She holds her daughter, Pearl, in her arms as she stands on the scaffold. ... When the townspeople ask who the baby's father is, she says that Pearl will not know an earthly father, only a heavenly one. ... Hester and Pearl, who are out late because she had taken measurements for a funeral robe, climb the scaffold to join him. ... Little Pearl clasps her arms around his knees when he calls them. ... He asks Pearl for a kiss and a tear streams down her face. ...

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She clutches her three month old daughter, Pearl. ... Pearl is also upset and starts crying. ... Chapter Six: Pearl Summary Hawthorne discusses the choice of the name Pearl. ... At one point Hester asks Pearl, "Child, what art thou?" to which Pearl replies that she is Hester's little Pearl. ...

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Hester will not tell who the father of this child (Pearl) is. ... At this point, pearl was a young girl. ... Dimmesdale, feeling guilty visits Hester and Pearl. ... Hester leaves with Pearl. ... Even though Pearl is so far from reality, Pearl is what keeps Hester in touch with reality. ...

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The most significant name belongs to the character Pearl. Hawthorne shows that this name has two meanings, but only one is used to describe the importance of Pearl's existence. ... But she named the infant Pearl' as being of great price "purchased with all she had "her mother's only treasure!... Hawthorne uses Pearl's name, in this sense, to express that Hester gave all she had for her child. ... Not only do Pearl and Chillingworth have telling names, but the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale's name also serves a symbolic purpose within the book. ...

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She is willing to fight for her daughter, Pearl. ... Bellingham house, to deliver gloves, and when she is told that she has to give up her daughter, she says, "Pearl keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me, too! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter- because Pearl is her world, nothing else (100). Hester world probably kill herself if Pearl was take away. ...

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The result of this affair was the birth of a daughter named Pearl. ... While living with Dimmesdale, he discovers that Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl and seeks revenge on him by hurting him more than curing him of his illness. On the day that Arthur is planning on running away with Hester and Pearl, he instead walks up to the scaffold with Hester and Pearl to reveal his sin to his congregation. ...

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Essentially, Hester and Pearl help to bring him to peace. Before he can really enjoy this feeling, however, Pearl brings him back to reality. ... Pearl, more importantly, is finally released from her role as the reminder of her mother's affair. ... Although she would not kiss him in the forest, this kiss is Pearl's first acceptance of Dimmesdale as her father. ... Through the honesty of her father, Pearl is truly born into life. ...

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His vigil and meeting with Hester and Pearl in the wee hours of the morning on the scaffold was the turning point of my impression of him. Pearl's role in the story, I felt, was the scarlet letter come to life. ... In my opinion, the most interesting aspect of Pearl's character is her reaction to seeing her mother without her brand and cap when she meets with Mr. ... When he arrives, she sends Pearl to go play and sits down to a conversation with him. ... Pearl's obvious contempt for Dimmesdale is also shocking because in their previous meetings, she had not been so hostile. ...

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Hester's secret sin is not confessing the identity of Pearl's father. ... Her sin, which is not revealing her sexual partner, weighs heavily on her conscience and also leads to torment from other people who want to know the identity of Pearl's father. ... At one point she even considered killing Pearl and then herself to rid them of their misery. ... Even Hester does not speak with him about the situation for seven years after Pearl is born. ... When Dimmesdale finishes his Election Day sermon, he walks up onto the scaffold with Hester and Pearl and confesses everything to t...

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While he is gone she has an affair with Arthur Dimmesdale, and the price of this sin was a beautiful girl which she names Pearl. ... As pearl grows older and society sees Hester living well and caring so much for her child, they begin to interpret the letter in a different way. ... When Dimmesdale reaches the outside he climbs up the scaffold and asks Hester and Pearl to stand with him. ... From this point on Chillingwoth's main goal on life is to find the father of Hester's baby Pearl. ... Chillingworth's obsession with finding Pearl's father begins to take over his li...

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It was thought that he had "made it his principle to consist in the pursuit of revenge"(175) In the beginning of the book, when Hester and baby Pearl were in jail, Chillingworth produced a very natural medicine to cure them. ... In an attempt to make up for ruining their lives, he "Bequeathed property to Pearl" (176). ...

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When a child was born (Pearl) and no "father" came forward to claim it, Prynne was sentenced to her penalty. ... At the end of the story, Dimmesdale reveals his secret (that he was indeed the father of Pearl) and therefore Chillingworth has no target for his mania. ...

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She commits the sin of adultery with a minister, Arthur Dimmesdale and has a child, Pearl. ... Also, because he does not want to reveal his identity, he can not take care of his own daughter, Pearl. He has a special affection toward Pearl but he can not act like a father. ...

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In the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale has committed the sin of adultery with Hester Prynne. The story begins with Hester coming out of a jail and being put on the scaffold for the sin she has committed with the cursed child in hand. The town is ashamed a...

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Chillingworth as Satan in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a novel packed with religious symbolism, and Hawthorne subtly assigns the role of the devil to Roger Chillingworth. Throughout the novel, there are many references and associations that confirm the fact that Chillingworth is represe...

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For example, when Hester was being evaluated by Governor Billingham as to being fit to raise Pearl, Hester "was startled to perceive what a change had come over [Roger Chillingworth's] features, how much uglier they were, how dark his complexion seemed to have grown... and his figure more misshapen," (Hawthorne 103). ... The odd thing was that after his death, Chillingworth bequeaths his entire fortune to Pearl. ...

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This caused so much mental and physical anguish that she eventually questioned why she should live if it weren't for her Pearl. Pearl was a bundle of life sent from God to remind her of her wrong doing each and every moment and as a walking sermon to preach against sin for others. ...

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Morales 8 Alex Morales Melinda Shingler Honor English 20 October 2014 A Tremendous Sinner "Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute." ― Thornton Wilder...

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Also, Pearl reminds Hester of what she did everyday, "She looked fearfully into the child's expanding nature, ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity, that should correspond with the guiltiness to which she owed her being...

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Suffering is a major theme in The Scarlet Letter; all the characters are affected by their own agony. Nathaniel Hawthorne suggests that suffering is necessary to be remorseful. Suffering ruins Roger Chillingworth, while it aids Hester Prynne in becoming rueful. When Arthur Dimmesdale finally confes...

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"He is the complete type of man of the world, the social ideal,--courteous, quiet, well informed, imperturbably. Nevertheless, his moral nature is a poisonous and irreclaimable wilderness, in which blooms not a single flower of heavenly parentage." (J. Hawthorne) Over the course of seven years, Roge...

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"He is the complete type of man of the world, the social ideal,--courteous, quiet, well informed, imperturbably. Nevertheless, his moral nature is a poisonous and irreclaimable wilderness, in which blooms not a single flower of heavenly parentage." (J. Hawthorne) Over the course of seven years, Roge...

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