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“Pearl: The Scarlet Letter Endowed With Life”
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The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, includes a variety of symbolism, which plays a significant role in the book. The most significant symbol in The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne’s daughter, Pearl, whom Hester bore as a result of her sin of adultery. Hester “named the infant “Pe ....
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....hen Hester walks to the scaffold, ready to pay for her crime, she realizes that the infant symbolizes her sin of adultery. She opposes the temptation to use the child to cover up the scarlet letter; “wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another.”(Pg. 95) As the day progresses, the infant is “writhed in convulsions of pain, and was a forcible type in its little frame.”(Pg.111) In this, Pearl represents the agony and torture that Hester experiences during the.... |
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