This feeling stands as a prominent symbol in the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... Pearl symbolizes the scarlet letter on Hester's chest. ... She does this to try to hide the scarlet letter, but she notices that one shameful thing would not help to hide another. ... Pearl plays as a direct symbol of the scarlet letter, which is a way of penance. ... In times like these her Scarlet letter was not a signal for the start of mockery and ridicule. ...

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Symbolism in "The Scarlet Letter", whoa just gave one away! ... Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" contains many symbols, including the forest, Pearl, and the scarlet letter itself, which all contribute to the main theme of sin and its consequences. ... The narrator makes it clear of this saying that "God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonoured bosom." (59) This quote refers to the bosom, where Hester's scarlet letter "A" is clipped. ... In the beginning of the novel, the sca...

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