Nathaniel Hawthorne once said, "Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not" (Hawthorne) In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses an assortment of emotions to express the importance of his main characters, he contributes with forcefulness as well as indigenous but also with optimism in a couple of his characters. The author uses nature in order to reflect changes and behaviors in the characters throughout the novel. Hawthorn has repulsive characters in his story, like Roger Chillingworth who carries with him the evil of the locality. He also creates more winsome characters, like Hester, even considering her scarlet letter. Also he creates characters like Pearl
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The bad, which was Chillingworth in the story was represented with the black flower, and the good, which is Hester and Pearl is portrayed with the wild rose bush. The author described the “... ugly edifice… in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of a civilized society, a prison,” (Hawthorne 35) to convey the characteristics of bad. Black in the context directly relates to the devil's name, because in the Bible black is the darkest color and with sin comes darkness. The term prison is used, people never go to prison for doing good deeds, so therefore the author mentions it to help explain the flowers purpose and symbolic meaning. Along with the black flower there is a rose bush that has some symbolic meaning. The wild rose bush, in contrast to the black flower, expresses the good and also is to express the only beauty in the community. There are two sides “but, on one side… was a wild rose bush… with its delicate gems [offering] their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner…” (Hawthorne 35) this one was created to be the good and beauty in the community. The rose bush is withholds hue or the bush reflects light in a way that God does. Therefore, the rosebush symbolizes good or aesthetic. Nathaniel Hawthorne perfectly describes the black flower and the rose bush to create the bad and good in nature to also create the comparison in the
The bad, which was Chillingworth in the story was represented with the black flower, and the good, which is Hester and Pearl is portrayed with the wild rose bush. The author described the “... ugly edifice… in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of a civilized society, a prison,” (Hawthorne 35) to convey the characteristics of bad. Black in the context directly relates to the devil's name, because in the Bible black is the darkest color and with sin comes darkness. The term prison is used, people never go to prison for doing good deeds, so therefore the author mentions it to help explain the flowers purpose and symbolic meaning. Along with the black flower there is a rose bush that has some symbolic meaning. The wild rose bush, in contrast to the black flower, expresses the good and also is to express the only beauty in the community. There are two sides “but, on one side… was a wild rose bush… with its delicate gems [offering] their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner…” (Hawthorne 35) this one was created to be the good and beauty in the community. The rose bush is withholds hue or the bush reflects light in a way that God does. Therefore, the rosebush symbolizes good or aesthetic. Nathaniel Hawthorne perfectly describes the black flower and the rose bush to create the bad and good in nature to also create the comparison in the