The Scarlet Letter

Symbolism

whats one quote that describes or uses the symbol " The Forest " and what is hawthorne using the symbol to signify?

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The forest represents the wild and untainted frontier that is free of Puritan hypocrisy and unnatural rules,

Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods. ch 18