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The Symbolic Pearl
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Most novels usually have a main symbol, which teaches a character, or the reader, a very important lesson or moral. This is true in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter, where Hester Prynne’s daughter Pearl serves as the most extensive living symbol in the entire novel. Sh ....
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....er with flowers, “covering the mother’s breast with hurts for which she could find no balm in this world.” Pearl’s “inevitable tendency to hover about the enigma of the scarlet letter” is fully developed when Pearl imitates her mother by placing a seaweed letter A on her own breast.
But the most important symbol that Pearl reflects is when they are in the forest. In one of the book’s most dramatic scenes, Pearl blocks her mother’s attempt to esca.... |
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