... and Puritan punishment in society. The forest represents a refuge away from Puritan cruelty and judgment as it was away from the town. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale go to the forest to talk without fear of being overheard by one of their peers. The forest is a logical place to meet because it was ... – with the bliss of these two spirits!...Had the forest still kept its gloom, it would have been bright in Hester's eyes, and bright in Arthur Dimmesdale's!" (Hawthorne). The use of the word wild creates an unruly, crazy, or uncontrollable image of the forest in the eye of Puritan s...

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