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Scartell Letter

in “The Scarlet Letter.” The hushed forest where none can be heard by the world hold all that we have in the story to make sense to us. The forest holds no religion, no law, and no harsh reality of right and wrong for the characters to be judged on. We have the omniscient powers of seeing all of the occurrences in the forest that hands us the insight that the other characters in the novel do not have. Here Dimmesdale tells Hester of his would be persecuted love, if the world were to know about it, for her. Hester in the tree's protection can do the same for Dimmesdale. It‘s here too that man and woman can hold one another’s words and actions as honesty. In the great majickal surroundings none have to worry about society and it’s strictness or hate. Freedom is held in this place, there are no sheriffs or noblemen to attack or persecute anyone, just the open air to take truth to one another’s souls. "Throw off the shackles of law and religion. What good have they done you anyway? Look at you, a young and vibrant woman, grown old before you time. And no wonder, hemmed in, as you are, on every side by prohibitions. Why, you can hardly walk without tripping over one commandment or another. Come to me, and be masterless." (p186) There are no commandments in nature only the animal like instincts and wants of the human beings flesh. The flowers and leaves will not tell, and the ground only absorbs footsteps. "What we did…" she reminds him, "had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said to each other!"(p. 186) In this scene Dimmsdale tells Hester to hush, he didn’t want anyone to hear what it was that she was saying. Then after her look he realized what God (Hawthorne) had given him to stand with Hester in. It was then that he truly felt the freedom of his surroundings. “Hawthorne brings Pearl and Dimmesdale together in a cause-effect relationship in the ...

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