... eats away at Dimmesdale's weakening and slowly killing him As the Puritans would call Dimmesdale a sinner, the Romantics level him as a human. The Scarlet Letter is wrapped in a deluge of allegorical theories and philosophies. Ranging from Puritanical to Romantic, Nathaniel Hawthorne embodies his ideas to stress his Romantic philosophies through Pearl, Hester, and Dimmesdale throughout the whole of the novel. Nathaniel Hawthorne has a sufficient reason for repeatedly making ... brings out the loneliness, the innocent recklessness, and the wild beauty within her. Reverend Dimesdale's ima...

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... its original signification," (110) and now believed it to represent the concept of "able." Many the townspeople realized what a high quality of character Hester possessed. They would call to each other, "Do you see that woman with the embroidered badge? It is our Hester- the town's Hester ." (111). The changing attitudes of the people in her society did eventually acknowledge the brave, strong woman Hester always had been. However, they never ... own pride sustains her from the opening scene until she dies, still bearing the scarlet A on her breast. Hester's own acceptance of herself an...

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• Grade Level: High School

... is a reason for Hester to live revitalizing her sprits whenever she has the urge to give up. Pearl is always drawing or crafting the letter "A- in the sand, with seaweed, flowers and brambles. "In the afternoon of a certain summer's day, after Pearl grew big enough to run about, she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild flowers, and flinging them, one by one, at her mother's ... notices that Arthur Dimmesdale is holding his hand above his heart whenever she refuses to listen to her mother's call. She then throws a tantrum when her mother can't figure out what is the matter. The...

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• Has Bibliography
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... is a reason for Hester to live revitalizing her sprits whenever she has the urge to give up. Pearl is always drawing or crafting the letter "A- in the sand, with seaweed, flowers and brambles. "In the afternoon of a certain summer's day, after Pearl grew big enough to run about, she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild flowers, and flinging them, one by one, at her mother's ... notices that Arthur Dimmesdale is holding his hand above his heart whenever she refuses to listen to her mother's call. She then throws a tantrum when her mother can't figure out what is the matter. The...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... , --purchased with all she had, --her mother's only treasure!" (page 62). Pearl is recognized in the town because of her attractive features. This being one of her abnormalities, the townspeople call her a demon child as the author describes, "Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world. An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants." Another odd thing about Pearl is her fear ... reminder of Hestor's sins. As she grows up, her interest grows as well about why her mother is a sinner. As pearl grows up, her mother is a busy woman. Hester earns mon...

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... been conversing, Pearl had been amusing herself down of the beach, making boats from birch, melting a jellyfish in the sun, etc When Pearl saw a flock of seagulls, she took her apron filled with rocks and flung the rocks at the birds. She soon gave up because it "grieved her to have done harm- to something that was as wild as she. Pearl then dresses herself as a mermaid ... is pointed out that the letter was "freshly green, instead of scarlet."" Pearl then wonders if her mother will ask her about the costume. Sure enough, when she came to Hester's call, her mother says that the child ha...

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... a wild look of wonder, joy, and horror!- (127) Chillingworth, husband of Hester Prynne had just discovered something on Dimmesdale's chest, the secret lover of Hester. What he had discovered on Dimmesdale was a sort of sign that proved that he was the one involved along with Hester's sin. " looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter, the letter A, marked out in lines of dull red light."" (143) The appearance of ... with Hester led him to have powerful dreams. Having Pearl point to the scarlet letter and then toward the heart of Dimmesdale illustrates ...

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• Grade Level: High School