Free Essay on Nathaniel Hawthornes Scarlet Letter - The Character of Pearl :: Scarlet Letter essays

The theatrical role of garner in The Scarlet Letter   One of the most heterogeneous and elaborate characters in The Scarlet Letter is os, the daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. drop cloth, throughout the story, develops into a dynamic individual, as well as an extremely important symbol. free fall is shunned because of her mothers wrong. Pearl is a living representation of the scarlet letter - playing as a constant reminder of Hesters sin.   Hawthorne uses vivid descriptions to characterize Pearl. She is rootage described as the infant ...whose innocent life had sprung, by the unknown decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank voluptuousness of a guilty passion. (81). From the beginning of her life she is viewed as the product of a sin, as a punishment. Physically, Pearl has a beauty that became every solar day more brilliant, and the intelligence that threw its quivering sunshine over the tiny features of this child. (81-82 ). Pearl is ravishing, with beauty that shone with deep and vivid tints a bright complexion, eyes possessing garishness both of depth and glow, and hair already of a deep, glossy brown, and which, in after years, would be nearly akin to black. Combining with her extreme beauty, be the lavish dresses that she wears. The exquisite dresses and her beauty cause her to be viewed as hitherto stranger from the other typical Puritan children, whom are dressed in traditional clothing. As a result, she is accepted by temperament and animals, and ostracized by the other Puritan children. Pearl was a born outcast of the childish world... the whole peculiarity, in short, of her position in respect to other children. (86). Pearl was not accepted by the children her unavoidable seclusion was due to the sin of her mother. On the rare occasion that the children would show interest in Pearl she would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to cast off at them... (87) &nbs p As a result of Pearls seclusion from society nature sympathizes with Pearl, which can be seen with the role of the sunshine in the forest. The light lingered about(predicate) the lonely child, as if glad of such a playmate, (168). The sunshine is agreeable for Pearl, accepting her as an equal. Hawthorne describes another sign of acceptance as the massive black forest...became the playmate of the lonely infant. (187).