Scarlet Letter Symbols
Symbols used in The Scarlet Letter Chapters 9-15 -the Scarlet Letter -the Scaffold -Pearl -the meteor Explained: -the Scarlet Letter: The scarlet letter is a symbol in the beginning of the book that stands for shame, but towards the middle of the novel its meaning shifts. ... ” (145) The Scarlet Letter originally intended to mark Hester as an adulterer it now it the later portion of the book marks her as able & a person of importance. ... Pearl is a living version of Hester’s scarlet letter. ... looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter-the letter “A”-marked out in lines of dull red light” (140) To Dimmesdale the meteor implies that he should wear the mark of shame just as Hester Prynne does.