The Romantic’s Interpretation of Truth Even though that Romanticism happened after Puritanism, they still believed that the Puritan’s beliefs are wrong interpretation of truth of life. In the 18th century, when Romanticism arises, they started to criticize Puritan's beliefs. They believed that nature is the right element to determine the true meaning of life. Pearl, in literal meaning can be view as a part of the nature and, often represents purity. Created as a character in the book Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, as a Romantic, he sees the darker side of the Puritans. Pearl’s interactions with different elements in the book resembles deep meanings. In the Scarlet letter, Hawthorne uses Pearl as a symbol to demonstrate the corruptness
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After Hester confesses in the public, the Puritans view Pearl as devilish and guilty due to Hester’s sin. Hester, on the other hand, thinks that Pearl is a present from God and she presents it by having a discussion with the governor on keeping Pearl. When Pearl and Hester are in the governor's hall, they saw “There were a few rose bushes ” surrounded by ugly and rotten plants and Pearl starts to “cry” (73) when she makes sense of it. Pearl’s reaction of crying reflects her pettiness towards the beautiful red bushes surrounding by the ugly plants. The allusion of the environment in the governor's hall is similar to Hester with the red and bright scarlet letter on the scaffold that exposes to the Puritans who are wearing dark and boring cloth. Pearl’s pettiness towards the red rose bushes, shows her pettiness towards the people who are not affected by the corrupted society that bravely shows their inner thoughts, but still have to bare the Puritan’s judgetive comment inside of them. As the story goes on, Hester had a lot of problems with keeping Pearl, so Pearl has to stay alone by herself. When Pearl is waiting for Hester by herself, she found that it is interesting by throwing stones at the birds with no sympathy until she sees the broken wing on one of her targets, so she“grieve[s] (122).” After she sees the …show more content…
Pearl changed her behavior towards Hester as Hester became more affected by the beliefs of Puritan society by wanting to escape to New England with Dimmesdale without helping him to confess. Pearl appears to be more relax when she is surrounding by nature and shows more interests to nature than other people. Pearl gets disappointed by the minister when he shows no sign of confess in front of the public, but when the moment he does, Pearl is happy to see the changes and the correct decision that Dimmesdale had made. Pearl seems to be closer when a character appears to be more Romantic like and ignore the Puritan society’s judgmental view, and she separates herself from the character when she sees more Puritanism in them. Pearl, in the book Scarlet Letter under Hawthorne's writing, doing a role of expressing Romantic’s perspective, and demonstrates Romantic’s criticisms towards Puritan's
After Hester confesses in the public, the Puritans view Pearl as devilish and guilty due to Hester’s sin. Hester, on the other hand, thinks that Pearl is a present from God and she presents it by having a discussion with the governor on keeping Pearl. When Pearl and Hester are in the governor's hall, they saw “There were a few rose bushes ” surrounded by ugly and rotten plants and Pearl starts to “cry” (73) when she makes sense of it. Pearl’s reaction of crying reflects her pettiness towards the beautiful red bushes surrounding by the ugly plants. The allusion of the environment in the governor's hall is similar to Hester with the red and bright scarlet letter on the scaffold that exposes to the Puritans who are wearing dark and boring cloth. Pearl’s pettiness towards the red rose bushes, shows her pettiness towards the people who are not affected by the corrupted society that bravely shows their inner thoughts, but still have to bare the Puritan’s judgetive comment inside of them. As the story goes on, Hester had a lot of problems with keeping Pearl, so Pearl has to stay alone by herself. When Pearl is waiting for Hester by herself, she found that it is interesting by throwing stones at the birds with no sympathy until she sees the broken wing on one of her targets, so she“grieve[s] (122).” After she sees the …show more content…
Pearl changed her behavior towards Hester as Hester became more affected by the beliefs of Puritan society by wanting to escape to New England with Dimmesdale without helping him to confess. Pearl appears to be more relax when she is surrounding by nature and shows more interests to nature than other people. Pearl gets disappointed by the minister when he shows no sign of confess in front of the public, but when the moment he does, Pearl is happy to see the changes and the correct decision that Dimmesdale had made. Pearl seems to be closer when a character appears to be more Romantic like and ignore the Puritan society’s judgmental view, and she separates herself from the character when she sees more Puritanism in them. Pearl, in the book Scarlet Letter under Hawthorne's writing, doing a role of expressing Romantic’s perspective, and demonstrates Romantic’s criticisms towards Puritan's