In other words Hester expected Pearl to be the one that suffered, for being the result of sin rather than a blessing from that sin. She is already an outcast of the puritan religion. Pearl is already teased. All Hester wants is pearl to be normal.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Scarlet Letter Dialect Journal, 12
"Day after day, she looked fearfully into the child's expanding nature; ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity, that should correspond with the guiltiness to which she owed her being"
In other words Hester expected Pearl to be the one that suffered, for being the result of sin rather than a blessing from that sin. She is already an outcast of the puritan religion. Pearl is already teased. All Hester wants is pearl to be normal.
In other words Hester expected Pearl to be the one that suffered, for being the result of sin rather than a blessing from that sin. She is already an outcast of the puritan religion. Pearl is already teased. All Hester wants is pearl to be normal.
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Yes, but it is obvious that Pearl will never be normal.
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