... , and when she wipes Dimmesdale's kiss from her forehead. First of all, I would like to talk about the scene with Pear placing burrs on Hester's bosom. Pearl was in "one of those moods of perverse merriment", which seemed to remove any sympathy or consideration for anyone. She began to "skip irreverently from one grave to another." Hester asked her to behave more politely ... , but in reply Pearl "paused to gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock." She then began to "arrange them along ... the lines of the scarlet letter." After Dimmesdale's comment about her behavior, Pearl "threw ...

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... , and an understanding sinner. "It is our Hester "the town's own Hester "who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comforting to the afflicted!- (Hawthone159). She is the star, the light, and the hope, to countless fellow sinners. Pearl's name is obviously not a symbolic mystery. Pearl, like a pearl, is bought at a great price. "The infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by ... had, "heavy window curtains to create a noontide shadow when desirable- (Hawthorne122). Dimmesdale's misery put a dark veil over his life. Hawthorne put intricate detail into hi...

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... is still cowardly and hypocritical in his confession by using the night to conceal his identity. In this scene, Pearl and Hester join him on the scaffold, as they link hands together and watch as a meteor illuminates a letter "A" in the sky. Pearl, consistently distinguishing connections in the novel, brings attention to the "A" as a sign of their sin being broadcasted ... to the town. Simultaneously, they notice a lurking man in the distance who brings overwhelming feelings ... Hester and Pearl's fortitude and loyalty to Dimmesdale and themselves by remaining on the scaffold. Through ...

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... in this novel, such as Dimmesdale's cowardice, Chillingworth's evilness and the persecution existing for the cruel laws. However, there is a huge comparison between Pearl and that society. The natural love between Hester and Dimmesdale can not be accept among the ruthless puritan society, but the instinct about love should not be restrained. Pearl's role is to represent the nature which should not be limited by society pressure. She is ... her mother tremble"(p81). Her uncommonness makes her have nothing to fear for. In addition, these actions are regarded as Hester and Hawthorne's diss...

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... right and no longer is physically bothered. Finally, Dimmesdale shows the powerful effect of shame on one's emotion. While at the meeting at to decide whether or not Pearl should be taken away from Hester, Dimmesdale displays emotional shame. During the meeting his eyes are described at dark and trouble, expressing how guilty he is for troubling Hester with a child that he can not raise ... . Dimmesdale feels like a disgrace for his sin in God's eyes, but tries ... to form an emotional bond to Hester and Pearl. When Chillingworth moves in with Dimmesdale, he begins to ... ...

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... to answer her questions about her past. Naturally, Pearl becomes a very curious child in her secluded life from society. Pearl deems answers for her past and becomes infuriated in Hester's refusal to expose the truth. As a result of Pearl's seclusion from society, nature sympathizes with Pearl, which can be seen with the role of the sunshine in the forest. The sunshine is grateful for Pearl, accepting her as an equal. Hawthorne describes ... another sign of acceptance as the, "great black forest...became the playmate of the lonely infant," (Hawthorne, 187). While in the forest, Pearl be...

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... even though Hester at first tried to do her best at this. She quickly realised that Pearl was not going to adapt to her methods so she could not set any restrictions for her. Instead Pearl developed to be a wild child, to her mother and the rest of the Puritan community she seemed to be a little elf and they sometimes doubted that she was human ... , in this episode she shows her feelings for something with the same features as herself. Pearl is not entirely described as a wild and savage child like the community sees her as. At the end where Pearl is running about in the market place sh...

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... Hester Prynne that eats away at him daily. These supernatural events that occur clearly add romanticism to this tragedy. Hawthorne also uses mysteries to betray romanticism. Roger Chillingworth begs Hester for the identity of her partner in crime; however, she swears his secrecy. She replies, "Never! Ye cannot take it off. And would I that I might endure his agony as well ... are used to create a mysterious atmosphere through the story. Finally, intuition is also used to add romanticism to this tragic novel. Pearl, is constantly questioning the meaning of the scarlet letter "A" on her m...

