Overlooked in many books, nature plays a huge part in the novel The Scarlet Letter. It plays its own character that seems to show emotions as well as its own likes and dislikes. It is where Hester and Dimmesdale first committed their sin and it also seems to be the first place where they are most forgiven from it. Metaphors were also created with the use of nature to keep things more connected throughout the …showed first 75 words of 782 total…

…showed last 75 words of 782 total…the novel. Another use of the natural world was in a description of the things Pearl played with. "The pine trees, aged, black and solemn, and flinging groans and other melancholy utterances on the breeze needed little transformation to figure as Puritan elders; the ugliest weeds of the garden were their children, whom Pearl smote down and uprooted, most unmercifully." The environment was used to show both the good and the bad in the novel.