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The Scarlet Letter: The Puritans Are Wrong In Thinking That Pearl Is Wicked
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"What is one man's poison is another's meat or drink," Beaumont and
Fletcher wrote in one of their plays. Almost everything in the world is
interpretable in at least two conflicting ways. In The Scarlet Letter, the
Puritan society shuns a char .... Middle of Term Paper
... immortal flower"(Hawthorne 81). Even though Pearl is a product of the
"guilty passion"(81) between Hester and Dimmesdale, both her soul and her
body are untainted and flawless. Hester notices that Pearl has no physical
defects, but Pearl's character has an unexplainable aspect of oddity and
unpredictability. When she plays near Hester's cottage, Pearl "[smites]
down [and] uproot[s] most unmercifully [the] ugliest weeds"(87) which she
pretends are the Puritan children. Hester believes that Pearl is so
emotional and temperamental because the passion which Hester and
Dimmesdale experienced during their sinful act somehow transferred into ... |
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