The Scarlet Letter

What is the overall description of forest?

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The forest is describes as a wilderness, untamed and gloomy..... shadowy.

She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate.

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The Scarlet Letter