The symbolism in The Scarlet Letter can be divided into two classes, man-made and natural. ... The Puritans believed the scaffold was not enough punishment, so they decided to make the sinner wear a scarlet letter. The scarlet letter would take over a person’s personality this can be seen when, “[T]he scarlet letter was represented in exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be greatly the most prominent feature of her appearance” (Page 97). The scarlet letter is the letter “A” and in this case means adulteress. ... Hawthorne uses the scarlet letter to further show the harshness and relentless affects of the sin on the mind.
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