This novel continues to follow the romantic pattern within the actual text. The pacing of the novel seemed very interesting to be from the beginning, it started out slow and then sped up very quickly. Within Chapter 1: The Prison Door we are introduced to a lot of symbolism. The first being the symbol of the white rose bush. The differences in the allegories and the symbolism throughout the novel are that the allegory is concrete and only has one factor while a symbol can have many factors. One symbol for the rose could be that it is feminine. A symbol of femininity.
Another symbol that could possibly go with the rose is the thorns and how they are painful and leave a mark. Considering the symbols for the letter A one could consider the red/ scarlet color and the connections that could be made to the sin and the color. Also, the letter is very beautiful and that beauty could have meaning behind it. There could also be a connection between the flower and the A considering the flowers are located outside the prison door where Hester is being kept. However, my favorite symbol is that of hope in the flower and the sweet moral that blossoms from the rose. All of these symbols lead to different perceptions of both the A and the rose.
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