Nature In The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the universally known story of Biblical creation, Adam and Eve are banished from the Garden of Eden after being tricked into eating fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Nature, as portrayed by the Bible, is not friendly to humans and keeps knowledge away from them. In contrast, Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays a very different image of nature in The Scarlet Letter. Instead of using the traditional view of nature as powerful and ominous, Hawthorne portrays nature as powerful, but also helpful to humans. Hawthorne’s nature does not prevent people from getting in, but instead welcomes humans and teaches them the right thing to do. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses the behavior of the brook and the sunlight to suggest that nature