Nathaniel Hawthorn was a man of imaginative sense with moral experiences. He is one of the earliest writers of America who contributes on American literature from his real experience of American Puritan society, culture, and their geographical existence. He made a real effort to understand the history of New England and attempts to show culture, society norms and nature of his country in writing. The natural landscape gives real pleasure to a romantic and nature loving reader. Landscape is very important and can focus the suspense of the story symbolically. It also can focus on the emotional crisis and mental support to the characters of the text and also the readers. My paper describes the natural landscape in details and shows how Hawthorn used it in The Scarlet Letter. It also shows landscapes’ influence on its inhabitants. The focus of my essay will be on the nature, and emotions and feelings directed toward it by dwellers, and how the real natural world can be protector or savior to them. To me, reading Hawthorn means reading and knowing the real American nature and its influence on people. In his The Scarlet Letter we find a collection of sketches dealing with English scenery, life and manners. He was able to show Salem Customs house, seventeenth-century Boston, wooden prison, rosebush, forest, stream, and other natural and geographical existences of New England his to readers. I have found the real American pictures in The Scarlet Letter which make me feel that I am in America while reading the text. I think other foreign readers, like me, will get the same feelings. So to say, my paper will help understand Landscape, Nature, American culture, their influence and, as a result understand Hawthorne.
Keywords: Culture, Landscape, Nature, forest walk.
