Pearl: A living ‘A’ in the Scarlet Letter
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Transcript of Pearl: A living ‘A’ in the Scarlet Letter
Prepared By: Shabana Khalani
Roll No:28
Sem-III
Paper No:10
Unit No2:
Department Of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsihji University,
Bhavnagar
PEARL: A LIVING ‘A’ IN
THE SCARLET LETTER
There are three leading characters in the
novel.
These characters are:
1. Hester Prynne
2. Arthur Dimmesdale
3. Roger Chillingworth
The theme of the novel belongs to the Puritan
Age.
Adultery is the theme of the novel.
CHARACTERS AND THEME
Hester‘s adultery with the priest Dimmesedale
Hester’s punishment in front of society in
scaffold scene she for her sin
Hester’s daughter Pearl was in her hand
Dimmesale’s silence in spite of equally
responsible for the sin
Cillingworth, Hester’s husband gesture for
demanding silence
CHARACTERS AND THEMES CONTI..
Hester had to wear Red ‘A’ on her
bosom which stands for Adulteress
She was forced to live isolated
life with Pearl
Hester changed the meaning of
“A”
MEANING OF ‘A’
Adultery Angel
Illegitimate Daughter of
Hester
She asks difficult
questions to her mother
She is the only person
who was with the Hester
during her tough time
Pearl’s important role
more as a dynamic force
of moral guardian than a
static symbol of sin in the
plot
PEARL
She’s the only link language between her
mother Hester and father Dimmesedale
Pearl had to live with her mother in the community
Pearl and Hester lived in the forest in isolation as
a punishment.
She refuse Dimmesedale to kiss on her forehead
saying that why in private? The negligence in
public is quite odd matter for her.
Her suffering and pain is the result of her parents’
sin
PEARL
Hawthorne described Pearl as
“The child could not be made amenable to rules. In giving her
existence, a great law had been broken; and the result was a
being whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but
all in disorder…The mother‘s impassioned state had been the
medium through which were transmitted to the unborn infant
the rays of its moral life: and, however white and clear
originally, they had taken the deep stains of crimson and gold,
the fiery luster, the black shadow, and the untempered light of
the intervening substance .”
PEARL
Hawthorn put a direct real satire on Society by
projecting a Daughter becomes a curse / a burden
for her mother Hester’s life
Hester through out her life is the moral being just as
pure as Pearl.
Pearl is a child out of wedlock yet she shares the
same life as pure as her mother the way as the Letter
‘A’ for Adultery converts into the Angel for Hester.
Thus, we can says the Pearl is the living Letter ‘A’ in
the Scarlet letter
PEARL