Реферат: Scarlet Letter Essay Research Paper Often throughout

as beautiful as a flower and often tries to smother flowers and

kill them off. The religious descriptions of Pearl are often

used to show the Puritan ideals of the fact that the mother

committed adultery. Even though the child can not help that she

has been labeled as an outcast the rest of her life

indefinitely. Cited conscientiously, “Pearl was a born outcast

of the infantile world. An imp of evil, emblem and product of

sin, she had no right among Christian infants.” (pg. 86). These

people which are supposed to be Christian and love their

neighbors are being total hypocrites by despising a child just

because they believe that it was erected by the process of a

sinful act. Even her simple childhood temper tantrums are

described as being evil; “…with shrill, incoherent

exclamations, that made her mother tremble because they had so

much the sound of a witch’s anathemas in some unknown tongue.”

(pg. 86). Hawthorne uses the witch connotation to give it more

image as to what exactly it was that the Puritans feared the

most. Even Pearl’s own mother, an outcast herself, is

frightened by these temper tantrums. Throughout the book there

are examples of when Pearl has almost some kind of supernatural

ability to see things the way that they really are. A child

these young with these gifts of perception would definitely

have been viewed evil in Puritan society. It was assumed to be

some type of witchcraft. This is even more obvious with the

observations that she makes. When Pearl questions her mother as

to where she came from, the response typically was “the

Heavenly Father.” Pearl then proceeds to point at Hester’s

scarlet letter and replies that she did not come from the

heavenly father. This statement at such a young age reflects