Symbolism In Scarlet Letter

In today 's world most people focus on their future and don’t let their past define them. There’s a saying that 's goes, “your past is done, so forget it; your future is yet to come, so dream it.” People learn from their past in order to learn from their mistakes. They know that they can fix them and become better people. It wasn 't always like that, in the book The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main character Hester realizes that even though she did she committed a sin in her past the Puritan community sees that sin as one of the worst sins you can commit and will never forget what she has done. In the book Hester has a child with a man who is not her husband, which is frowned upon, therefore the Puritan community does not accept Hester for who she is and does not approve of what Hester and her daughter Pearl do and don 't think she 's a fit mother. Also they think Pearl is a “devil child” because she was born out of sins. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the letter as a symbol to illustrate how although a person may change for the better deep down sins will never be forgotten.
In the beginning of the book Hester reveals what her sin is and the town does not accept her. Everyone in town talks about her and think she won’t be a …show more content…
But dost thou know, my child, what this letter means which thy mother is doomed to wear?" The fact that Pearl wants to be like her mom and Hester thinks she’s “doomed to wear” the scarlet letter suggests that Pearl wants to be just like her mom and sees her for her scarlet letter and the scarlet letter is was makes her since it 's the real her. Pearl wants to be like her Mom since she wears the letter to show her honesty, Most of the Puritans don 't approve of Hester, but Pearl does since she sees that the letter is symbolizing her honesty and that 's her way of seeing how it will never be