Who Is The Garden Of Eden In The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel detailing the events of Hester Prynne. Hester distributes qualities among that of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden, when they ate the forbidden fruit. Hester was shunned from a Puritan town in Boston. Adultery was her cause of being shunned. The town punished her by causing her to have a red A on her breast, to show she was not faithful. She was punished, just as Adam and Eve were. Instead of going somewhere else to escape ridicule and to remove her letter, she decided to stay to in her Puritan town.She moved to the outskirts of Boston. She wanted to show that she was not afraid of becoming her own person. She was not going to let the town’s people decide her own fate. She, then, took it upon herself to create her own destiny by staying. She was not ashamed of her letter. The sin she committed was apart of her past. It was apart of her. She raised the child that was created from her sin. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester does not reveal who her lover is even though it is thought to be with Arthur Dimmesdale. She does this to …show more content…
In Chapter Sixteen, Hester and Arthur meet in a forest with a "gray expanse of cloud" (The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne.192) to show that the mood is gloomy, full of sorrow. They go down a narrow path surrounded by the forest that is shallow and dark. The darkness caused by the nature surrounding the two lovers, shows the gloominess and guilt felt between the. Ever so often, the sun shined upon them in the forest. Pearl reminds her mother the sun will not shine on those who have sinned. Nevertheless, when Hester lets her hair down with passion, the sun beams down brightly on her. The sun is the symbol of untroubled, guilt-free happiness, or perhaps the approval of God and nature. It also seems to be, at times, the light of truth and