"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Poems by Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet

What is love's importance in literature?
Love has an immense impact and importance in literature. This strong emotion defines characters relationships with family, significant others, and even God. Love in literature also helps a reader become not only closer to the characters of a novel but also more involved and interested in the plot. A reader can relate to situations of and pertaining to love because it is something that everyone knows and experiences on many different levels. Love is a strong theme in many works of literature that have been studied this year in semester one, such as, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "Sarah Pierrepont", by Jonathan Edwards, and "To My Dear and Loving Husband", by Anne Bradstreet.
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