The gloomy portrayal, reflexive of the puritan society in chapter one of the Scarlet Letter, was formed by Nathaniel Hawthorne to not only foreshadow events in the novel, but to also unveil the thematic idea of social rejection and Hawthorne's own spurn of social conformity and idealism. Through the usage of imagery, mood, tone, focality, and symbolism, the reader
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