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Essay Archive - Analysis of Pearl in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Analysis of Pearl in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
One of the most significant writers of the romantic period in American
literature was Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne wrote stories that opposed
the ideas of Transcendentalism. Since he had ancestors of Puritan belief,
Hawthorne wrote many stories about Puritan New England. His most famous
story is the Scarlet Letter. This novel tells of the punishment of a woman,
Hester Prynne, who committed adultery and gave birth to Pearl. A minister
of Boston, Arthur Dimmesdale, had an affair with Hester while believing
that her husband, Roger Chilli....
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