Scarlet Letter Overview

       In reading the Scarlet Letter, for the most part, i enjoyed how Hawthorne used nature to describe things in a way that, it would seem useless to try otherwise. This kind of discription allowed me to visualize the image Hawthorne was painting, more clearly and seemed to emphasize certain aspects of what he was describing. Such as the sunlight scene within the forest, where Hester removes the Scarlet Letter and is over filled with joy and life again while being doused with sunlight in such a gloomy place. Then, when the Letter returns back to Hester, for Pearl does not recognize her mother without it, reverts back to her lifeless, dreary, and miserable state she was in before taking the letter off in the first place. I also enjoyed the dramatic conflict between Hester, Chillingworth, and Dimmsdale making the story very interesting and entertaining.
        Yet, one thing i disliked about the story of Hester Prynne was the fact that everyone outcasted her at first. Treating her as if nothing more than a doll as a puppet in their society. Only to do what they allow her to do. Then, several years past of her doing charity work and Hesters' beauty failing her, the society begins to accept her, and thought of the Letter to represent Able, rather than Adultress. Meanwhile, she acts the same throught the story, showing the same strong-willed personality she had since the begining. But overal, i truely enjoyed reading as well as learning, the story of Hester Prynne and The Scarlet Letter