Pearl's Behavior In Scarlet Letter

Due to the fact that they lived in a Puritan era, Hester was publicly shamed for her crime which was adultery. Dimmesdale

Pearl acts as a physical embodiment of the scarlet letter as she serves as a reminder to Hester regarding the shamefulness of her sin. Pearl also is clothed similar to it and follows her mother everywhere similar to the letter. The letter was put on Hester from the strict rules of Puritan society. Despite Pearl being made from sin rather than given to Hester by Puritan society, she still shares a similarity as she protects Hester from actions viewed as sinful by Puritan society. After Hester and Pearl’s visit to the Governor’s mansion Mistress Hibbins suggests that Hester go to the woods and take part in witchcraft.

“Imagination is the key ingredient to overcoming fear and doubt.” Throughout “The Scarlet Letter”, Nathaniel Hawthorne tends to emphasize the intensity of Pearl’s imagination by describing the way Pearl saw the world around her and by talking about the way the people who noticed her vivid imagination, referred to her as a “witch-child”. In “The Scarlet Letter”, Pearl grows up secluded from the rest of the children in the New World. She learns to entertain herself and keep herself company by using her imagination. This is one big example of Pearl overcoming the hardships that she grew up with. As the book progresses, and as Pearl gets older, we see her overcome more hardships she is challenged with to create a strong, independent young girl. The poem provided written by Emily Dickinson comes to show how overcoming Pearl’s hardships led her to blossom from a strong, independent young girl, into an even stronger, successful woman.

Within Chapter Seven, Hester makes a poor choice in sending Pearl to the Governor's hall dressed in a red and gold dress. This only defies the Governor and proves why they should be outcasts. Through Pearl’s clothing, Hester may be trying to say that Pearl is her daughter and no matter what he does she will always be a child of sin. It may also symbolize her bold personality never dying. In the end of this Chapter, Hester is aware of the image she is creating for Pearl but, is unsure if that is the life she wants for her daughter as pondered, “feel as if it could not be the image of her own child.”(p.97)

Pearl is the daughter of Hester Pryne and Dimmesdale. She was created out of sin because her parents whom committed adultery. Pearl is an outcast almost her whole life in the Puritan Community. She is

““There was witchcraft in little Pearl’s eyes, and her face, as she glanced upward at the minister, wore that naughty smile which made its expression frequently so elvish.” (Hawthorne 145) This, is a misleading description that Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts of Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne, in his classic novel The Scarlet Letter. Pearl is the living product of sin for her mother. Born out of wedlock, Pearl is a unique child that tends to be very moody and unpredictable. However, Pearl, at such a young age, demonstrates outstanding knowledge and exhibits curiosity to her mother’s scarlet letter, and the hypocrisy of Puritan society. Although Pearl portrays devilish characteristics and performs mischievous behaviour, she

The books goes on as her child grows up and Hester and many other characters learn to cope with her crime. Her daughter Pearl is one of the few who supports her mother, though she does not understand. Through her clothes, speech, behavior, her intelligence, and her innocence Nathaniel Hawthorne shows that Pearl is more of a symbol than an actual character. Pearl’s clothing is just

In the Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, he introduces Pearl as a symbol of adultery committed by Hester and Dimmesdale. Not knowing who her father is, she has been raised solely by Hester throughout the course of this novel. Due to this, Pearl proves to be stubborn or inflexible when it comes to her family and would like to keep Hester’s motherly love to herself, rather than accepting Dimmesdale as her father. Unable to accept change in her family, she refuses to cross the brook and let go of the past for a new future. “Children will not abide any, the slightest, change in the accustomed aspect of things that we daily before their eyes” (165).

Pearl: The Elf-child Generally, the more characters a book has, the more challenging it is for a writer to create a well-organized interaction between book’s characters. For this reason, the author thinks twice before adding a new personality into the story. Thus, for a character to become a part of the book, his or her existence has to be justified.

Pearl constantly forces her mother, Hester, to face the shame of wearing her scarlet letter, a symbol for her sin. Meanwhile, she hounds Reverend Dimmesdale to face his fear of public realization of his sin straight through the doors of death. Although Hawthorne portrays Pearl as a messenger of pragmatism, her success is most often dependant on the characters’ own fears. While other characters try to conform with society, as expected in Puritan America, they are limited by their own fears rather than society’s rules and expectations for

People serve as pleasing tokens, undesired reminders, or even both throughout the course of time. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter Pearl, being the result of Hester’s crime of adultery, is illustrated as more than just a child originating from a night of sin. Pearl’s existence serves a dual purpose, most significantly in her mother’s life; one being a burdensome reminder and the other a guiding savior. Pearl embodies Hester’s sin while at the same time she repels the evil that lurks within society.

The Scarlet Letter, a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, deals with adultery, sin, and morals. The main character, Hester Primm, commits adultery with Reverend Dimmsdale. A child is born from this sin. Hester is left to raise her child on her own due to Dimmsdales pride and ego. Hester's daughter, Pearl, is a symbol for everything under the sun.

“Child, what art thou?” (146). So speaks Hester, the main character of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, to her daughter Pearl, one of the most complex characters of the novel. Pearl is difficult to understand because Hawthorne creates a black and white world where only Puritan truth exists.

Pearl is literally a live representation of the scarlet letter and is a constant reminder to Hester, Pearl’s mother, of her sin. In the story, Hawthorne helps to describe Pearl through powerful characterizations. He first describes Pearl as the infant, "...whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion"

In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne characterizes Pearl with contrasting personalities and roles she plays in Hester’s life. Pearl’s conflicting personality components, innocence and defiance, both derive from her isolation from society, which transpired because of her mother’s sin. Pearl represents the conflict between everything good and dark, which reflects in the role she plays in Hester’s life, as the physical embodiment of the A. While Pearl serves as a savior to Hester, representing possible redemption, she is also Hester’s tormentor, a constant reminder of her sin, and the consequences of disobeying her Puritan nature and religion. Hawthorne’s intent is established in the novel through Pearl’s attachment to the A, the mirror