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September 30th, 2007 Daniel Sun 12CvR Character Analysis: Pearl In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the character of Pearl is a complicated symbol represented in the form of a human child. Her affinity with the scarlet letter is stressed throughout the novel with the use of symbolic colors, reflecting her relationships with the people around her and the power of human vitality and resilience in the face of prejudice and injustice. Pearl is the living personification of the scarlet letter: "It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life." (Page 98) She is the symbol and consequence of her mother's forbidden sin of adultery and an indicator of a transgression. The clothing Hester Prynne chose to dress Pearl in further augments the connection between Pearl and the scarlet letter. She wears a "crimson velvet tunic of a peculiar cut, abundantly embroidered with fantasies and flourishes...

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