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Pearl

Pearl

In the novel The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorn Hester's daughter, Pearl, functions primarily as a symbol. She is quite young during most of the events of this novel; at the beginning
she is only a infant then we return to her at three and finally at seven. Her real importance lies in her ability to provoke the adult characters and this gives her the name Imp child during the novel. Pearl is also a burden and gift to her mother, which is why is called Pearl which comes from the Bible "the pearl of great price." Pearl is also fascinated with the letter of shame that her mother wears.
Pearl is first off a symbol in this novel for many reasons. Her name to begin with was a symbol that her mother, Hester, had given here which had came from the Bible. It means that she is a gift from a very harsh and hard price, which was the adultery that she committed
to bring Pearl into the world. Also this makes her the living symbol of Hester's sin, and this......


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