Pearl as an Expression of Hester’s Emotions in Hawthornes The Scarlet

The sanguine letter os as an Expression of Hesters Hidden Emotions In literature, authors often represent a characters hidden emotions or informal thoughts by presenting them in a separate character. Such is the case in Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter as he uses Pearl to express Hesters inner thoughts and hidden emotions. Above both, the warfare of Hesters spirit, at that epoch, was perpetuated in Pearl. disrespect the public shame she has experienced and many years of wearing the jot of her adulterous sin, Hester Prynne remains proud and displays her letter boldly. Anyone that did not possess sort of her level of emotional stamina and pride would have surely fall in character and may possibly even lose all hope in life, but Hester proves to be very different. Instead of reacting to the discomposure and remarks of the commons in a hostile manner, Hester instead ignores these things and focuses her mind more than toward memories of years past, as she did while sta nding on the scaffold for the start time. Hawthorne thus uses her young, spriteful daughter, Pearl, to represent the emotions that Hester either cannot, or chooses not to, display openly to others. In chapter 6, Pearl is described as showing a admire of mischief and a disrespect for authority, which frequently reminded Hester of her own sin of passion. Similarly, in Pearls games of make-believe, she never creates friends. She creates only enemies Puritans whom she pretends to destroy. It is a rare occurrence that a child so young in age should retrieve such thoughts of morbidity, thus strengthening the evidence of Hawthornes use of Pearl as a display of Hesters thoughts thoughts of retaliating against the Puritans for ... ...ks Cited Chase, Richard (1996). The Ambiguity of the Scarlet Letter. Readings on Nathaniel Hawthorne (pp. 145-152). San Diego Greenhaven. Fiedler, Leslie A. Love And Death In The American Novel. Normal Dalkey, 1998. Hawthorne, J. (1886, April). The Scar let Letter. The Atlantic Monthly On-line, pp. 1-20. Available http//wwww.theatlantic.com/unbound/classrev/scarlet.html Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. New York St. Martins, 1991. Loring, G. B. (1850). The Scarlet Letter and Transcendentalism. Massachusetts Quarterly Review On-line, pp. 1-6. Available http//eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/loring.html Scharnhorst, Gary. The Critical Response to Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter. New York Greenwood, 1992. Author unknown. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 99 On-line, pp. 1-4.