Lillian Ricci
Ms Williams
Honors English III
2/28/2023
Scarlet Letter
“But a man or woman who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself or herself.” -Proverbs 6:32. This quote describes Hester Prynne in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne sins this book out of wedlock with Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and has Pearl. Pearl Prynne, the daughter of Hester Prynne, is the most changed character in this story, from being accused of witchcraft to being a happy wife to her own family.
Pearl is an unnatural newborn infant, as the town puts it. She was an “outcast” (85) to society, an “evil”(85) infant. Pearl had no right to walk among the other christened infants. When Pearl was at home in the cottage with Hester, she had a lot of materials. Pearl had some materials that were a
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“But then the elf-child sighed, and gave up her sport; because it grieved her to have done harm to a little being that was as wild as the sea-breeze, or as wild as Pearl herself” (160). Explain. “Pearl looked up, with mischief gleaming in her black eyes. “Hold thy tongue, naughty child!” answered her mother, with an asperity that she had never permitted to herself before.” (164). Explain. “[H]owever inured to such behavior on the elf-child’s part at other seasons, was naturally anxious for a more seemly deportment now. “Leap across the brook, naughty child, and run hither! Else I must come to thee!”(188-189)
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Topic sentence about pearl changing into not a devil child. “The truth seems to be, however, that the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognized a kindred wildness in the human child”(184-185). Explain why. GET BETTER QUOTE. “Pearl was not only alive, but married, and happy, and mindful of her mother, and that she would most joyfully have entertained that sad and lonely mother at her fireside”(233-234). Explain. End topic sentence.
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