In addition, the placement of these symbols represents the author's idea of how this mark on the symbol alters the meaning. ... Erich Fromm, author of "The Nature of Symbolic Language", and Thomas Foster, author of "How to Read Literature Like a Professor", agree that emotional feelings related to symbols are "rooted in the experience of every human being" (Fromm 123). ... If the steps and concept of symbolism are then applied to the Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, we would find a multitude of example of symbols in the characters' ...

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