... Dimmesdale, a Puritan minister, who will not confess his sin of adultery. The forest is a place where the both of them, Hester and Dimmesdale, may have an open, truthful conversation without the restrictions of a strict Puritan society, where their sin, mainly Hester's due to its openness in the novel, will prevent even an attempt to carry a small chat. The forest, where no one ever ventures, is seen as a ... , none the less! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a million fold the power of retribution for my sin."(109) The narrator also e...

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