Imagine the scene of a violent storm at sea. Your boat rocks and turns and almost capsizes with the impact of each wave. It seems like it will never be over until you wake up the next morning and the sea is calm again, and to someone who has experienced such a terrible thing, perhaps they will tell you that it is the most beautiful thing he has ever experienced. seen. This could easily be compared to the imagery of the rose in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. The rose displays beauty and deep symbolism in the way it parallels the image of the prison in a contrasting and picturesque mansion, and in the way it relates to the pearl and its development. At the beginning of the story, we are presented with the contrasting image of the rose. in front of the prison. But on one side of the gate, and rooted almost to the threshold, was a wild rosebush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate precious stones, which were imagined to offer their scents and scents. fragile beauty to the prisoner on his entry, and to the condemned criminal on his exit to his doom, as a sign that the deep heart of nature could pity and be kind to him (Hawthorne 43). The dilapidated prison, in front of which the rose rests, is in ruins and serves as a foil to the rose. It highlights the beauty and symbolism of the rose. The rose is a symbol of passion. Its red color is representative of the blood shed in difficult times, and its thorns represent the pain we sometimes have to endure, but from most passionate experiences comes beauty. As mentioned above, the rose offers its fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner when he enters the prison. It is a metaphor for the loss of freedom and purity. The rose reminds you of the beauty of free going...... middle of paper ...... political elements of the plot of Hawthorne's novel. He added a closer look at some of their characters and their portrayal of traits of human nature. Hawthorne's inclusion of this element in his novel was well thought out and executed, which can be said for the novel as a whole. This novel seems to lack little, other than the fact that Hawthorne leaves a gap in the novel regarding Chillingsworth. The reader wonders what happened to Chillingworth given that he just “disappeared”. Whether intentional or not, the reader feels like something is missing. Aside from this one flaw, Scarlet Letter was a well-written novel and an American classic that will stand the test of time. Work cited Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The scarlet letter. 1850. Reprint. New York: Bantam Dell, 2003.Print.