Pearls Life Without Shame in Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter

Pearls Life Without Shame in The Scarlet Letter neither Hesters love for Authur Dimmesdale nor her need for atonement of her sins were the primary reasons why Hester remained in Boston. However, Hester generally lived out her punishment to set an example for Pearl of what she should non become. Hester Prynnes flavour 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 lifestyle than a means of confronting her vices. Hester experienced on three occasions of sum total shaking blows, which roughly 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 wed Roger Chillingworth when she did not even love him, she also was partly responsible for realize so much pain on her true lo ve, Authur Dimmesdale. When Chillingworth derived that the Reverend Dimmesdale was Hesters spouse in shattering the purity of their marriage, he made it his duty to rule revenge by torturing Dimmesdale This unhappy person had effected such(prenominal) 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 maintain 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 setting 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 aft(prenominal) her outcast childhood, free from the mistakes Hester had made and able to be true to everyone approximately her. Pearl was a better person because her mother was brave sufficiency to keep them there in the fire and teach her daughter how to elapse a life without shame. Works CitedHawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1998.