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le husband, devoted doctor and industrious scientist.”

3. Symbols of the objects in the novel
In The Scarlet Letter, most of the objects that are described have many symbolic meanings. The novel is filled with light and dark symbols because they represent the most common battle of all time, good versus evil.
The opening chapter introduces several of the images and the themes within the story to follow. “The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”(Hawthorne: 45) The prison represents several different symbols. Foremost it is a symbol for the Puritanical severity of law. The description of the prison indicates that it is old, rusted, yet strong with an “iron-clamped oaken door.” This represents the rigorous enforcement of laws and the inability to break free of them. The prison also serves as the symbol of the authority of the regime, which will not tolerate deviance.
After Hester is released from prison, she finds a cottage in the woods, near the outskirts of the city. Her choice of habitation is crucial to the symbolism within the novel. The forest represents love, or the wilderness where the strict morals of the Puritan community cannot apply. Thus, when Hester makes her home on the outskirts of the city, directly on the edge of the woods, she is putting herself in a place of limbo between the moral and the immoral universes. This is important because it shows that Hester does not live under the strict Puritanical moral code, but rather tries to live in both worlds simultaneously.
In the deep, dark portions of the forest, many of the pivotal characters bring forth hidden thoughts and emotions. The forest track leads away from the settlement out into the wilderness where all sign mandates of law and religion, to a refuge where men, as well as women, can open up and be themselves. It is here that Dimmesdale openly acknowledges Hester and his undying love for her. It is also here that the two of them can openly engage in conversation without being preoccupied with the constraints that Puritan society place on them.
Red is one colour that can arouse people many associations, in the novel it is fully exaggerated. It is the colour of blood and fire, also a symbol of strength and enthusiasm. While fire is the source of light and warmth in human being’s everyday life, fire of love is the origin of the human life. The color red in the novel symbolizes the pure and passionate love between Hester and Dimmesdale, this kind of love is the basis of being a regular family and social life, is worth praising in any healthy society. However under the stern rule of puritanism, the truth is often treated as the error and the human nature is twisted. The right are cursed, the color red symbolizing fire of love and origin of life is treated as the sign of shame by the ignorant society put on the breast of Hester as punishment of her adultery, which id undoubtedly a satire.

4. The ever glowing scarlet letter “A”
Each of the four major figures is a carrier and a symbol. They form very complicated human relations in society---husband, wife, lover, and rival in love, mother, daughter, father, clergyman, puritan, doctor and patient. By means of symb