In the gothic novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorn carefully interlaces the theme of good and evil throughout the complex characters of Chillingworth, Hester, and Pearl. ... Pearl, from birth has a keen sense of the pain that the scarlet letter brings Hester. After Hester asks Pearl who her heavenly father is, Pearl, "whether moved by her normal freakishness, or because an evil spirit prompted her, she put up her small forefinger and touched the scarlet letter," and said, "I have no heavenly father!" ... Pearl shows no signs of emotional attachment to Hester, for this connection is ...

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"He is the complete type of man of the world, the social ideal,--courteous, quiet, well informed, imperturbably. ... I--a man of thought, the bookworm of great libraries...men call me wise...I might have foreseen all this...I might have beheld the bale-fire of that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path!" ...

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"He is the complete type of man of the world, the social ideal,--courteous, quiet, well informed, imperturbably. ... I--a man of thought, the bookworm of great libraries...men call me wise...I might have foreseen all this...I might have beheld the bale-fire of that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path!" ...

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• Grade Level: High School