Part one of term paper
In the novel, The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, character is created through a variety of techniques. Hawthorne create characterizes Pearl, Hester Prynne’s daughter, through the use of narration and description to show how Pearl acts in the society in which she lives in. Hawthorne also uses Pearl’s name as a symbol of he ...

Part two of term paper
... Hawthorne shows how Pearl looks physically and how she acts in the Puritan society. “We have hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion “ (62). Hawthorne calls Pearl a “creature” which shows that she immediately has a label of an outcast or something other than human. Hawthorne’s use of the word “creature” implies that Pearl s ...