Pearls Life Without Shame in Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter

Pearls Life Without Shame in The Scarlet Letter uncomplete Hesters love for Authur Dimmesdale nor her need for atonement of her sins were the primary reasons why Hester remained in Boston. However, Hester principally lived out her punishment to set an example for Pearl of what she should not become. Hester Prynnes brio had been a continuous series of disappointments and shame. Because she cared for her daughter, Pearl, Hester treated her punishment more as a means of teaching Pearl a respectable modus vivendi than a means of confronting her vices. Hester experienced on three occasions of touchwood shaking blows, which approximately would only encounter once in a lifetime. Marrying Roger Chillingworth was Hester Prynnes first documented mistake. She even went as far to call it her most significant sin, despite the array she had to choose from. Not only had Hester unify Roger Chillingworth when she did not even love him, she also was partly responsible for receive so much pain o n her true love, Authur Dimmesdale. When Chillingworth derived that the Reverend Dimmesdale was Hesters partner in shattering the purity of their marriage, he made it his duty to line up revenge by torturing Dimmesdale This unhappy person had effected such a transformation by devoting himself, for seven years, to the constant analysis of a heart full of torture, and deriving his enjoyment thence, and adding fuel to those fiery tortures which he analyzed and gloated over. The scarlet letter burned on Hester Prynnes bosom. Here was other ruin, the responsibility of which came partly home to her. (116) Hester could not escape her evil economise nor her liability in augmenting Authurs anguish. Secondly, Hesters adultery was the most prominent sin in the eyes of ... ...er. Hester proved, like she had before, that she was fallible. She momentarily lost sight of Pearls lesson. However, Reverend Dimmesdale was a martyr, losing his life at the time when Hesters desires for a new settin g were at their peak and thus bringing back her primitive motive. The conclusion in Chapter Twenty-four proved that Hesters decision was the best for Pearl, which was all she had wanted. Pearl was not only alive, but married, and happy, and mindful of her mother (177). Pearl was successful after(prenominal) her outcast childhood, free from the mistakes Hester had made and able to be true to everyone virtually her. Pearl was a better person because her mother was brave replete to keep them there in the fire and teach her daughter how to take place a life without shame. Works CitedHawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1998.