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Pearl - A Product Of Nature (T

The idea illustrated by the rosebush can therefore be applied to the specific character of Pearl. Because Pearl was expelled from Puritan society Nature sympathizes with her. Nature's sympathy and partiality with Pearl can be seen with the sunshine in the forest. Pearl attempts to "catch" the sunshine and according to Hawthorn "Pearl . . . did actually catch the sunshine . . . The light lingered about the lonely child, as if glad of such a playmate . . ."(146). Hawthorn describes another sign of acceptance as the "great black forest . . . became the playmate of the lonely infant"(163). Hawthorne eventually declares that "The truth seems to be . . . that the mother-forest, and these wild ...

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of something on [Hester's] bosom" (146), the Scarlet Letter, which represents Hester's acceptance of Puritan law and way of life. Therefore her sin doesn't invite the sympathy of Nature. This is why when she throws the letter on the ground "forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest . . ."(162). Only then did Nature show its acceptance by flooding the forest with sunshine.

The sympathy that Nature extends to Pearl is what makes her so different. Pearl has two personalities, one being that which belongs to Puritan life, the other being that of the wild "elf-child" of the forest. For her entire life she has been ostracized from Puritan society so she has no choice but to accept her "kindred
wildness" that Nature accepts in her. This is the key to why Pearl is such an odd child and why she acts so differently because she knows not the ways of man and Puritan society. She was born an "outcast of the infantile world. An imp of evil, emblem and product of ...

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