English "Scarlet Letter" paper The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a book packed with descriptions and metaphors. Hawthorne uses many ways to convey his thoughts and feelings of the many characters in the book. He utilizes many diverse techniques to send these messages, one of which is contrasting two distinctive opposites, and relating them to the books characters. This paper focuses on two of these contrasts, and goes into an assortment of connections with …showed first 75 words of 558 total…

…showed last 75 words of 558 total…of light and dark or good and evil depending on how you look at them. They are both contrasting Hester to the townspeople in many ways, and they both give the idea that Hester is not what the townspeople make of her, she is not an adulteress who is lower than low, she was the most pure person the in the town of you looked into her soul. That is not true of most people.