She enjoys frolicking in the forest, just prancing around without a care having the scattered light dance over her through the trees. ... When Chillingworth is in the dark forest he then best resembles the black man. The main location represented with darkness is the gloomy forest. ... The black man is only seen in the dark forest and this is why the sinners are sent there. ... "Dimmesdale created his own darkness with guilt" (Light vs. ...

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Pearl could always be found in the forest, "And she was gentler here [the forest] than in the grassy-margined streets of the settlement, or in her mother's cottage. ... Pearl is shown in a negative light, the town viewed her as a child of witchcraft and evil. ... Pearl's reflection is very real, and chapter sixteen smoothly continues this concept through another body of water--the brook in the forest. ... Hawthorne used the forest brook in relation to Pearl, to show that she is untamed like the forest. ... "He kept vigils, likewise, night after night. . . . sometimes, viewing his ow...

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The forest in this case represents the subconscious mind of the Puritan society because to them the forest is the place of the devil and witches. ... "It straggled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest. ... However, the forest to Hester is like a lolly-pop to small child's eyes. The rumors and accusations fly about the happenings of a group of women in the forest. ... Canst thou deem it, Hester, a consolation, that I must stand up in my pulpit, and meet so many eyes turned upward to my face, as if the light of heaven were beaming from it! ...

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The forest in this case represents the subconscious mind of the Puritan society because to them the forest is the place of the devil and witches. ... "It straggled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest. ... However, the forest to Hester is like a lolly-pop to small child's eyes. The rumors and accusations fly about the happenings of a group of women in the forest. ... Canst thou deem it, Hester, a consolation, that I must stand up in my pulpit, and meet so many eyes turned upward to my face, as if the light of heaven were beaming from it! ...

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Of course, Hester takes advantage of this situation when she meets with Dimmesdale in the forest. ... In the forest, all cares are thrown away, and Dimmesdale makes a cry for help to Hester, a sinner in the Puritan society, but a lover to Dimmesdale, that he is able to express in the forest. ... The forest also brings out the natural side of whomever is occupying it at that time. ... To Hawthorne, the forest was beautiful and natural, and a place where Pearl could be herself. ... A fox, startled from his sleep by her light footstep on the leaves, looked inquisitively at Pearl, as doubt...

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Dimmesdale just completed his conversation with Hester in the forest. ... Seeing Dimmesdale in this new light, rejuvenated and full of energy affected me. ... This passage displays this idea indirectly, for it occurs in the time and space between the forest encounter and return to civilization for Dimmesdale. While in the forest, Dimmesdale returns to his former self, full of love for Hester. He leaves the forest with this feeling on his mind, thinking he will soon escape the bonds by which he currently lives in. ...

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She is also very curious, shown by her questioning and also her creation of an "A" of seaweed in the forest. ... (Fossum 13) The forest is symbolic of nature and contains aspects of both light and dark. During their time in the forest, Hester and Pearl both have different experiences. ... She tries to turn Hester to her evil ways and meet in the forest, but Hester will not. ...

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It includes all that is pure; where light is the dominating force. Although Hibbins always invites the characters to see "The Black Man," the forest is the only place where Hester can let down her hair and display her pride. The brook within the forest symbolizes a "boundary between two worlds" (p. 191). ... The symbolism of the forest outlines Hawthorne's interest in dichotomy, the belief that everything in the world has two sides; where one is unable to exist without the presence of the other. ...

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When the light of the glimmering lantern had faded quite away, the minister discovered, by the faintness which came over him, that the last few moments had been a crisis of terrible anxiety, although his mind had made an involuntary effort to relieve itself by a kind of lurid playfulness."... Dimmesdale has made a few changes he and Hester had met in the forest where he looked the worst he has ever looked ". ... I seem to have flung myself--sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened--down upon these forest leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath be...

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Her own daughter Pearl does not acknowledge Hester when she takes the symbol off her dress as she sits and converses with Arthur Dimmesdale in the forest. ... The townspeople watched her minister to the sick and less fortunate and began to see her in a different light. ...

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Similarly, Young Goodman Brown includes a quote saying "The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. ... Either the sudden gleams of light flashing over the obscure field bedazzled Goodman Brown, or he recognized a score of the church members of Salem village famous for their especial sanctity. ...

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Dimmesdale notices a red light in the shape of an "A" and he notices Chillingworth watching them. ... Chapter XVI: A Forest Walk Hester knows about the walks Dimmesdale takes along the shore and through the woods and she wants to catch him on one of his walks to warn him of Chillingworth. ... Pearl chases the sun and dances through the forest. ...

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The last significant event in which Pearl is the embodiment of the scarlet letter is in the forest. ... "We impute it, therefore, solely to the disease in his own eye and heart that the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter "the letter A "marked out in lines of dull red light. ...

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