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Name : Gond Asmita k
Roll no : 1 st
Class : M.A. Sem -3
Year : 2015
Paper no : 10 , The American Literatre
Anrollment No : 14101017
E-mail-Id : [email protected]
Topic: Pearl as a symbol of blessing as well
as punishment for Hester.
Submitted to : M.K.B.U Bhavnagar University
Department of English
Index1. Introduction of Nathaniel Hawthorn
2. What is symbolism
3. Characters are as symbolism
4. Hester as a victim of
5. Description of Pearl
6. What do you name to Pearl?
7. Pearl as a Witch Girl
8. Pearl as biggest responsibility
9. Pearl as wild nature
10. Pearl’s questions
11. Pearl as a Blessing and punishment both for Hester
Introduction of Nathaniel Hawthorn
• Nathaniel Hawthorn was born on July ,4 , 1804
• His father John Hawthorn is a captain and mother Elizabeth
• The scarlet letter is the masterpiece work in English literature
What is symbolism?
• “ Symbolism nothing but a deeper meaning”
• When a person writes poetry they are often trying to paint a picture or draw a scene in vivid detail of our mind.
• Symbolism is literary visual art.
• It can be moral, religious or philosophical
• Characters as symbolism
Hester Symbol of Unjust humiliation
Chilling worth Symbol of spur to the quest for revenge
Dimmesdale Piercing reminder of his own guilt
Pearl Bright and mysterious curiosity
Hester is a victim of
• At the beginning of the novel Hester has been living in Boston for two years and has been found guilt for bearing a girl child Pearl , which becomes her biggest sin in her life.
• Dimmesdale
• Chillingworth
• Own youth
• Bad fate
Description of Pearl
• Pearl appeared first as an infant, at the age of three and finally at the age of seven.
• The fullest description of her comes at the age of three.
• Pearl is the product of Hester's sin, the scarlet letter is the product of society.
• This idea shows that Pearl’s the scarlet letter and the scarlet letter is Pearl.
• “ Pearl is appear as rich and luxuriant beauty, a beauty that shone with deep and vivid tints, a bright complex, eyes possessing intensity both of depth and glow , and hair already of deep , glossy brown which in after years would be nearly akin to black”
Pearl as a witch girl
After the birth of pearl she obviously become the illicit of love affair between
Hester and Dimmesdale
• Pearl as a new hope for Hester
• Biggest companion as well as shame also
Pearl as a biggest responsibility
No name of father
No societyNo family
• Pearl has inherited Hester's all moodiness, passion and defiance.
• Hester worrying about Pearl’s future
• Pearl develops a personality, she becomes symbolic of the kind of passion that accompanied Hester’s sin.
Pearl as a wild nature
• She is clothed in nature and reflected in the nature of the woods where the devil lives, and imps are associated with the devil. she is beautiful and serene but the next minute she is causing her mother’s pain to
• Nature become gloomy, dark, and somber.
Pearl as a blessing nature
Pearl’s questions
• As Pearl grows older, her actions and her questions are matters of increasing torment to Hester.
• She often ask question on ‘A’ the scarlet letter
• Pearl as fault of bade fate for Hester
Pearl as blessing for Hester
• Pearl becomes blessing for Hester because Pearl has given a way of living the life for Hester as treasure.
• She become a great companion of her mother
The puritan society
• Society believes that she is demon child of off-spring
Pearl as punishment and blessing both
• In Hester’s life problems starts with birth of Pearl
• She reminds Hester her own crime and exile.
• Pearl become living appearance of Hester’s sin
“ endowed with a million fold the
power of retribution for
my sin”
• Pearl a new world for Hester
Conclusion
“ An angel will always come in every bodies life for the help”
So We give Pearl name A for Angel
Thus we can say that Pearl is punishment and blessing both for Hester,
