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Essay Archive - The Scarlet Letter: The Puritans Are Wrong in Thinking That Pearl Is Wicked
The Scarlet Letter: The Puritans Are Wrong in Thinking That Pearl Is Wicked
"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 character named Pearl, yet the author, who lived in
the Romantic period, views her with awe and reverence. Nathaniel
Hawthorne's use of nature imagery in The Scarlet Letter reflects Pearl's
wild, capricious character that serves as a constant reminder of Hester's
sin and who....
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