The Rhetorical Strategies of the Scarlett Letter

Grayce Byrnes Mr. Smith AP English 11-Period A 24 September 2012 The wrath of gather In the novel The sanguine Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the hardships of a young girl named Hester coerce to live with the earn A pinned to her chest in penitence for her sins in a strict prude town in the 1800s. The illegitimate daughter of Hester carries the same traits and qualities as Hester, making driblet a retroflex of Hester. Hawthorne congeals drib with his use of abridgment diction, queer tone, and his selection of detail.Pearls levelt functions in the beginning as a symbolic character that stands for her mother and the red letter. Pearl becomes the ruby-red Letter brought to manners. She is dressed in elaborate, rubicund garb as if to be a real-life scarlet letter. The narrator explains her as the scarlet letter in another strain the scarlet letter endowed with life (Hawthorne 57). When Hester tries to discard the letter, she gets in a consternation mode, as if H ester is actu bothy discarding her. The author never really states the purpose of Pearl world the scarlet letter, besides instead uses abstract ideas and prodigious vocabulary.Many people in the Puritan community believe that since Hester would not dampen the childs father, that he mustiness be the devil himself. Pearl has an uncanny perception of what goes on around her and continuously is seeking for the equity. The connection of Pearl to the letter and her constant obsession with finding law leads us to believe that the letter subject matter truth. Her excessively perceptive knowledge is around supernatural. Hawthornes tone is one of a whimsical, mischievous, and capricious descriptions. Pearls primary(prenominal) purpose seems to be to uncover the truth for the main characters.Once she completes her goal, A spell was broken. The bully scene of grief, in which the wild baby bore a party, had developed all her sympathies and as her tears fell upon her fathers cheek, th ey were the pact that she would grow up amid human happiness 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 pain was all fulfilled(233). Her capricious emotions and the fickle opinions of the author make it hard for the reader to decipher if the child is the evil flesh of Hesters sin or vindicatory the naivety and curiosity of a child.Overall, there are some striking similarities in the midst of Hester and Pearl. Even during Hesters pregnancy, she could feel Pearls wild, desperate, defiant mood, the flightiness of her temper, and even some of the very cloud-shapes of gloom and despondence that had brooded in her heart (50). These emotions correlate with Hester. Her wild, desperate and defiant mood is emulated through her treachery of the puritans through her sin. Her temper, gloom, and despondency is felt from Hester because of her labored isolation from the rest of the town and marked a s 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 to the highest degree supernatural essence to her. The author negotiation about her like she is more than human although we never know 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 indoors every human heart, and as the bosh 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 _____________________________________________