Symbolism in The scarlet Lette

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a tale of sin and redemption, centers around the small Puritan community of Boston during the seventeenth century. In the middle of the town market place is a " . . .weather darkened scaffold. . . " Where sinners are made to face the condemning public. The people standing on the scaffold experience strange phenomena while on the scaffold. Some become braver, some meeker. And whether the people are looking at them or not, they becomes …showed first 75 words of 751 total…

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