The Scarlet Letter Essay -- Literary Analysis, Hawthorne

The aspect of Nature in Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet garner seems to have been characterized to readers with having a mixed blessing. Rather than illustrating Nature in the natural Puritanical manner of the 1600s, that Nature is downright slimy, tying Nature to the fateful Man, Hawthorne uses a different approach. Instead, Nature is fairly two-sided in that it portrays perverting as well as somewhat therapeutic powers. The text reveals the cocksure attributes of Nature that the Puritans overlook or fear. Conversely, the text shows that aspects of Nature that help mankind also harm him. The ternaryity of Nature mirrors the complex inner feelings and dual nature of the novels characters. Nature represents the paradoxical juxtaposition of some(prenominal) comfortably and evil in man, by demonstrate both good and evil attributes in itself. Ultimately, Nature reveals mans inherent inability to be pure.By presenting a number of aspects of Nature that are beneficial to man, t he text manages to brush aside the one-sided Puritanical view of Nature as an outright evil influence. Nature provides both Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale with some feelings of renewal and relief by better-looking each a sense of freedom from the oppression of society. For example, Hester, by sustentation in a lonesome cottage, by the sea shore, (166) a nursing home representative of Nature, is able to invoke such thoughts dared to enter no other dwelling in newly England (166). Her isolation from society amidst the liberating influence of Nature, releases her from the restrictions that turn back what is acceptable to believe, allowing her mind to roam as freely as the vehement Indian in his woods(203). Her estranged point of view, her fate and fortunes, in addition to her homely cottage by the se... ...he way her mother does is best. excessively in her pursuit of loyalty, she fervently desires Dimmesdale to stand with her and Hester in the sunlight, unknowingly requ esting that her beget reveal the truth about the bond between them all.Her quest for truth eventually leads her to pledge that she will grow up amid human joy and herb of grace(251), ceasing to forever do battle with the world(251), and instead be a woman in it(251). The novel culminates its message of dichotomy by showing the lawless child of nature embrace, in part, the morality of society. In found to live truth, Pearl must hold on to her wild roots, piece accepting a civilized future. She must free herself from the isolation of New England, but not give herself over to the complete lawlessness of the forest. She seems on the verge of living the message of the novel by accepting the duality of her nature.