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Precocious Pearl
Title: Precocious Pearl
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2275 | Pages: 9.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Precocious Pearl
Children are, by nature, incredibly sensitive creatures. They can sense almost any emotion an adult might feel just by
observing a particular person’s body language and facial expressions. Such is the case with the youthful Pearl from the novel The
Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. As the daughter of the adulteress Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, the townspeople
view Pearl as a demon in an angel’s clothing; as an imp who not only …showed first 75 words of 2275 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2275 total…stereotype. The real Pearl, the inquisitive,
intelligent, and beautiful creature she is, becomes the symbol for salvation in this novel. Pearl may be the product of sin and
"filthiness," yet she possesses traits that make her an amazing child. Indeed, Pearl is the rosebush which grows near the prison door:
she is the one bright spot the prisoners of this novel see as they watch from their small windows in the dungeon of their minds.
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