FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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the thick forest
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the sin
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the place of darkness
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the habitat where vampires live
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Detailed explanation-1: -The darkness of the forest itself stands for corruption and sin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hawthorne uses Goodman Brown’s journey to signify a test of his faith and the gloom of the forest as the evil from sin that begins to Page 2 2012 Schulenburg Campus Emerging Writers Contest Winner darken the path he is taking.
Detailed explanation-3: -The forest represents a natural world, governed by natural laws, as opposed to the artificial, Puritan community with its man-made laws. In this world, Hester can take off her cap, let down her hair, and discuss plans with Dimmesdale to be together away from the rigid laws of the Puritans.
Detailed explanation-4: -In An Illustrated Encyclopaedia Of Traditional Symbols, JC Cooper writes ‘Entering the Dark Forest or the Enchanted Forest is a threshold symbol: the soul entering the perils of the unknown; the realm of death; the secrets of nature, or the spiritual world which man must penetrate to find the meaning. ‘
Detailed explanation-5: -Trees and forests thus took on symbolic divine characteristics, or were seen to represent superlative forces such as courage, endurance or immortality. They were the means of communication between worlds. Some societies made them into magical totems.