The Scarlet Letter Pearl

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are many characters that suffer from the tolls of sin but none as horribly as Hester's daughter, Pearl. She alone suffers from sin that is not her own, but rather that of her mother. She is always considered as an outcast because she is the product of adultery. From the day she is conceived, Pearl is portrayed as an offspring of evil. She is brought into the …

…moment able to live her life without the weight of her mother's sin. Pearl is an offspring of sin whose life revolves around the affair between her mother and Reverend Dimmesdale. She is a symbol of an act of love and passion and also adultery. Pearl stands out as a radiant child implicated in the sin between her parents. It is only once the sin is publicly revealed that she is liberated by the truth.