Scarlet Letter Pearl

"But she named the infant 'Pearl,' as being of great price- purchased with all she had- her mother's only pleasure" (Hawthorne 85). Pearl being one of the main characters and symbols in Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, is one of the biggest character because of what she represents. Pearl represents many things in this novel. Although many believe that Pearl is more of just a character to be the realistic symbol of Hester's mistake, Pearl is the main idea in this story. Pearl is a character that represents the complicatedness of love, proudness and pride, and most of all adultery involving Hester and 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.

Pearl is the result of adultery. Her mother Hester is a seamstress and makes Pearl wear elaborate gowns that resemble the scarlet letter. Hawthorne said " The mother herself- as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain, that all her conceptions assumed its form - had carefully wrought out the similitude; lavishing many hours of morbid ingenuity to create and analogy between the object of her affection and the emblem of her guilt and torture. But, in truth, Pearl was the one, as well as the other; and only in consequence of that identity had Hester contrived so perfectly to represent the scarlet letter in her appearance" (Hawthorne 70). This is an important quote because it displays that Hester purposely dressed her daughter in ornate gowns that were gold and red which resembled the scarlet letter. Pearl's name is also symbolic because Pearl is precious and valuable to Hester like a pearl is. Hester literally gave up everything to have Pearl. Pearl also is symbolic to the rose bush in front of the prison, she is something beautiful/bright that came out of a dark place. Pearl came out of a dark place, but that does not determine her

One of the most obvious symbols in The Scarlet Letter would be Pearl. Pearl is practically the scarlet letter in human form; She is the physical consequence of adultery. Yet even as a reminder of Hester’s

Every pearl begins as a dangerous and harsh intrusion into life. A piece of dirt is inserted into an oyster’s environment where it doesn’t belong. The oyster can either respond by dying, or by accepting and surrounding the sand with care. With continual care, the oyster turns the small speck of dirt into a beautiful pearl. The Scarlet Letter is a story of how one woman takes a scandalous event and rather than allowing the event to define her, she, by constant kindness, turns her life and her child into something of worth. The theme I am focusing on in The Scarlet Letter is the person and the concept which embodies courage and redemption.

The scarlet letter. The townspeople and Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s ex husband, see only the scarlet letter as Hester and Pearl’s identities. In describing Pearl, Hawthorne explains, “This outward mutability indicated, and did not more than fairly express, the various properties of her inner life. Her nature appeared to possess depth, too, as well as variety; but—or else Hester’s fears deceived her—it lacked reference and adaptation to the world into which she was born.”

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.

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne focuses more on the symbolic meaning than on characterization. The Scarlet Letter revolves around the themes of sin, guilt and redemption, which are conceptualized through an adulterous life story in Massachusetts. Adultery is expressed in a means, which is not only psychologically disturbing but also reflects upon understanding of the human heart. Hester Prynne is an adulteress who is forced to wear a scarlet letter A on her gown according to Puritan practices. Arthur Dimmesdale, struggles in the background with guilt for fathering her secret child, Pearl yet the woman gets to be castigated independently. Furthermore, Dimmesdale is a cleric and Chillingworth who is Hester’s husband, from

In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Pearl's character not to be a daughter but to be a symbol that manifests Hester's guilt from her sin of adultery. When Pearl is first introduced, she is only a few months old, but already, she seems to have an understanding of her mother’s sin. As Hester holds Pearl to her chest, where the letter is, Pearl winks at the sun as if letting it know that she understands that her God-given duty is to never let her mother forget her sin. It is almost like she is saying ‘do not worry I’ll take care of it’. After all, the most obvious symbol of Hester’s sin, is the offspring it created.

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne composes Pearl as a powerful character even though she is not the main one. Her actions not only represent what she is as a person, but what other characters are and what their actions are. Hawthorne makes Pearl the character that helps readers understand what the other characters are. She fits perfectly into every scene she is mentioned in because of the way her identity and personality is. Pearl grows throughout the book, which in the end, help the readers better understand what the significance of The Scarlet Letter is.

Pearl was punished because of her mother and father's mistakes. She didn’t feel like she belonged with the other children. This caused her to act unruly to get attention. Societies rules for Pearls parents decisions caused her to not get along with the other children.

In a surface examination of the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is quickly evident that no good things come from the wilderness. Therein, the wilderness is often associated with the savages and the devil. In his work The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne finds herself exiled by society for having an adulterous affair with the town reverend which brought forth the child known as Pearl. Pearl is quickly established as the child of the wilderness: wild, capricious, and thought by the town to be a demon-child. She represents several entities in the novel just by her being, but when her morality is delved into, much more of the nature of the story can be revealed. Pearl’s role is often overlooked as a formative force in the novel. Some scholars have gone as far as to denounce her as unnecessary to the story’s makeup. Upon close examination, it can be determined that Pearl is indeed a necessary element. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Pearl presents themes of morality, both personal and cultural, as well as the divide between society and nature, through her interactions with Hester, Reverend Dimmesdale, and the scarlet letter itself.

“The Pearl”’s characters have their own quirky traits that define who they are. For example, Apolonia is identified by her jiggly belly, and Juan Tomas is identified by his close relationship with Kino. The pearl buyer is known as a stout man who will play with your emotions to make money. The doctor is a very fat and selfish