Forest and Sphere Motifs to Develop Hester Prynne.

... Forest and Sphere Motifs to Develop Hester Prynne. Many novels include motifs to help bring about a point that the author wants the reader to understand. Nathaniel Hawthorne truly manipulated the use of motifs to establish the story in his 1850 novel titled The Scarlet Letter, which was written during the Romanticism time period. Hawthorne lived from 1804 to 1864 mostly in Massachusetts in which he prospered as a writer by writing such novels as Twice Told Tales and The House of Seven Gables. However, after his rebellious college life, he kept himself prisoner in his own house for twelve years in order to learn the art of writing. All this hard work led up to the development of Hawthorne's masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne faces her sin of adultery, which Arthur Dimmesdale, her lover, equally takes a part in; however, only Hester wears the scarlet

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