However, one should note that Hester need not have gone through all those punishments if she had not married without love. ... Besides bringing Dimmesdale down, Hester also brings down Pearl - causing Pearl to suffer along with her. ... In being Hester's source of happiness, Pearl has to suffer along with Hester in being the scorn of the town. Pearl cannot socialize with the children in town or with the public because they see her as the child of the devil. ... Even if Pearl has a chance to assimilate into the society of seventeenth-century Boston, Hester will not allow it because she can...

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Symbolically, on another more obvious note, Chillingworth steals one of Dimmesdale's gloves and drops it on the scaffold where sinners are shamed in front of the town. ... Third, Pearl's reaction to Chillingworth shows his true face. ...

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