The first example of nature imagery in the Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a description of the plants growing outside of the jail. This description is of "unsightly vegetation" which is a symbol for the problematic Puritan society and of a "wild rose-bush" which is symbolic for Hester (45).
The "unsightly vegetation" represents the Puritan society and its tribulations. The vegetation is described as having "something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison" (45). The Puritans, in their attempt to establish a model ‘city on a hill', have found the New World as a "congenial" or friendly place to establish a society. But one of the first buildings they built, "the black flower" was a prison, which shows they have low expectations and they anticipate sinning (45). The vegetation is also representative of the Puritan society because like how the vegetation is damaging to the rose bush, the town is detrimental to Hester.......

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Title: Imagers- Scarlet Letter
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1. Imagers- Scarlet Letter
   

   Imagers- Scarlet Letter. The first example of nature imagery in the Scarlet
   Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a description of the ... ...