From her introduction as an infant on her mother's scaffold of shame to the stormy peak of the story, Pearl is an empathetic and intelligent child. Throughout the story she absorbs the hidden emotions of her mother and magnifies them for all to see. Pearl is the essence of literary symbolism. She is, at times, a vehicle for Hawthorne to express the inconsistent and translucent qualities of Hester and Dimmesdale's unlawful bond, and at others a forceful reminder of her mother's sin.

Pearl Prynne is her mother's most precious possession and her only reason to live, but also serves as a priceless treasure purchased with her life. Pearl's strange beauty and deeply enigmatic qualities make her the most powerful symbol Hawthorne has ever created. The product of Hester's sin and agony, Pearl was a painfully constant reminder of her mother's violation o

The Scarlet Letter is overflowing with masterfully wrought symbolism and representation, but Pearl Prynne is the purest and deepest symbol in the story. She was born not only out of utter sin, but out of the deepest and most absolute love imaginable. She serves as a messenger of God's salvation through pain, and as a symbol of all that is blessed and content in Hester Prynne's life. In the end, it is Pearl who kisses Arthur Dimmesdale as he lies dying on the scaffold, having admitted his sin. She breaks a spell that had lain over the dyad in adultery and herself - the product of their sin - , completing her service as a symbol of pain and hardship, but more importantly a symbol of love, salvation, and the deep bond between two lovers condemned by the strict decorum of the Puritan days.

Pearl represented the part of Hester to be always dulled by the searing judgment of others in that she was Hester's ceaseless reminder of the sin she had committed, but also symbolized everything about Hester that was free and alive. Pearl is the only happiness in Hester Prynne's lonely life. Without a child to care for, teach, and love, Hester would have long ago given her soul and life over to evil. When town authorities, shocked at Pearl's apparent belief that she was plucked from a rose bush and not created by God, recommend she be taken from Hester and placed in a school, Hester responds with the following: "God gave me this child!... She is my happiness, she is my torture none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life!...Ye shall not take her! I will die first!"

Another important symbol that makes up Pearl is her significance as Hester's only tie to Minister Dimmesdale, her partner in adultery. Pearl is imbued with an unear

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