"At any rate, very few Indians were converted, adn the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand"(140)
The people at that time belived that the forest is the most evil place on earth. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester and Dimmesdale commit the adultery in a forest. They also met up in the forest and planned to go to Europe. Forest represented sin, which connected to the sin that Hester and Dimmesdale had committed.
Most of the time, people don't go into forest because they think it a sinful place. In The Scarlet Letter, it mentioned that you can find the black man in the forest.
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