Scarlet Letter is a novel with many symbolic features. In the novel as a whole, several characters represent the ideas. One of the most complex and misunderstood characters of the novel is Pearl, daughter of Hester Prynne. Pearl evolves into a dynamic symbol throughout the story – which always changes. Although Pearl changes, it always symbolizes evil. Pearls symbolize the wickedness of the story, showing God's punishment for Hester's sins, symbolizing guilt and scarlet dissimulation that governs his behavior and refuted Puritan laws to be fun and bound to nature. Pearl represents God's punishment Hester mocking and crying. Sometimes in the novel she felt like her mother as a witch (Matthiessen 104). He is a mix of powerful emotions, cruel anger and evil. With Pearl, Hester's life became a constant anger and not a pleasure. The child could not be controlled. Hester remembers himself, "Oh, the heavenly Father – if you are still my father – what is the creature I brought to the world?" (Hawthorne 89)? Pearl harasses her mother, Piyasena / Fenyő 2, under the scarlet "A". Over time, Hearer was so ridiculously ridiculous of Pearl and others that he was forced to lock in. Pearl represents both the sins of Hester and Dimmesdale. Pearl is the direct consequence of sin (Martin 108). Their sins include lying about the people that led to Pearl. Hester finds out what Pearl represents when he does not hold Pearl with "A." He carries the child because it directly reflects his sins. Hester, "wisely believes that a symbol of shame will serve poorly to hide the other." (Hawthorne 48) Dimmesdale's sin was not an adultery, but he did not have the courage to admit it was counterfeit. That is why he is a "hidden sin". With scarlet mail, Pearl has fun and controls his behavior. It should be noted that Pearl has almost exclusively described uncontrolled, chaotic passion (MacLean 54). The whole novel of Pearl is attracted to "A." Even if only one infant, "the baby's eyes got the glitter of gold embroidery on the leaf" (Hawthorne 90). When Pearl is older, and Hester throws the letter on the floor, Pearl shouts at his mother until he returns "A" to his chest. Hawthorne says Pearl: "Scarlet leaf in another form, scarlet leaf in life," (95), which proves that he is really a scarlet leaf. Throughout the book, "A" is the sign that the colonial authority seeks to preserve crime and guilt (Ragussis 97), although the garment is also shown by sin, so Pearl is. It is a much stronger tool for Hester than Piyasena / Pine 3 to punish Hester's chest. Practice makes Pearl the main agent of his mother's salvation. Hester and Dimmesdale attach a lot of sins to Pearl. Dimmesdale's sin is full of mental suffering, and his constant reminder is his sin. Dimmesdale a minister [who] commits adultery and sets up a public confession to repentance (Martin 108). He remains silent to continue to work as minister of God. They say he was guilty of [who] finding empathy with others (Peckham 92). Pearl brings her guilty feelings when she does not stand on the stand; "You were not brave … you were not right! … He did not promise to take my hand and my mother's hand tomorrow at noon" (Hawthorne 150)! But Hester's sin comes from both Chillingsworth and Dimmesdale. Chillingsworth married a woman who did not love her, which is one of Hester's guilt. Dimmesdale commits guilt when he only suffers the sin he has committed. Though both of them committed the same sin, only Hester shines. Pearl was cheerful of her mother's purple leaf. When the castle of the Castle of Bellingham Castle distorts scarlet "A" to something outrageous and horrible, Pearl points out that "he smiles with his mother with his cleaved intelligence, which was so familiar in his little physiognomy" (Hawthorne 99). Even as a child, Pearlet adheres to the letter "and raised his little hand, grasping it, smiling, no doubt, but Piyasena / Pine 4 with a definite glitter." (Hawthorne 90) Pearl tends to concentrate on scarlet leaves entirely He developed when he mimics his mother when he puts an "A" sea-smile on his chest. Many of Pearl's strange feelings come from his exceptional conscience and abnormal environment, in which he only associates with his mother. As Pearl creates a personality, it becomes symbolic of the suffering of Hester's sin. Hester tolerated Pearl's tactful behavior, but he did not find it in his heart to condemn the child. Since Pearl is so closely related to "A" in Hester's chest, it is not only the embodiment of Hester's sin, but also his conscience. Nature is an entertaining hobby for Pearl; Therefore, one of his favorite activities is playing with flowers and trees. It fits in with natural things, "and he was milder here, then in the grassy, lined streets of the town or in his mother's house," Hawthorne writes in the novel (202). It is so closely related to nature that the creatures of the forest approach it instead of dispersion. "The Mother Forest, and the wild things she nourished, everyone recognized a kind of sympathy for the human child," Hawthorne notes that Pearl is walking with her mother (202).
The Puritans However, that the forest is bound to be something evil; Therefore Pearl harasses the laws of being sparkling and cheerful in the woods. Some Puritans still believe that a demon is a successor. Behavior is often unusual, often referred to as "elf child", Piyasena / Pine 5 "imp" and "airy sprite". Pearl is a virtual shouting game between puritanical views and romantic ways. Pearl is a source of many forms of symbolism. He is both a rose and even a scarlet leaf. If he was not born, he would not have to bear the letter. The Pearl burden for Hester; Yet Hester loves her. She is the only treasure of her mother and her sole source of survival. Without Pearl, Hester would have lived another life, one without scarlet leaf, one without sin and one without treasure.
Source by Michael Cooper