The Freedom of the Forest in The Scarlet Letter

Everyone needs the opportunity to express their true feelings. Otherwise the mood will gradually become unstable. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "red letter", life is focused on a strict Puritan society, public public expression is not allowed, so its role is to replace their personal distress and desire We must seek out means. Fortunately, Hawthorne provided such a shelter in the form of a mysterious forest. Because the freedom of love, freedom of expression, freedom of sympathy, and freedom can be made to ourselves, the forest is a shelter.

William Shakespeare said once, "Move around the world with a single move." In Nataniel Hawthorne's "red letter", the forest is a place of social freedom, but the town is a trial and fake. to place. The scaffolding may prove to be totally in contrast to the forest, but the town provides a more direct contrast with the forest; the truth is welcomed in the natural forest, unnatural I will be punished in the town. This view in the whole novel is clear. Because different secret themes destroy their guardians, of course more tolerant than men, and the hypocrisy of the Puritan society clearly proves this.

As you can see, there is a symbolic fountain in the red letters. Forest is one of the most symbolic ones in the entire story. It is one thing that brings happiness, sorrow, freedom, and evil to your life, but the most important thing is that the forest brings you the truth. When you enter the forest, it no longer exists. This shows that in all the examples given, truth will appear in the forest anyway. Maybe this is why these characters go there because it is the only place where the truth exists.

"This road was trapped by the mystery of the virgin forest" (179). This sentence shows only one of the many characters symbolized by the forest in the "red letters" written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. As seen in the epic story "Wizard of Oz", the forest represents a place of evil and joy, but "red", the forest symbolizes more. Each character takes out various aspects of the forest, but the forest brings various aspects to each character. For some people, the forest may be a place of latent thought and cheating, but to others it is a place of happiness and freedom.