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... evil or possessed or rather just as wild and free. The people of the village sometimes refer to her in comparison to the devil, for she throws rocks at their children, says crazy things and had an awful temper. The townspeople also look down upon Pearl because she is a child of sin, the product of adultery and they outcast her as much as Hester. Although many people ... that her mother so desperately seeks follows her, shining upon her. The light may be a sign from God that the child is not tarnished for her mother's sins, that she is good and pure although she may seem like a savage. P...

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... embroidered in flourishes of gold thread It was the scarlet letter endowed with life."" (Hawthorne 78) As Pearl intended, the red letter of adultery was brought to life in the bright red dress. But also, Pearl symbolized a way of punishing Hester for her adultery. The way Hester's life was ruined for so long was the final price that Hester paid for Pearl. With Pearl, Hester's life was one almost never filled with ... joy, but instead a constant nagging. Pearl would harass her mother over the "A" which she wore ... ...

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... imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner- (Hawthorne 46). As the prisoners enter the prison, it is the very last thing they see and as they exit, the very first. Another contradiction is how the society behaves as Hester is being punished. This happens throughout the book, but most effectively in the beginning. The women plead for a more harsh punishment because they think Hester deserves far ... worse than what she has been given. The women of the town also thought that Hester would try and disguise the "A" as much as possible. Contrarily, Hester creates a b...

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... guilt, and his stature in the community remains.  He remains silent of his crime, and his guilt is symbolized by the A-shaped meteor that flashes across the sky while he stands with Pearl and Hester on the scaffold. To Reverend Dimmesdale, the meteor is a symbol of his own personal sin. It is perhaps a symbol of the guilt he feels for not confessing to the crime he committed and leaving ... Hester to take all the blame. He lives with the agony of his lie, while ... Hester lives freely. The sight of it somewhat ... ...

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... shame by having them both touch the stop where the scarlet letter is simultaneously. The second scaffold scene, also the climax of the plot, occurs in chapter 12. As a result of his guilt, Dimmesdale mounts the scaffold late one night, while Chillingworth cautiously watches in the darkness nearby. Hester and Pearl, who are out late because she had taken measurements for a funeral robe, climb the scaffold to join him. While ... on the scaffold, they see a meteor in the sky that resembles a red letter "A". Then, Pearl asks him to stand on the scaffold with them at noon the next day and co...

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... Pearl. One of the most complex and elaborate characters in The Scarlet Letter is Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Pearl is involved in the complex nature of the story, as a result of her mothers adulteress ways she is shunned from society and even looked down upon by her mother. Pearl is the Human embodiment of what the Scarlet letter A stands for. Pearl plays one of the most crucial roles within the ... story, Hawthorne uses Pearl as ... an effective character in that she is a constant reminder to Hester her mother of the sin that had been committed and why s...

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... Letter is a book of much symbolism. One of the most complex and misunderstood symbols in the book is Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne. Pearl, throughout the story, develops into a dynamic symbol - one that is always changing. In the following essay, I will explore some of the symbolism which Pearl came to represent throughout the novel. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester, for her sins, received a scarlet letter, "A" which ... could not escape it. In this aspect, Pearl symbolized God's way of punishing Hester for adultery. The way Hester's life was ruined for so long was the ultimate price ...

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... if she had not married without love. She marries to Roger Prynne, who is much older than her, without courtship or affection of any kind. If she would have married for love, she would have been satisfied with her relationship and thus will not have commit adultery nor suffer "a pang, a sting, [and] an ever-recurring agony"(102) of her sin. Hawthorne ... love, Dimmesdale is pulled in to sin along with Hester. Since then, he is constantly tortured by his conscience for hiding it from the town. By committing the sin of hiding his wrongdoing from the town, Dimmesdale is an untrue man and "T...

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... , its agent: "it was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life!"" (Baym 56). When Hester commits the sin of adultery, the punishment is wearing the scarlet letter. Pearl herself is living proof of sin, which is what the letter represents. Pearl's appearance replicates that of the letters: Hester dresses her in "the richest tissues" and stitches elaborate dresses for Pearl to wear "before the public eye" (Hawthorne 92 ... ). Hester takes of the letter because it is a constant reminder of her ... ...

