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The Scarlet Letter is a novel with much symbolism. Throughout the novel various characters represent other ideas. One of the most complex and misunderstood characters in the novel is Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne. Pearl, allround the story, formulates into a dynamic symbol – one that is always changing. Although Pearl changes, she always symbolizes evil. Pearl symbolizes evil in the story by representing God’s punishment of Hester’s sin, symbolizing the guilty conscience and the scarlet letter that controls her behavior, and defying Puritan laws by being cheerful and associating with nature. Pearl represents God’s punishment by her mocking and nagging of Hester. Throughout the novel she on occasion seemed to her mother as closely a witch baby (Matthiessen 104). She is a baffling mixture of strong emotions with a fierce temper and a capacity for evil. With Pearl, Hester’s life became one of uninterrupted nagging, and no joy. The child could not be made amenable to rules. Hester even remarks to herself, “Oh Father in heaven – if thou art still my father – what is this being which I have brought into the world” (Hawthorne 89)? Pearl would harass her mother Piyasena/Pine 2 over the scarlet “A” she wore. In time, Hester was subjected to so much ridicule from Pearl and others that she was forced into seclusion. Pearl represents the sins of both Hester and Dimmesdale. Pearl is said to be the direct consequence of sin (Martin 108). Their sins include lying to the persons regarding the affair that led to Pearl. Hester realizes what Pearl represents when she does not hold Pearl up in front of the “A.” She carries the child around because it is a direct reflectiveness of her sin. Hester is, “wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another” (Hawthorne 48). Dimmesdale’s sin is not adultery but not having the courage to confess that he had adulterated. Therefore his is a “concealed sin.” The scarlet letter amuses Pearl, and likewise controls her behavior. It is cited that, Pearl has been described in terms closely totally of uncontrolled, chaotic passion (MacLean 54). Throughout the novel Pearl is attracted to the “A.” Even when she is just a baby, “her infant’s eyes had been caught by the glimmering of the gold embroidery in regards to the letter” (Hawthorne 90). When Pearl is older and Hester throws the letter on the ground, Pearl yells at her mother until she places the “A” back on her bosom. Hawthorne says that Pearl is, “the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life,” (95) which proves the she is veritably the scarlet letter. Throughout the book the “A” is the sign by which the colonial authority seek to repair the crime and the criminal (Ragussis 97), though the cloth shows the sin so does Pearl. She is a far more inviolable device for punishing Hester than Piyasena/Pine 3 the piece of cloth on Hester’s chest. Due to her influence, Pearl becomes the chief agent to her mother’s salvation. Hester and Dimmesdale part much guilt feelings because of Pearl. Dimmesdale’s guilty conscience is filled with mental anguish, and serves as a continuous reminder of his sin. Dimmesdale is a minister [who] commits adultery and is driven to public confession by remorse (Martin 108). He remains silent so that he may carry on to do God’s work as a minister. It is said that he was a guilty reputation [who] finds empathy in connection with others (Peckham 92). Pearl brings him guilty conscience when he would not stand with them on the scaffold; “Thou was not bold! – thou wast not true! … Thou wouldst not promise to take my hand, and my mother’s hand, tomorrow noontide” (Hawthorne 150)! Hester’s guilt, however, is derived from both Chillingsworth and Dimmesdale. Chillingsworth married a woman who did not love him, which is one of the causes of Hester’s guilt. Dimmesdale causes her guilt feelings when he sees her suffering alone for the sin that they both committed. Though they both consecrated the same sin, only Hester’s shines through. Pearl was cheerful due to the scarlet letter her mother possessed. When the breastplate at Governor Bellingham’s Mansion distorts the scarlet “A” into something overpowering and horrible, it is Pearl who points at it, “smiling at her mother with the elfish intelligence that was so intimate an expression on her little physiognomy” (Hawthorne 99). Even as a child, Pearl is affixed to the letter “and, putting up her little hand, she grasped it, [the letter] smiling, not doubtfully, but Piyasena/Pine 4 with a decisive gleam” (Hawthorne 90). Pearl’s tendency to focus on the scarlet letter is to a complete degree formulated when she mimics her mother by placing a seaweed “A” on her own chest. Much of Pearl’s strangeness comes from her particular quickness of mind and the unnatural surroundings in which she is reared with only her mother as a companion. As Pearl develops a personality, she becomes symbolic of the kind of passion that accompanied Hester’s sin. Hester endured Pearl’s pretentious conduct but could not find it in her heart to condemn the child. As Pearl therefore becomes so closely related with the letter “A” on Hester’s breast she becomes the embodiment not only of Hester’s sin but also of her conscience. Nature is an funny sideline for Pearl; accordingly one of her bestloved actions is playing with flowers and trees. She fits in with natural things, “and she was gentler here [the forest] then in the grassy margined streets of the settlement, or in her mother’s cottage” as Hawthorne notes in the novel (202). She is so almost related to nature that the creatures of the forest approach her rather of disperse. “The mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognized a kindred wildness in the humane child” Hawthorne notes as Pearl is on a walk with her mother (202). However, the Puritans believed that anything related with the forest was evil; therefore, Pearl defies their laws by being effervescent and joyful in the woods. Some of the Puritans even believe her to be a demon offspring. So strange is her conduct that she is often referred to in such terms as “elf child,” Piyasena/Pine 5 “imp,” and “airy sprite.” Pearl is a virtual shouting match amidst the Puritanical views and the Romantic ways. Pearl is a source of a good deal of kinds of symbolism. She is both a rose and in truth the scarlet letter. If she had not been born, Hester would not have had to wear the letter. Pearl is a burden to Hester; yet Hester loves her. She is also her mother’s only treasure and her only source of survival. Without Pearl, Hester would have lived a dissimilar life, one without the scarlet letter, one without sin, and one without her treasure.
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