Think about a typically three year old, maybe a younger sister or cousin. Most toddlers are happy-go-luck. They blissfully run around unaware of the world around them. Small children are seen as innocent, and that they must be protected from the corrupt and sinful world around them. Young children are the center of attention, and people migrate towards them. The picturesque three year old has a mom, a dad and maybe an older or younger sibling. Pearl is doing regarded as having any of the attributes above. She is a productive of adultery, and is treated as if she is the offspring of the devil. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Hester’s daughter Pearl portrayed by the contrasting traits angelic and demonic. First, Pearl can be thought
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Pearl is “a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished,” she was given Hester to punish her and she may have been on this earth to make Hester’s life more of a living hell. Hester has a fear of Pearl she sees “ever dreading to detect some dark arid wild peculiarity,” and “guiltiness to which she owed her being,” mean Pearl meant to a constant reminder of her sin. Pearl sometimes displayed a delish look “it was a look so intelligent, yet inexplicable, so perverse, sometimes so malicious,” showing that she was plotting to do some kind of evil act. Pearl, like most toddlers through tantrums but her were much more extreme “Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath” and “incoherent exclamations that made her mother tremble,” expressing terrifying abnormality of the child’s outburst. Hester even had a strange feeling about Pearl when she stated “O Father in Heaven,—if Thou art still my Father,—what is this being which I have brought into the world!” she thought the Pearl maybe a devil. The child had is also showed to enjoy her mother’s suffering, “she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild-flowers, and flinging them, one by one, at her mother’s bosom; dancing up and down, like a little elf, whenever she hit the scarlet letter,” this would cause Hester “to cover her bosom with her clasped
Pearl is “a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished,” she was given Hester to punish her and she may have been on this earth to make Hester’s life more of a living hell. Hester has a fear of Pearl she sees “ever dreading to detect some dark arid wild peculiarity,” and “guiltiness to which she owed her being,” mean Pearl meant to a constant reminder of her sin. Pearl sometimes displayed a delish look “it was a look so intelligent, yet inexplicable, so perverse, sometimes so malicious,” showing that she was plotting to do some kind of evil act. Pearl, like most toddlers through tantrums but her were much more extreme “Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath” and “incoherent exclamations that made her mother tremble,” expressing terrifying abnormality of the child’s outburst. Hester even had a strange feeling about Pearl when she stated “O Father in Heaven,—if Thou art still my Father,—what is this being which I have brought into the world!” she thought the Pearl maybe a devil. The child had is also showed to enjoy her mother’s suffering, “she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild-flowers, and flinging them, one by one, at her mother’s bosom; dancing up and down, like a little elf, whenever she hit the scarlet letter,” this would cause Hester “to cover her bosom with her clasped