"All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold, and gleaming adown the gray trunks of the solemn trees."
"Such was the sympathy of Nature--that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth--with the bliss of these two spirits! Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world." ((Chapter 18/PAGE 177))
Again, the colours of nature show the sanctification of the seventh year as described in the previous blog, as well as the colours being a sign of society (gray) losing its hold on those it controls.
These passages show how the religion and the control it places on peoples' lives is, in itself, a very evil thing. Sudden smile of heaven, again shows God's blessing of the connection made between Arthur and Hester and the removal of the society's control by ripping off the letter from her chest. Then again, it is stated that nature is never subjugated by human law, which has been noted time and time again; yet, it says nature is never brightened or illuminated by higher truth/power. Could it be that God or a religion has been plagued by the society and Puritan lifestlye, that it can't be used as a healing device and has lost a certain aspect of divination? The only thing that can really bring out the healing power of nature is the true happiness between two souls overcoming life's challenges through suffering. "such was the sympathy of nature with the bliss of these two spirits!"
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