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An Analysis Of Pearl's Letter

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I was born and raised in England by my loving parents, who thought I was a bit precocious. This may have led me to be talked into marrying a much older man. He was a wealthy scholar who was well aware that I was not in love with him, never the less, we were wed. While living in Amsterdam, we decided to move to the Colony of Massachusetts in America. My husband, Roger Prynne, was to stay behind and settle our affairs while I traveled to the Colony to settle and await his arrival. Over a year had passed without a word from my husband and I feared he was lost at sea while trying to reach me. As I waited for notification of whether he was dead or alive, I had an illicit affair with a local pastor. The result of this affair was an unexpected pregnancy, which caused quite the scandal and eventually, my imprisonment. My daughter Pearl was born while I was in prison and her new home was a small cell which we shared. A few months after she born, I received my sentence for bearing a child from an unknown father. I was to live the rest of my life with a large letter A sewn onto the breast of my clothing. I also had to stand on the scaffold in the marketplace for three hours with my letter A prominently displayed and allow the townspeople to view my shame, presumably as both a punishment to me and a warning to all. When Pearl was …show more content…

She was very energetic and definitely had a devious way about her. The two of us were walking in the woods when she was about 7 years old when we came across Reverend Dimmesdale as he was walking back toward town. He looked to be in such poor health and fragile mind, I took him aside pleaded with him to fight for a chance to return to his former self. A plan was born for us to leave Boston in four days’ time, the day after he was to give an important sermon. We were both so excited about the possibility of a fresh start to our lives that we invited Pearl into our private

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This child of its father’s guilt and its mother’s shame hath come from the hand of God” (Evans). Though as much as she wants to question Pearl being her daughter, she realize that Pearl is a living reminder of her “sin” she has committed. In the novel “the talk of the neighboring townspeople...had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring...ever since old Catholic times…

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This was the first part in the book when Dimmesdale went on the scaffold with Hester and Pearl. When all three of them were on the scaffold Pearl was described as “Pearl she a symbol, and the connecting link between the two”(139). When they were on the scaffold pearl connected Hester and Dimmesdale. As soon as Pearl held hands with both of them she felt as if she was no longer a product of sin because of Hester and Dimemsdasles actions. When the townspeople saw this they thought that Pearl was a magical human that brought together two people in a tough time.

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When Hester and Dimmesdale are talking in the forest, and Pearl is playing nearby, he thinks aloud, “‘Dost thou think the child will be glad to know me?’ asked the minister, somewhat uneasily. ‘I have long shrunk from children, because they often show a distrust, -a backwardness to be familiar with me. I have been afraid of little Pearl!’ ” (244).

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