... threatening to tear his soul. The allegorical mirror that Hawthorne uses to show the deepest thoughts and ideas in each of the characters is the readers passageway into the lives of characters that are withdrawn from the society in the book. In chapter two while Hester is standing on the scaffold, she tries to hid from her grim reality by reminiscing of the better days of her youth. Hawthorne notes, ... on the image in the mirror will no longer be her own but rather the image will always resemble that of the mirror on the breastplate at the governor's mansion in chapter seven, "owing to t...

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