The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel that shows the Puritanical way of life. Hawthorne, a critically acclaimed American writer of the 19th century, was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. The novelist's book, The Scarlet Letter, is by all accounts considered one of the all time great literary classics. Hawthorne uses representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. Throughout his writing it is …showed first 75 words of 962 total…

…showed last 75 words of 962 total…for redemption and to live up to what she has done, Pearl is used to continually question Hester about the scarlet letter "A". With the acceptance of sin by both Hester and Dimmesdale, Pearl has now become a human and can completely accept her mother and father and what they have done. Pearl was much more then the daughter of a sin breaking mother, but instead she was the source of survival for Hester Prynne.