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The Scarlet Letter Pearl
841 wordsIn The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, many of the characters suffer from the tolls of sin, but none as horribly as Hester's daughter Pearl. She alone suffers from sin that is not her own, but rather that of her mother. From the day she is conceived, Pearl is portrayed as an offspring of evil. She is brought introduced to the pitiless domain of the Puritan religion from inside a jail, a place where no light can touch the depths of her mother's sin. The austere Puritan ways punish Hester t...
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Indian Tribes Puritan Children
1,087 wordsThe book The Unredeemed Captive is a story about the French-Indian raid on the small town of Deerfield Massachusetts. The raid is not a total surprise to the people of Deerfield, they find out a few days prior to the incident. They hear of towns east of them being attacked. The town of Deerfield did not feel that they were to be affected by the Indians. These few extra days to prepare for the Savages, did not help out, in protecting the town. The Indians came, and wreaked havoc on the small coun...
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The Importance Of Pearl Role In Scarlet Letter
1,711 wordsOne of the most complex and elaborate characters in The Scarlet Letter is Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Pearl, throughout the story, develops into a dynamic individual, as well as an extremely important symbol- one who is constantly changing. Pearl is involved in a complex history, and as a result is viewed as different and is shunned because of her mothers sin. Pearl is a living Scarlet A to Hester, as well as the reader, acting as a constant reminder of Hester's s...
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Quot A Quot Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,206 wordsOne of the most complex and elaborate characters in The Scarlet Letter is Pearl, the misbegotten offspring of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Throughout the story Pearl, becomes quite the dynamic little individual, as well as an extremely important symbol- one who is constantly changing. Pearl? s involvement in the complex history of her parents inadvertently forced her to be viewed as different and is shunned because of her mother? s sin. Pearl is a living scarlet letter to Hester, Dimmesd...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Hester And Pearl
1,816 wordsScarlet Letter Paper What is one man? s poison? is another? s meat or drink, Beaumont and Fletcher wrote in one of their plays. Almost everything in the world is interpretable in at least two conflicting ways. In The Scarlet Letter, the Puritan society shuns a character named Pearl, yet the author, who lived in the Romantic period, views her with awe and reverence. Nathaniel Hawthorne? s use of nature imagery in The Scarlet Letter reflects Pearl? s wild, capricious character that serves as a con...
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