... . That view is not very different from Nathaniel Hawthorne's view on the forest in The Scarlet Letter. The Scarlet Letter does not see the forest in such a grim light as does The Crucible, but it does see the forest as a place where you express your true self, outside the boundaries of society. The forest is the first place that Hester and Dimmesdale hold hands in public. So, the forest is seen as a place for weird happenings, but ... The Crucible sees it in a much more "evil" way then The Scarlet Letter. Truth had many meanings ... ...

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... to light, suggesting darkness as a state of hiding where the person will not accept life's experiences and holds back. Pearl's eyes are called a "small black mirror," meaning they are empty and filled with sin as they reflect Hester's sin. Hawthorne explains black weeds growing from a sinner's grave as evil coming out and dying. The Puritan's describe Satan as the Black Man in the forest. Black ... is used to symbolize the worst and most evil part of an object or person. Hawthorne employs white and light to oppose darkness as a state of self-containment. White most clearly symbolizes pu...

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... pry apart all that is sacred to Dimmesdale and destroy it, murdering him from the inside out. After a period of time, the evil within Chillingworth can be seen through his appearance as well. As Hester stares into the eyes of Chillingworth, "There came a glare of red light out of his Vevoda 2 eyes; as if the old man's soul were on fire, and kept on smouldering duskily within his breast ... to be redeemed, Hester encourages him to have hope. Renewed and full of new found confidence, Dimmesdale says, "O Hester, thou are my better angels! I seem to have flung myself- sick, sin stained, and...

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... familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time-was that SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom.?p.51 The Forest:The forest has two main symbolic functions. It is the home of the Black Man but also a place of freedom. First, the forest can symbolize darkness and evil. It is a place where witches gather, and ... souls are signed away to the devil, and Dimmesdale canyield himself with deliberate choice...to what he knew ... night in the forest where Mistress Hibbens holds her witchcraft meetings, wher...

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