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Scarlet Letter- Pearl
Title: Scarlet Letter- Pearl
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1180 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Scarlet Letter- Pearl
Scarlet Letter- Pearl
Pearls have always held a great price to mankind, but no pearl had ever been earned at as high a cost to a person as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s powerful heroine Hester Prynne. Her daughter Pearl, born into a Puritan prison in more ways than one, is an enigmatic character serving entirely as a vehicle for symbolism. From her introduction as an infant on her mother’s scaffold of shame to the stormy …showed first 75 words of 1180 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1180 total…life. In the end, it is Pearl who kisses Arthur Dimmesdale as he lies dying on the scaffold, having admitted his sin. She breaks a spell that had lain over the dyad in adultery and herself - the product of their sin - , completing her service as a symbol of pain and hardship, but more importantly a symbol of love, salvation, and the deep bond between two lovers condemned by the strict decorum of the Puritan days.
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