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| | | Hawthorne makes special note that this colony earlier set aside land for both a cemetery and a prison a sign that all societies regardless of their good intentions eventually succumb to the realities of mans nature sinfulpunishmentprison and destiny mortalcemetery In those societies in which the church and state are the same when man breaks the law he also sins From Adam and Eve on mans inability to obey the rules of the society has been his downfall The Puritan society is symbolized in the first chapter by the plot of weeds grog so profusely in front of the prison Nevertheless nature also includes things of beauty represented by the wild rosebush The rosebush is a strong image developed by Hawthorne which to the sophisticated reader may sum up the whole work First it is wild that is it is of nature God given or springing from the footsteps of the sainted Anne Hutchinson Second according to the author it is beautiful offering fragrant and fragile beauty to the prisoner in a field of unsightly vegetation Third it is a token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to the prisoner entering the structure or the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom Finally it is a predominant image throughout the romance Much the same sort of descriptive analyses that can be written about the rosebush could be ascribed to the scarlet letter itself or to little Pearl or perhaps even to the act of love that produced them both Finally the author points toward many of the images that are significant to an understanding of the novel In this instance he names the chapter The Prison Door The reader needs to pay particular attention to the significance of the prison generally and the prison door specifically The descriptive language in reference to the prison door heavily timbered with oak and studded with iron spikes and the rust on the ponderous ironwork looked more antique than anything else in the New World and again seemed never to have known a youthful era foreshadows and sets the tone for the tale that follows | |
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