I would also like to express a thought or two about the veil as a symbol of a bigger secret. Mr. Hooper decided one day that he had to wear a veil that covers his face until above

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