The Transgressions Of A Treasure: An Analysis Of Superior Sin

Sin, a word seemingly without demand of reverence has far greater inertia for some than imaginable, and others never get wrapped in the arms of temptation, greed, lust and any number of morally wrong actions and feelings. Though a single word, sin has infinital facets. Sin can be measured on personal opinion, religious values, societal beliefs, and many other levels. Sin can be felt at unnamable frequencies personally or publicly. Literature, for the most part, is based on genuine human experience. Reality is the only legitimately decisive plane upon which an author can base a piece of writing. Hence, literature encompasses the quintessential human flaw…sin…in all of its lineaments through the use of characters, instances, and symbols. Similarly, eloquently within the folds of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pearl subtly becomes the epitome of sin and the embodiment of unrelenting evil, using her actions and impish notions as a medium.

Pearl, as a symbol in the story, was one of the inordained union of her mother Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmsdale, outside the parameter of Hester’s lacking marriage to Roger Chillingworth. Retaining the s