cruel deeds against theminister. Pearl helped to create the conflict between Chillingworth andDimmesdale. Furthermore, Pearl's birth reminded Dimmesdale of his sin ofhaving an affair with Hester. Because of his cowardly personality,Dimmesdale tries to fast and whip the sin from his body plus "confessinghis sin as he faces his Sunday congregation" (Leavitt 74). The birth ofPearl ignited the conflict within Dimmesdale. Finally, the conflictbetween Pearl and the children of Boston surfaces. Pearl's red clothingbecomes a target of other children's jokes. If the affair had neverproduced a child, then the novel's major conflicts most likely would beless intense. Therefore, every major conflict has its roots with Pearl'sbirth. In Hawthorne's novel the Scarlet Letter, Pearl represents the anguishin the lives of the other major characters. Life in Puritan New Englandpresented many difficulties for Hester Prynne's daughter Pearl. Next,Pearl becomes a scarlet letter as the novel progresses. Finally, the mostsignificant part of the Scarlet Letter's plot was the birth and life ofPearl. The purpose of this essay was to analyze the character Pearl fromthe Scarlet Letter. Most of her characteristics show that Pearl could be a real child.For example, Pearl's language expresses a sign of a child prodigy with agood parent teacher. Pearl's behavior could also mean that she feelsrebellious to all of the hardships that she acquires from society. Finally,Pearl compares with a real child in that she constantly tries throughoutthe novel to find out what takes place around her. Overall, NathanielHawthorne developed Pearl successfully and made her one of the mostsignificant and memorable characters in the Scarlet Letter....
