Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a novel about the guilt of sin in a Puritanical society and how sometimes it is better to face your mistakes and admit them than to hide them and suffer inside. The result of sin can often produce something beautiful. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale are the sinners in this book. They commit adultery and bring a child into the world. That child is Pearl. Pearl is a beautiful …
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…that Pearl grew up to be a beautiful woman in Europe with a supposed great life makes things better. It throws it back in the Puritans face and shows them that there's more to life than living by the rules. The only way to find that out, though, is to be thrown away from those rules and forced to live how you want, which is how Pearl lived her life every day, untainted and uncontrolled