Part one of term paper
Symbol is a person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself. "Symbolists believed that direct statements of feeling were inadequate; instead they called for new and striking symbols to evoke complexities of mood and meaning", says a 11th grade literature book. In his novel The Sca ...

Part two of term paper
... It shows growth in the characters, and the community in which they live. The letter "A" begins as a symbol of sin, an indication of her adultery against her husband, Roger Chillingworth. "This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die"(Hawthorne 43), hence from that day on Hester is isolated from rest of the Puritan community and treated as a sinner. Then after several years, the meaning of "A" change to able, for her ability to create her beautiful needlework and for her u ...