How can you describe Pearl in "The Scarlet Letter" in deeper desription?

Answer 1

"A wild, fey child who is associated throughout the work with nature and natural, Pearl is Hester's illegitimate child by the minister Arthur Dimmesdale."

Answer 2

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Pearl

Hester’s daughter, Pearl, functions primarily as a symbol. She is quite young during most of the events of this novel—when Dimmesdale dies she is only seven years old—and her real importance lies in her ability to provoke the adult characters in the book. She asks them pointed questions and draws their attention, and the reader’s, to the denied or overlooked truths of the adult world. In general, children in The Scarlet Letter are portrayed as more perceptive and more honest than adults, and Pearl is the most perceptive of them all. More…….

http://www.freebooknotes.com/page.php?link=http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/scarlet/&book=366


I have found 11 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer.

http://www.schoolbytes.com/summary.php?id=433

http://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=366

http://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=The+Scarlet+Letter+

SYMBOLISM / MOTIFS / IMAGERY / SYMBOLS

The Scarlet Letter abounds with symbolism, which Hawthorne uses to unify the novel and add a deeper level of meaning to the story.

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmScarletLetter49.asp

http://www.literatureclassics.com/essays/695/

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hawthorn.htm

The Scarlet Letter

http://www.freeessays.cc/db/10/bwa311.shtml

TEACHERS GUIDE.

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/reading/activity/4056.html

Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

Answer 3

she is the embodiment of Hester's sin and of hidden secrets and as such, her nature seems to echo that of the circumstances surrounding her conception, birth, and childhood

Answer 4

She is wise beyond her years and is a little mischievious.