Alluding light and darkness throughout the novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, gives light and dark an insidious meaning. In many important events Hawthorne writes details that seem insignificant, but are not because he creates a theme through them and makes the ideas of heaven and hell, truth and secrets,virtue and sin.
Hawthorne writes a novel regarding sinners in the hands of an angry God. Meaning that any sinner will feel the wrath of God by the fear and pain that he leaves them with. From start to finish Hawthorne writes about light and dark by writing about the sun during the day. In the novel Hawthorne writes details on how the light does not shine on Hester Prynne nor Dimmesdale. This makes the readers infer that it’s one of God’s punishments for having an affair. Because light represents virtue and with the hidden truth that …show more content…
But as for her parents being sinners the light does not and will not shine because they have not asked for forgiveness. Hester’s sign of adultery is luciferous through the night this shows how “Hester's good deeds eventually transform the meaning of the "A" in the view of the townspeople, who claim that it stands for angel or able”(Bomarito and Whitaker). Changing the meaning of the scarlet letter from a negative connotation to a positive connotation.Towards the end of the novel Hester throws her scarlet letter and the light hits her face a big reverence of how the scarlet letter is her sin, but the show of light is a small glimpse of no more punishment from God as if Hester’s charity work and other good deeds help Hester no longer carry her sin and is now forgiven. At night the letter glows because God allows it to
Hawthorne writes a novel regarding sinners in the hands of an angry God. Meaning that any sinner will feel the wrath of God by the fear and pain that he leaves them with. From start to finish Hawthorne writes about light and dark by writing about the sun during the day. In the novel Hawthorne writes details on how the light does not shine on Hester Prynne nor Dimmesdale. This makes the readers infer that it’s one of God’s punishments for having an affair. Because light represents virtue and with the hidden truth that …show more content…
But as for her parents being sinners the light does not and will not shine because they have not asked for forgiveness. Hester’s sign of adultery is luciferous through the night this shows how “Hester's good deeds eventually transform the meaning of the "A" in the view of the townspeople, who claim that it stands for angel or able”(Bomarito and Whitaker). Changing the meaning of the scarlet letter from a negative connotation to a positive connotation.Towards the end of the novel Hester throws her scarlet letter and the light hits her face a big reverence of how the scarlet letter is her sin, but the show of light is a small glimpse of no more punishment from God as if Hester’s charity work and other good deeds help Hester no longer carry her sin and is now forgiven. At night the letter glows because God allows it to