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Monday, October 17, 2016

Pearl in The Scarlet Letter

pearl Prynne was much(prenominal) than a normal child. In The blood- rubor Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pearl functions more as a symbolization than anything else, she symbolizes viciousness in the puritan bon ton. She is characterized as the reddish garner endowed with life (Hawthorne 102), mean that not only does she copy the embroidered scarlet earn on Hesters chest unless she also represents her m other(a)s guilt of committing adultery. In The red Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pearls embodiment of original sin enables her to transcend the confine of puritan society exposing its limitations.\nPearl signifies more than the personified version of the scarlet letter just she also characterized as a symbol of inherent liberty (Daniels), Hester dismantle descry Pearls untamable sum while she was pregnant: she could recognize her wild, desperate, defiant mood, the flightiness of her temper, and even some of the very cloud-shapes of gloominess and despondency that had brooded in her spunk (Hawthorne 91). Because Hawthorne portrays her as beauty, freedom, imagination, and all other natural qualities that puritan society tries to repress, we begin to realize that she is more than just the living and vivacious version of the scarlet letter, the scarlet letter in other form; the scarlet letter endowed with life! (Hawthorne 102), but she signifies the freedom and individualism that the Puritan society tries hard to repress.\nPearl also shares a quasi(prenominal) beauty to the scarlet letter; the beauty is emphasized when Hester insists on dressing her in red and gold. She is the representation of Gods punishment of Hester and Dimmesdales sin, she enforces her puzzles guilt and sometimes Dimmesdales also. But Hesters love for her defiant daughter emphasizes her refusal to disregard her sin thought that it was evil, even though she believes that her sin was caused by love and cult rather than evil and pleasure.\nIn the n...

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