What Does The Pestel Symbolize In The Scarlet Letter

It is clear that if Hester had never gotten pregnant with Pearl in the first place nobody would have really figured out that she and Dimmesdale committed adultery. Besides the fact that Pearl almost indirectly showed everyone that Hester committed adultery because her husband was in England, yet she was pregnant. Although it turns out that Hawthorne wrote her in with greater intention than just a means for the people to find out about Hester’s pregnancy. Pearl was put into the story to show readers that wonderful things can come from situations viewed as evil or sinful. Starting from the very beginning of Pearl we have her birth. The mere presence of this child is an “act against god” because Hester committed adultery when she slept with another man who was not her husband. Then later in the book Pearl is often described as an “imp”, which is in simplest terms a spawn of satan. In fact there are even points where her own mother believes that the devil was inside of her daughter. Hawthorne uses this description of Pearl to really help illustrate the magnitude of this sin in this time period, so to many people Pearl was viewed as the devil. Although as we get to know Pearl we begin to see she is more than that. Her kisses can even be viewed as a symbol of acceptance and forgiveness. The whole novel Pearl withholds her kisses from Dimmesdale. For example, when they are in the woods he kisses her forehead and she kind of glares at him and goes to the creek to wash off the kiss. Even though Hester and Dimmesdale essentially told …show more content…
Hawthorne put Pearl in the play to show demonstrate that good things can come from horrible and sinful situations. Pearl showed Dimmesdale and Hester that there was always a light at the end of the tunnel, and that even though life seems hard it will always get