Thus, Pearl’s existence gives her mother reason to live, bolstering her spirits when she is tempted to give up; acting as a hero who constantly saves her mother from the tortures of Puritan society. However, Pearl also acts as a constant remaindered to her mother of her inescapable sin, and therefore can also be seen as a non-heroic character. Throughout the novel Pearl constantly defends her mother when people of their community are threatening her. When Hester and Pearl are attacked by a group of children, who try to fling mud at them Pearl becomes angry. She frightens the children off and she throws rocks at them.
The townsfolk develop a mysterious wonderment as to why Hester seems relatively unfazed wearing the letter day in day out. “But did ever a woman, before this brazen hussy, contrive such a way of showing it! Why, gossips, what is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for a punishment?”(Hawthorne et al. 47). Her reputation as time passes continuously gets better because people will speak with her and realize she is not an evil, dark
She realises that the knowledge she has is something to be grateful for (although at his stage she is not willing to pursue it) and she accepts that there is something positive about Anys. This leads on to a second point. 2. Anys has pride but pride in the positive sense - she has self-pride. Even as a child she was self-possessed (see p52f) which the shy Anna finds admirable.
Alice Paul and her colleagues were not afraid to stand up for what they believed in and did not back down no matter what the situation. She validated this statement when she and her colleagues picketed the white house at its very door steps. She continued to do so, despite some of her fellow members being jailed, until she herself was jailed. But she did not stop then, even in jail she took a stand for her beliefs and gained national recognition. By demonstrating their beliefs publically they enlightened and gained many supporters, but at the same time faced much opposition.
Many people assume that children do not know anything and are generally immature. Hester’s daughter, Pearl, did not fall into this assumption. Her over-maturity made her an important character in the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Throughout the novel, readers come across the story of Hester Prynne; a young woman in a Puritan town that had been caught having committed an adulterous act with the town’s minister, thus conceiving her daughter, Pearl. After being caught and having been forced to wear a scarlet “A” representing her act of adultery, Hester tries to continue on with life along with her daughter, while being shunned by the townspeople of Boston, Massachusetts.
Joe Romano conveys this in his essay “Sacrifice, Solidarity, and Senselessness” by stating, “The fear that the village girls show when they see Nancy choose her slip of paper and the “general sigh” that the crowd exhibits fear that the village feels as it risks its youngest members” (Romano 849). However, this is where their caring ends, because the control of this group tradition is so strong that had Nancy been chosen the village would not have hesitated to stone her to death. Romano later writes, “This fear, however, does not clearly lead to a crisis of conscience; instead, the villagers release this fear by participating in a violent sacrificial killing that bonds the group in an act of solidarity” (Romano 849). The power of group persuasion is so dangerous because it causes people not to think for themselves.
Hester worked hard to get the towns people to respect her, the little bit they do by making clothes for the whole town except for brides because they were thought to be pure. Hester tried her best to raise Pearl up right but not be too strict because the town’s children were already hard on her for what Hester had done. Hester walks through the town with no guilt or shame as if she has pride to show the towns people that she takes the punishment that she deserved without any regrets.
He uses numerous words to express ideas and emotions instead of quickly being straight forward and conclusive. He uses diction in almost every sentence to boost our intellect; make it seem more real. In the passage Hawthorne writes “Although she hid the secret from herself, and grew pale whenever it struggled out of her heart, like a serpent from its hole,” instead of simply writing a conclusive passage such as “She hid the secret from her mind and grew sick to herself whenever she thought of her committed sin.” Hawthorne also uses devices such as syntax in his writing of The Scarlet Letter; his sentence structure is often very weighty. Hawthorne’s paragraph includes one-two drawn out sentences. With an abundance of asides, which the whole passage is, and bits of detail that create and amazingly complex set of ideas, Hawthorne manages to successfully conjure his image of Puritan society and how they treat Hester.
Even though she may be a little girl in most of the book, she is lively, intelligent, and can get to peoples mind not like any other youngster that you know. Pearl is the symbol that Hester gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, showing that Hester’s sin didn’t create a demon child, nor was Hester committing adultery a terrible thing. If you comprehend it, Pearl is the living example that The Scarlet Letter is a load of barnacles. Hester sees this and loves Pearl very much, even willing to die for her. As the scene unfolds in chapter 8, the head men of the village are deciding if they should take Pearl (The demon child) away from Hester or not.
She was care-fee and mischievous. She also remained friends with Heathcliff despite her brother’s disapproval, which shows her disregard for social standards. They even made a pact to grow up as savages together, which further removed them from society's customs. But when Catherine went to go live with the Linton’s for a while she changed into a proper young lady because she had the proper education for a young lady in her