i need as much detail you can give me on these symbols in the book scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. if you have any website references besides cliffs notes and spark notes i would greatly appreciate it!!!
hey...i'm trying to figure out the same thing....weird.
I for irritable Good thing we're not traveling around together. We'd get in a heap of trouble, lol
The letter A on Hester's chest AND the letter A traced in the sky the night the governor died. The A on Hester's chest was, of course, a sybol of Adultry. But in the end, Hester chooses to wear it after she doesn't need to anymore, and most people take that to mean that the meaning of the symbol has changed, it became more something she overcame, it comes to stand for able. The letter A traced in the sky when the governor dies has two different meanings, the general public took it to mean that the governor was now in heaven as an angel, but Dimmesdale saw it as a symbol of his own adultry. The scaffold, as you said, which I think is a symbol of judgement and sin. Pearl is also a symbol - she is a literal symbol of the love affair, but also a symbol of innocence. For websites, just google scarlet letter - thats what I did and found lots of good information.
