Scarlet Letter

Often in literature, themes are often influenced and developed through literary techniques. There is no exception for The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The main theme of this novel is suffering, punishment, and redemption. Many characters such as: Hester, Dimmesdale and Pearl go through these stages somewhere in the novel. The three literary techniques that show how this theme is influenced and developed are symbols, setting, and structure. Some of these symbols are the …

…achieved and the marketplace is where suffering and punishment are endued. The scaffold is an example of structure that helps the theme. Suffering and punishment are endowed in the beginning of the book when the scaffold is seen and redemption takes place in the end with Dimmesdale finally makes his confession to the public and dies on it. All the characters, Hester, Dimmesdale and Pearl endure this theme one way or another throughout the novel.