... , contained dark places that the cold light of reason alone could not break through. Relating directly to allegories is Hawthorne's use of symbolism in his stories. This is very evident in The Scarlet Letter where he uses setting and characterization to create an image of the various characters who each symbolize a different human trait. The Minister's Black Veil is the first of Hawthorne's stories in which the confrontation of a central ... 's dream vision or his spectral adventure in the forest, he has received a paralyzing sense that the brotherhood and unity of man is only reachable t...

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