Because Pearl was born from a man other than Hestor's husband, the townspeople call her the devil child. ... 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. ... Because her mother is not constantly watching her, Pearl grows up to be wild and independent. ...
But with what a wild look of wonder, joy, and horror!... "'Why, know you not, cried the shipmaster, that this physician here Chillingworth, he calls himself is minded to try my cabin fare with you?'... "he whom they call Roger Chillingworth! ...
"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 bosom; dancing up and down like a little elf whenever she hit the scarlet letter.""... Pearl notices that her mother is not wearing the letter on her bosom and will not obey her mother's call. ... Pearl also notices that Arthur Dimmesdale is holding his hand above his heart whenever she refuses to listen to her mother's call. ... But with what a wild look of wonder, joy, and honor!...
"(p177) Pearl's capriciousness and wild is the expression of her mother's anger about puritan society hidden in the heart. ... When Hester is about to call Pearl to join her and the minister, the child's distance from them is judged differently by the two. ...
She soon gave up because it "grieved her to have done harm- to something that was as wild as she. ... Sure enough, when she came to Hester's call, her mother says that the child has no intention or need to wear the letter and asks the child why she wears the scarlet letter. ...
The literary sensation "The Scarlet Letter" written in 1850, by Hawthorne was a descriptive novel that takes back the reader to time where Puritans governed the land and sin was not tolerated, especially the hellish sin called adultery. ... Dimmesdale, "a young clergyman, who had come from one of the great English universities, bringing all the learning of the age into our wild forest-land. ... Hester now would be able to live her life without the burden of carrying the A on her chest, and little Pearl would no longer be called a devil child. ...
Not long after this story was published, did women start rebelling against their so-called "position" in society. ... The women called her a "brazen hussy" and felt she was not taking the sentence seriously (51). ... It was "'modeled much after her own fancy, [and] seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity`" (52). ... He calls Hester up to the scaffold for her support in his revelation. ... (230) he calls. ...
Despite considering themselves followers of Jesus Christ, the group tosses to the wind his teachings and his calls for mercy. ... Similarly, Young Goodman Brown includes a quote saying "The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. ...
Symbols Wild Rose Bush: Located just outside the prison door, it is the only sign of life near the prison, and has a single red blossom on it.The rose may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow?.... * When thinking about Dimmesdale's opposite public and private reactions to her and Hester, Pearl calls Dimmesdalea strange, sad man.? ...
The Scarlet A Multiple meanings and discussion providing insight into the letter The letter "A" was to be worn as a punishment, to be worn in shame, to be worn as "adulteress." This may not have been clearly and directly stated to the reader, but throughout reading the book, you gather possible h...
Chapter One: The Prison Door Summary A large crowd of Puritans stands outside of the prison, waiting for the door to open. The prison is described as a, "wooden jail...already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy fr...
