While Hester assures her that this admission will happen in the future, Dimmesdale kisses Pearl's forehead in an attempt to mollify her. Pearl immediately goes to the brook and washes off the kiss. There she remains apart from the adults, and the brook babbles cheerlessly on.
Pearl is the one who moves the action in this chapter, and her response to Dimmesdale and Hester together does not foreshadow a happy ending. In fact, more than ever, Pearl is a symbol of the passionate act of her parents. She is a constant reminder of Hester's sin and, if Hester tries momentarily to forget the past, Pearl certainly disapproves.
Pearl, throughout the novel, has shown herself to be unamenable to human rules and laws and seems to lack human sympathy. Pearl, interpreted on one level, acts like a child who has suddenly realized that her world may be changing. On another level, Pearl is one with nature in the wilderness. He refuses to acknowledge her in public. First off, it is in a way keeping her pureness and innocence.
Also, it represents her feelings toward Dimmesdale and the fact that he will be with her mother. Pearl does not recognize her mother because Hester has removed the scarlet letter and put her hair down. Having resolved to leave America and start a new life in Europe with Dimmesdale, Hester has finally felt confident enough to rid herself of the public symbol of her shame.
Summary: Chapter The Child at the Brook-Side Hester has to pin the letter back on and effect a transformation back into her old, sad self before Pearl will cross the creek.
Pearl immediately goes to the brook and washes off the kiss. There she remains apart from the adults, and the brook babbles cheerlessly on. How does Pearl become wealthy? Dimmesdale, leaving the church after his sermon, sees Hester and Pearl standing before the town scaffold. He impulsively mounts the scaffold with his lover and his daughter, and confesses publicly, exposing a scarlet letter seared into the flesh of his chest.
He falls dead, as Pearl kisses him. Why does Pearl not seem to be a human child? Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Psychological disciplines What does the Pearl foreshadow? Psychological disciplines. After Arthur Dimmesdale dies, Pearl's wildness eases, and she eventually marries.
This is a huge moment for Pearl in The Scarlet Letter. She has wanted Arthur to stand with them out in the open on the platform for nearly her entire life, and the answer was always no. On this day he does so, in effect claiming both Pearl and her mother in front of the world.
She may or may not understand all the implications and ramifications of this request, or even the complete significance of it. What she does know is that he has finally done what he should have, and it is a kind of epiphany for her.
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