. . It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my bosom yet!” This quote is important because it shows the importance of the scarlet letter such as humanness and sinfulness. Pearl sees things that normal people do not see, so she points out, metaphorically but also literally, that sunshine doesnt hit the scarlet letter. I like this quote because it shows how Pearl points out the truth without evening knowing it because she is so young and innocent.
She does know but she doesn’t want to. This is why she tells the children to ‘fill up the hole’. At the end of the story together with the children they back out into ‘the sunlight of the garden’. She’s on the threshold of innocence and experience and at this moment, she chooses not to cross over. Eveline seems worldly wise.
This suggests that Hester should have considered she would damage her life and those around her before committing a sin. Meanwhile, the sunshine, fleeing from Hester allows Pearl to get the idea in her head that maybe this is how she must act. For example, when in the forest, Hester makes an effort to grab the sunshine, except “As she tempted to do so, the sunshine vanished; or, to judge the bright expression that was dancing on Pearl’s features, her mother could have fancied that that the child had absorbed it into herself, and would give it forth again, with a gleam about her path, as they should plunge into some gloomier
Hester worries about Pearl though. Townspeople believe Pearl is of the Devil and Hester believes Pearl is the physical product of her sin. 5. Hester believes, that god gave her Pearl as a source of salvation and a reason to live. Chapter 7 1.
When Curley’s wife first appears both George and Lennie notices “...the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway is cut off”. This suggests that Curley’s wife is like darkness. She is also dangerous and brings only trouble to ranch hands because when she appears their “sunshine” is cut off. Light represents hope in this novel. The fact that light/sunshine has been cut off links back to the idea that Curley’s wife will stand between their dream and future and may take away their happiness and dream just like darkness.
Definition: : an element, such as a type of incident, reference, idea, phrase, or image—which is repeated frequently in a single work of literature or throughout literature in general. Example: “The sportive sunlight—feebly sportive, at best, in the predominant pensiveness of the day and scene—withdrew itself as they came nigh, and left the spots where it had danced the drearier, because they had hoped to find them bright. ‘Mother’, said little Pearl, ‘the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now, see!
Pearl is a living representation of the scarlet letter, acting as a constant reminder of Hester's sin. Throughout the story Pearl has been in a constant interaction with nature and uses nothing but her intuitiveness to learn more about where she came from. The exquisite dresses and accepted by nature and animals, and ostracized by the other Puritan children. "Pearl was her beauty cause Pearl to be viewed as strange to the other Puritan children. As a result, she is a born outcast of the infantile world... the whole peculiarity, in short, of her position in respect to other children."
In this story Lizabeth is very rude, for example when her and her friends pick on Miss Lottie, Lizabeth doesn’t care how it makes Miss Lottie feel. When they are hiding behind the bushes throwing stones at the Marigold’s, they think it’s funny, and something “cool” to do. Quote, “we had to annoy her by whizzing a pebble into her flowers, or by yelling a dirty word, then dancing away from her rage.” (79) Next, Lizabeth is very immature in this story, for example, when Lizabeth’s parents are arguing. Lizaebeth get’s tired of hearing it. She get’s out of bed, wakes up her brother, goes over to Miss Lottie’s, and destroys all of her marigold’s, but during this she gets caught, and when Miss Lottie caught her she acted like nothing had happened, and she’d done nothing wrong.
Hawthorne allows the reader to discover how great the puritans were. For example, “Hester Prynne, therefore, did not flee. On the outskirts of town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage… In this little, lonesome dwelling, with some slender means that she possessed, and by the license of magistrates, who still kept and inquisitorial watch over her…” This just proves to the audience that Hawthorne uses his language to express his love for the puritans because Hester had to learn her lesson by being embarrassed in public by everyone and anyone, which would cause her to leave their society and move somewhere else. But instead Hester stayed and had to deal with the punishment but on top of that had to be basically what we would say “shunned” by society as a whole. She had to move away with her child, Pearl to someone’s abandoned house and live in loneliness with her child.
In King Lear’s Act I, Lear disowns and banishes his youngest daughter, Cordelia, from the kingdom because she failed to partake in Lear’s childish game of telling him how much she loves him. Lear: “Let it be so, thy truth then be thy dower!” (I.i 110). Cordelia, being a compassionate person, finds it in her heart to be present when Lear needs her most, Cordelia: “O my dear father! Restoration hang thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss repair those violent harms that my two sisters have in thy reverence made!” (IV.vii 25-29) This quotation proves what kind of person Cordelia is, in that her compassion and ability to forgive enabled her to look past her father’s unfair and unjust treatment. At the time of her father’s sickness, Cordelia chose to show compassion and forgiveness instead of retributive justice.