Forest-4

We think that the forest represents darkness.

Dictionary definition:

The forest symbolizes all of the dangers with which young people must contend if they are to become adults. It is a place of testing, a realm of death holding the secrets of nature which man must penetrate to find meaning.

In analytical psychology, the forest represents femininity in the eyes of a young man, an unexplored realm full of the unknown. It stands for the unconscious and its mysteries.

In chapter 8 when they were going to take Pearl away, they mentioned the witches going into the forest to do witchcraft.