The Scarlet Letter The story the Scarlet letter is all about symbolism. People and objects are symbolic of events and thoughts. Throughout the course of the book, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hester, Pearl, and Arthur Dimmesdale to signify the Puritan and romantic philosophies. The movie The Scarlet Letter, directed by Roland Joffe, is depicted suprisingly different, than Hawthorne’s 1850 novel. Take for instance, the letter “A,” surely a big part in the novel. In the novel, …showed first 75 words of 445 total…

…showed last 75 words of 445 total…has a strong connection with the Indians, they captured him. They freed him because they believed him to be a ghost. The Scarlet Letter is a dramatic literary device in which each object, character or event symbolically illustrates a moral or religious principal. All of them are ranging from Puritan to Romantic ideas. Hawthorne uses these ideas to emphasize his Romantic philosophies through Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale throughout the story. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** The Scarlet Letter