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... are both intertwined with the meteor for opposite reasons. Pearl sees a figure in the distance watching them. It is Chillingworth, Hester's husband, and he discovers the bond that Hester, Dimmesdale, and Pearl share by the "A" in the sky. In conclusion, the scarlet letter, the meteor, and Pearl are all a result of sin. They also have a symbolic meaning to the identities of the characters. The scarlet letter has its two meanings for Hester. The meteor comes to ... Dimmesdale as his own scarlet letter. Pearl is the result of Hester and Dimmesdale's sin. The townspeople realizes when Dimme...

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... events or objects in the story. Two examples are Pearl, as well as the Forest. Pearl symbolizes many things in The Scarlet Letter. Pearl is the living proof of the adultery between Hester and Dimmesdale making her the living scarlet letter. Pearl also symbolizes punishment for Hester. First of all the name Pearl means of great price the way Hester's life was ruined was the ultimate price that Hester paid for Pearl. With Pearl, Hester's life was ruined ... with constant nagging about odd questions about the scarlet letter. Pearl would ... ...

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... worse of Roger for asking her to marry him "when her heart knew no better."" She now knows that if she ever loved him, she was deceiving herself. These feelings brought onto her because of the conversation between her and the doctor reveals to Hester's state of mind things that she would not normally think. Hester looks for Pearl. While Hester and the doctor had 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 rock...

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... Hester's pride and with obvious intention she aggravates her mother's already unimaginable torture. Pearl wanted sin, she craved it like breath from the lungs of the drowning. Pearl played with the idealism of sin. Instances in Pearl's life and interaction with her mother can be recalled as a basis for this very conclusion. As an infant, Pearl was "unsympathetic, hardened, and stern". Hester sometimes crumbled into "passionate tears" and ... inactive compared to Pearl's playful tenderness for the like. In an instance in the forest, Hester removed both her A and the cap which constrained...

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... to help her in this a situation. We later learn in the story that he has committed adultery as well because Pearl is the daughter that came from the result of his affair with Hester. Doesn't this make him a hypocrite? Demmesdale was publicly accusing, humiliating, and torturing Hester for her sinful actions, when he had committed the same crime himself. He is just as guilty of hypocrisy ... as the townspeople are. Hester was publicly shamed and forced by the people of Boston to ... deathbed. He was the secret lover of Hester, and the father of pearl. This meant that he should have been...

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... obviously adultery and ability. The forest and the things that occur in the forest are symbols too. Pearl is also a symbol; she is a living representation of Hester's sin. When Pearl and Hester go into the forest, rays of sunshine fall on Pearl but do not fall on Hester. This symbolizes how easy it is for Pearl to find happiness. Hester, on the other hand, cannot escape the forest's darkness (gloom in ... her life) to reach sunlight (happiness). The darkness in the forest disappears when Hester and Dimmesdale meet and talk ... ...

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... upset with her mother and refuses to cross the stream to run away. This is because Pearl feel that by doing this, her mother is also throwing her own daughter away and she feels rejected. Pearl is a consequence of the passion that Hester and Dimmesdale once had. It's her way of demanding that they take responsibility for their actions. Hester and her previous husband, Chillingworth ... , no longer have the same feelings for each other. She notices changes ... in him over the past seven years. She sees that he has changed for the worse. Hawthorne writes, "He was ... ...

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... too focus on himself and his guilt that he cannot focus on Hester and Pearl. Finally, he only seeks to escape his sin and not to reveal a love for Hester. Dimmesdale is a very intricate person that he plays a dual role in this book. One is the pastor and the other is the secrete love of Hester. As a pastor, he has a really high reputation and he ... Hester. Dimmesdale's sin torment him constantly. It makes him never get a peace from his sin for seven years. However. He punishes himself, but never cares about Hester and Pearl. When he meets Pearl in the stream, he says to Hester: " that ...

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