Pearl Hester Prynn

Pearl, since the day she was conceived, was thought of as a child of sin because of her mother’s adultery. She found herself being introduced to a cruel world of discrimination from inside a jail. Born in a jail, she found herself in a cruel, discriminating world of the Puritan religion. The harsh Puritan ways punish Hester through banishment from the community and the church, simultaneously punishing Pearl in the process.This isolation leads to an unexpressed detachment and hostility between her and the other children. Therefore we see how Pearl is conceived through sin, and how she suffers when her mother and the community situate this deed upon her like the scarlet letter on her mother's bosom. Hester Prynn influences her feelings of guilt onto Pearl, whom she sees as a prompt of her faults,

In fact, by today's standards, such dreadful analysis for what is now considered an everyday occurrence was more bitter than murders suffer by current standards. In those days, the Puritans saw to it that such a crime was "punishable by death"; behavior so unbecoming of a religious admirer earn no less. This had a big impact on Pearl children are born innocent and are innocent in all things until taught a different disposition in which to live their lives. Pearl was used to symbolize the scarlet letter "A." He also uses Pearl as a tactic to make Hester and Reverend Dimmesdale embrace their sin of Adultery. Pearl attains this by making Dimmesdale avow to the town that he has committed this sin. When the Puritans look at Hester and Pearl, they think that Pearl is a child of the devil and think she is a black-hearted girl because she is the result of a sin, so she starts acting like she’s the devil’s child by throwing stones at other children and things of that nature. Wanting to keep Pearl Hester says, “keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me