The Scarlet Letter: Section 2 Blog 2

In my continuation of reading section two of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, more insight into Hester Prynne's child has been revealed. I noticed the literary technique of characterization being used in chapter six to describe Pearl in her growing and maturity from the infant that she was in the intro of the book to thus far. Pearl, described as being a lively image of sparkling radiance and childish playfulness is also portrayed as possessing passion and imagination. Pearl, named for her rarity and preciousness like a pearl has "the wild-flower prettiness of a peasant-baby, and the pomp, in little, of an infant princess. Throughout all, however, there was a trait of passion, a certain depth of hue, which she never lost; and if, in any of her changes, she had grown fainter or paler, she would have ceased to be herself,"(Hawthorne,68). By understanding features of Pearl and insight into her personality, connections and links can be made between her and similar attributes of Hester, and the fate and potential of Pearl being the daughter of Hester so strongly out casted from society. I feel Pearl will either rebel from her mother's control, seeing her mother's flaw and siding with society to mock and ridicule Hester, or be unable to be her own person, thus  being forever be marked by her mother's sin.