Hawthorne uses the Rose Bush by the prison door as an image of sympathy. The rose bush shows something that is fragile and vulnerable to the human eye. Its an act of empathy as Hawthorne says “offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.”(Pg.73) Hawthorne uses nature to create images about humans or to humans, he shows that nature is benevolent to humans than humans are to humans.
There are several examples of symbolism in The Scarlet Letter, her own daughter is an example of symbolism. Pearl 's name shows the purification that Hester wants Pearl to have in her life and the lifestyle she wishes Pearl could have, but the town sees her as the devil 's child due to the fact that the child has no father and has a sinful mother and she was not just a child, she was different. Pearl 's name also symbolizes a bible quote (“Gospel of Matthew: “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly