Pearl, in the literal meaning, often represents pure and flawless. Created as a character in the book Scarlet letter by Hawthorne, as a Romantic, he sees the darkness side of the Puritans. Pearl’s interactions with different elements in the book resembles deep meanings. In the Scarlet letter, Hawthorne uses Pearl as a symbol to demonstrate the corruptness of Puritan beliefs and to express the Romantic’s perspective through her actions and verbal.
Pearl’s relationship is built on Hester’s rough view on the Puritan’s perspective but is no longer connected as Hester’s thoughts turns towards the Puritan’s side. Pearl is born with to emphasis Hester which is her mom’s sin due to Hester’s dishonesty to her previous relationship. For Hester, …show more content…
After the confessing that Hester did in the public, the Puritans view Pearl as devilish and guilty due to Hester’s sin. Hester, on the other hand think that Pearl is a present from God and she presents it by having a discussion with the governor on whether or not she should keep Pearl. When Pearl and Hester are at the governor's hall, they saw “There were a few rose bushes ” out and surrounded by ugly and rotted plants and Pearl starts to “cry” (73) when she makes sense of it. Pearl’s reaction of crying reflects her pettiness towards the beautiful red bushes that’s surrounding by the ugly plants. The allusion of the environment in the governor's hall is similar to Hester with the red and bright scarlet letter on the scaffold and expose to the Puritans who are wearing dark and boring cloth. Pearl’s pettiness towards the red rose bushes, shows her pettiness towards the people who are not affected by the corrupted society but still have to bare the Puritan’s judgetive comment inside of them. As the story goes on, Hester had a lot of problem with keeping Pearl, and Pearl has to stay alone by herself. When Pearl is waiting outside by herself, she found it interesting by throwing stones at the birds with no sympathy until she sees the Broken …show more content…
Pearl changed her behavior towards Hester as she became more affected by this Puritan society that wants to escape to New England with Dimmesdale without helping Dimmesdale to fulfill himself. To the nature, Pearl appears to be the closest when she is surrounded by nature and appears to be relax. Pearl gets disappointed by the minister when he shows no sign of confess in front of the public, but the moment he does, Pearl is happy to see the changes and the correct decision that Dimmesdale had made. Pearl seems to be closer when a character appears to be more Romantic like and ignore the society’s view, and she separate herself from the character when she sees a more Puritanism on them. Pearl, in the book scarlet letter under Hawthorne's pen, doing a role of symbolizing Romantic’s perspective, demonstrates the Romantic criticisms towards Puritan's
Pearl’s relationship is built on Hester’s rough view on the Puritan’s perspective but is no longer connected as Hester’s thoughts turns towards the Puritan’s side. Pearl is born with to emphasis Hester which is her mom’s sin due to Hester’s dishonesty to her previous relationship. For Hester, …show more content…
After the confessing that Hester did in the public, the Puritans view Pearl as devilish and guilty due to Hester’s sin. Hester, on the other hand think that Pearl is a present from God and she presents it by having a discussion with the governor on whether or not she should keep Pearl. When Pearl and Hester are at the governor's hall, they saw “There were a few rose bushes ” out and surrounded by ugly and rotted plants and Pearl starts to “cry” (73) when she makes sense of it. Pearl’s reaction of crying reflects her pettiness towards the beautiful red bushes that’s surrounding by the ugly plants. The allusion of the environment in the governor's hall is similar to Hester with the red and bright scarlet letter on the scaffold and expose to the Puritans who are wearing dark and boring cloth. Pearl’s pettiness towards the red rose bushes, shows her pettiness towards the people who are not affected by the corrupted society but still have to bare the Puritan’s judgetive comment inside of them. As the story goes on, Hester had a lot of problem with keeping Pearl, and Pearl has to stay alone by herself. When Pearl is waiting outside by herself, she found it interesting by throwing stones at the birds with no sympathy until she sees the Broken …show more content…
Pearl changed her behavior towards Hester as she became more affected by this Puritan society that wants to escape to New England with Dimmesdale without helping Dimmesdale to fulfill himself. To the nature, Pearl appears to be the closest when she is surrounded by nature and appears to be relax. Pearl gets disappointed by the minister when he shows no sign of confess in front of the public, but the moment he does, Pearl is happy to see the changes and the correct decision that Dimmesdale had made. Pearl seems to be closer when a character appears to be more Romantic like and ignore the society’s view, and she separate herself from the character when she sees a more Puritanism on them. Pearl, in the book scarlet letter under Hawthorne's pen, doing a role of symbolizing Romantic’s perspective, demonstrates the Romantic criticisms towards Puritan's