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This is the first 1,000 characters of 842 words (3.37 pages) in the essay titled The Scarlet Letter Pearl In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the characters suffer from the tolls of sin, but none as horribly as Hester s daughter Pearl. She alone suffers from sin that is not her own, but rather that of her mother. From the day she is conceived, Pearl is portrayed as an offspring of evil. She is brought introduced to the pitiless domain of the Puritan religion from inside a jail, a place where no light can touch the depths of her mother s sin. The austere Puritan ways punish Hester through banishment from the community and the church, simultaneously punishing Pearl in the process. This isolation leads to an unspoken detachment and hatred between her and the other Puritan children. Thus we see how Pearl is conceived through sin, and how she suffers when her mother and the community situate this deed upon her like the scarlet letter on her mother s bosom. Pearl is thought of being an evil child with demon like qualities, yet she is spirited and very loving towards her mother.Hester Prynn constantly questions Pearl s existence and purpose asking God, what is this being which I have brought into the world, evil? or inquiring to Pearl, Child, what art thou? Hester sees Pearl as a reminder of her sin, especially since as an infant Pearl is acutely aware of the scarlet letter A on her mother’s chest. When still in her crib, Pearl reached up and grasped the letter, causing Hester Prynne [to] clutch the fatal token so infinite was the torture inflicted by the i... |
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Keywords: scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne, pitiless, original sin, austere, puritan religion, reminder, torture, hester prynne, evil child, innocent child, baby hand, banishment, bosom, detachment, horribly, unspoken, tolls