... of the symbols used. For example, the scarlet letter is the mark of Hester's adultery to society, but to Hester it is a symbol of her passion and love for Dimmesdale and it reminds her of her strength. Towards the end of the story, society changes their perceptions of the scarlet letter to mean "able- rather than "adulterer-. The narrator refers to Pearl as the moral blossom of the novel. She is the one that will teach the moral lesson of the ... not expect any good to come from Hester's sin. Hawthorne makes another reference to weeds in Puritan society in chapter six, " Puritan elders ...

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... change her ways. If she did not stop the incestuous relationship, she was only making the garden of life more vile and adding more decay to what was already wrong with the morality of the royal family. The decay of the garden and plants shows up in many scenes but the metaphor is not limited strictly to the decomposition of plant matter. There are also aspects of human or animal decomposition. Whenever this metaphor is ... assuming his comments a cover-up simply because those who judge him were in fact using some form of concealing mistakes in their own lives. When Hamlet wrote a love l...

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