Part one of term paper
In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pearl serves as the “apple of Eden”. She is plucked from the hands of God in heaven and sent to the mortal world as a baby “to make out its [the scarlet letter’s] hidden import” (155), causing Prynne and Dimmesdale to face their consequences. Pearl functions in the st ...

Part two of term paper
... mistake. Pearl is the rose bush that is located outside of the prison door. Although, she brings happiness to Prynne, Pearl is covered with “thorns”. When Mr. Wilson asks Pearl the question of who made her, Pearl responds “that she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses, that grew by the prison-door” (95). She is a good child, an “infant…worthy to have been brought forth in Eden; worthy to have been left there, to ...