When there are lies there is truth, with every sin there is redemption, and with every human there is intuition. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, the Scarlet Letter, the secondary character Pearl is used as a symbol that pertains to the novel’s theme. Pearl is the daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, and she is considered to be the child of sin. However, Pearl is a symbol for truth, redemption, and intuition. Pearl is a symbol of truth. The Gothic Romantic novel uses nature as a sign of truthfulness, as nature never takes sides and is seen as being “pure.” Pearl is connected with nature and is thus connected with being the “truth.” Pearl is described in chapter 19 through nature as “The mother-forest, and these wild things which