Justice In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'

earl has a mixed understanding of justice, which is to be expected from someone so young. Her experiences with justice have been contrastive, adding to her confusion over whether justice has been served righteously or unethically. In her own personal experiences, she has had injustice inflicted upon her. Pearl was born into sin and was, immediately, a product of a crime that she had no control over. This uncontrollable injustice led to a natural rift between Pearl and her mother as Hester's views of Pearl were masked with ideas of her own sin and transgression. This, in itself, is another injustice inflicted upon Pearl as her relationship with her mother is polluted by the constant reminder of a trespass that was out of her hands. It is apparent …show more content…
As a result of this confusion of justice, she has become her very own result “justice” towards her mother. Pearl is “PERFECT BEAUTY QUOTE”, but inside there is a sense of the supernatural as she switches from being a sweet child to acting as the devil in disguise. The very essence of her being has led her to become a product of strange, bipolar-like mood swings, which may be the result of her mother's disheveled perception of Pearl. Hester dressed the child up as the scarlet letter itself, which may lead into an identity crisis for young Pearl. Pearl sees herself in the scarlet letter, explained by the event in which Hester takes off her scarlet letter (QUOTE HERE). The scarlet letter is the epitome of her existence. When Pearl's mother decides to remove the A from her breast, Pearl believes that, in a way, Hester has cast her away, focusing on someone else instead. With having a rough, insecure relationship with her mother and not feeling her own sense of independence and being her own person, Pearl feels the work of injustice,