Sincerity,kind and Beauty under the oppression——the symbolism in The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world. Hawthorne uses the symbolism so skillful that it enhances the artistic effects of his work greatly. And the author uses the symbolism to describe the characteristic of the heroine; it makes the sincerity,kind and beauty that are under the oppression more moveable. This paper researches the symbolism in this novel from the following aspects: the changing symbolic meaning of the scarlet letter,the names of the major characters and many objects that are described in the novel to make the symbolism clear to the readers.