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SymbolismP9-12 I. The Prison-Door(P9) A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. 1 The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with this rule, it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house, somewhere in the vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson’s lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old church-yard of King’s Chapel. Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the new world. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era. A Critical Approach to The Scarlet Letter I Background II Prototype Analysis III Psychological Analysis IV Powerful Conflicts Of Flesh and Soul V Aesthetic Evaluation of Poetic landscape depicting VI Theme—Sin, Redemption and Tolerance VII The Employment of Symbolism VIII The artistic truths Main Characters Hester Prynne Arthur Dimmesdale Pearl Roger Chillingworth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A-- Adultery The Scarlet Letter (1850) is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered his magnum opus[1](巨著）. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tel