Chapter 1, 'The Prison-Door'
The wild rose-bush offering its fragrance to the condemned — the narrator plucks one as a 'moral blossom' for the tale.
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From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The wild forest and the rose-bush by the prison door symbolize a moral nature opposed to Puritan severity.
Chapter 16, 'A Forest Walk'
Sunshine fleeing from Hester; the forest as 'the moral wilderness.'
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