The Rhetorical Strategies of the Scarlett Letter

Grayce Byrnes Mr. Smith AP face 11-Period A 24 September 2012 The Passion of osseous tissue In the invigorated The Scarlet earn, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the hardships of a young girl named Hester forced to live with the letter A pinned to her chest in penitence for her sins in a hard-and-fast Puritan town in the 1800s. The illegitimate daughter of Hester carries the same traits and qualities as Hester, making drop curtain a double of Hester. Hawthorne defines Pearl with his use of wind diction, whimsical tone, and his selection of detail.Pearls character functions primarily as a symbolic character that stands for her mother and the scarlet letter. Pearl becomes the Scarlet Letter brought to life. She is dressed in elaborate, scarlet garb as if to be a real-life scarlet letter. The narrator explains her as the scarlet letter in a nonher(prenominal) form the scarlet letter endowed with life (Hawthorne 57). When Hester tries to discard the letter, she gets in a panic mode, as if Hester is actually discarding her. The originator neer actually states the purpose of Pearl being the scarlet letter, but instead uses generalisation ideas and prodigious vocabulary.Many people in the Puritan community believe that since Hester would non reveal the childs father, that he must be the pose himself. Pearl has an uncanny perception of what goes on around her and constantly is desire for the true statement. The connection of Pearl to the letter and her constant obsession with finding truth leads us to believe that the letter means truth. Her excessively perceptive cognition is almost supernatural. Hawthornes tone is one of a whimsical, mischievous, and capricious descriptions. Pearls master(prenominal) purpose seems to be to uncover the truth for the main characters.Once she completes her goal, A spell was broken. The great scene of grief, in which the wild sister bore a party, had developed all her sympathies and as her tears pull down upon her fathers che ek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor forever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it. Towards her mother, too, Pearls errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled(233). Her capricious emotions and the mercurial opinions of the author make it hard for the reader to decipher if the child is the condemnable embodiment of Hesters sin or just the naivety and specialness of a child.Overall, there are some striking similarities between Hester and Pearl. til now during Hesters pregnancy, she could feel Pearls wild, desperate, defiant mood, the flightiness of her temper, and nonetheless some of the very cloud-shapes of gloom and heartsickness that had brooded in her heart (50). These emotions fit with Hester. Her wild, desperate and defiant mood is emulated through her betrayal of the puritans through her sin. Her temper, gloom, and despondency is felt from Hester because of her forced isolation from the rest of the town and marke d as an outcast. Pearl is described as beautiful, imaginative, graceful, and impulsive.These traits are also seen in Hester. Pearl is a character of mystery and has an almost supernatural essence to her. The author talks about her like she is more than human although we never receive if she heaven-sent or from the devil because the author plays both sides of the argument. Pearl is a symbol of the passion that is within every human heart, and as the bill ends with her finding great success in Europe, she shows us that society should never define you. I Pledge My Honor That I Have not Received Aid on this Paper _____________________________________________