They punish her further by making both Hester and Pearl social outcasts. ... Pearl is not an easy child. ... To Pearl, the scarlet letter is simply part of her mother. ... Hester and Pearl leave Boston for a period of time. After Pearl marries and settles down, Hester returns to Boston. ...
This type of language seems to stay consistent throughout the story, even when Mistress Hibbins and young Pearl are speaking. ... This aspect also foreshadows later events as Hester is the strongest link in the relationship between her, Dimmesdale, and young Pearl. ... Also, I found it ironic that "Pearl," a name often associated with elegance and purity, came from something so sinful and immoral. ... Even little Pearl represents the "connecting link between the two [Hester and Dimmesdale]." ... The reader is never certain about what actually becomes of Pearl, but we do find out that He...
The next significant character is Hester's daughter Pearl. ... Pearl is a symbol of naturalism. ... Pearl also possesses individualism. ... Once in the center of town he approaches the scaffold where Hester and Pearl stood. ... Once there he publicly confesses to being Hester's lover and Pearl's father. ...
When the people found that Hester had Pearl, her daughter, out of wedlock, Hawthorne wrote that the village "scorned them in their hearts and reviled them with their tongue" (Hawthorne 86), proving that the Puritans discriminated people who did not follow their way of life. ... During her time there, she had an affair with a Puritan minister by the name of Dimmesdale from which she bore a baby girl, Pearl. ... In chapter twelve, Pearl calls to Dimmesdale asking him to reveal his own connection to herself and Hester. Dimmesdale refused to join Pearl and Hester the following day on th...
Finally after a encounter with Hester and Pearl at the scaffold Dimmesdale decided that he would reveal himself because it was the right thing to-do instead of just letting Hester and Pearl take the suffering when he had just as big of a part in it as she did (Hawthorne 203-213). ... He stood up on it and called for Hester and Pearl, and then holding Pearls hand he confessed his sin to the public. After that he kneeled down to Pearl and asked for her to kiss him on the forehead. Pearl did and at that moment Dimmesdale fell over and died (Hawthorne 225-228). ...
Living in a Puritan community, Hester is shunned for her actions, and she was forced to be humiliated in front of the town while standing on the scaffold with her daughter, Pearl. ... Hester's sin has affected her in a positive way in the person of Pearl, the daughter of Hester, which is the symbol of her illicit love affair between Hester and Arthur. ... Pearl becomes the living manifestation of Hester's sin and her conscience (Hull). ...
Living in a Puritan community, Hester is shunned for her actions, and she was forced to be humiliated in front of the town while standing on the scaffold with her daughter, Pearl. ... Hester's sin has affected her in a positive way in the person of Pearl, the daughter of Hester, which is the symbol of her illicit love affair between Hester and Arthur. ... Pearl becomes the living manifestation of Hester's sin and her conscience (Hull). ...
In comparison to Ray rice, a football player who was well liked by many people before the incident with his wife, Hester was described as beautiful and she even felt happier and different after removing her scarlet letter at one point in the novel when she was in the forest with Dimmesdale and her daughter Pearl. ...
