The document discusses the novel 'The Scarlet Letter,' focusing on its three main characters: Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth, and the central theme of adultery within the Puritan context. It emphasizes Hester's punishment and her daughter Pearl's dynamic role as a moral guardian, as well as the transformation of the letter 'A' from a symbol of sin to one of angelic representation. Additionally, it explores Pearl's significance and the impact of her parents' actions on their lives.

1. Prepared By: Shabana Khalani
Roll No:28
Sem-III
Paper No:10
Unit No2:
Department Of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsihji University,
Bhavnagar
PEARL: A LIVING ‘A’ IN
THE SCARLET LETTER

2. There are three leading characters in the
novel.
These characters are:
1. Hester Prynne
2. Arthur Dimmesdale
3. Roger Chillingworth
The theme of the novel belongs to the Puritan
Age.
Adultery is the theme of the novel.
CHARACTERS AND THEME

3. Hester‘s adultery with the priest Dimmesedale
Hester’s punishment in front of society in
scaffold scene she for her sin
Hester’s daughter Pearl was in her hand
Dimmesale’s silence in spite of equally
responsible for the sin
Cillingworth, Hester’s husband gesture for
demanding silence
CHARACTERS AND THEMES CONTI..

4.  Hester had to wear Red ‘A’ on her
bosom which stands for Adulteress
 She was forced to live isolated
life with Pearl
 Hester changed the meaning of
“A”
MEANING OF ‘A’
Adultery Angel

5.  Illegitimate Daughter of
Hester
 She asks difficult
questions to her mother
 She is the only person
who was with the Hester
during her tough time
 Pearl’s important role
more as a dynamic force
of moral guardian than a
static symbol of sin in the
plot
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6. She’s the only link language between her
mother Hester and father Dimmesedale
Pearl had to live with her mother in the community
Pearl and Hester lived in the forest in isolation as
a punishment.
She refuse Dimmesedale to kiss on her forehead
saying that why in private? The negligence in
public is quite odd matter for her.
Her suffering and pain is the result of her parents’
sin
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7.  Hawthorne described Pearl as
“The child could not be made amenable to rules. In giving her
existence, a great law had been broken; and the result was a
being whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but
all in disorder…The mother‘s impassioned state had been the
medium through which were transmitted to the unborn infant
the rays of its moral life: and, however white and clear
originally, they had taken the deep stains of crimson and gold,
the fiery luster, the black shadow, and the untempered light of
the intervening substance.”
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8.  Hawthorn put a direct real satire on Society by
projecting a Daughter becomes a curse / a burden
for her mother Hester’s life
 Hester through out her life is the moral being just as
pure as Pearl.
 Pearl is a child out of wedlock yet she shares the
same life as pure as her mother the way as the Letter
‘A’ for Adultery converts into the Angel for Hester.
 Thus, we can says the Pearl is the living Letter ‘A’ in
the Scarlet letter
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