The Scarlet Letter: Pearl - The Living Symbol
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Pearl. A child born of sin. Conceived by lust. Created by
impurity.
As the result of her parents fall from grace, she represents the
sinfulness of their act, and is a continual tool for the recollection of
their dubious deed. Sent, was she, from the Almighty God as a gift, and a
burden of the ....
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.... child of its
father's guilt and its mother's shame hath come from the hand of God, to
work in many ways upon her heart, who pleads so earnestly, and with such
bitterness of spirit, the right to keep her. It was meant, doubtless, as
the mother herself hath told us, for a retribution too; a torture to be
felt at many an unthought-of moment; a pang, a sting, an ever-recurring
agony, in the midst of a troubled joy! Hath she not expressed this thought
with the garb of the poor child, so forci ....
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