Pearl — Hester's Messenger of Anguish

DOI

10.2991/icassee-19.2019.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Scarlet Letter; Pearl; Hester; Paradoxical character

Abstract

The Scarlet Letter keynotes the book, as the mature embodiment of Hawthorne's literary arts and thoughts, has received a remarkable amount of attention in the literary field. Many scholars have tried to approach this book from different perspectives, mostly concentrating on its main protagonist Hester and the priest. Pearl is the daughter of Hester and also perceived as the remainder of her sin of adultery often neglected by most researchers. This article tries to analyze the paradoxical child-Pearl and attempts to reveal how Pearl functions as the anguish messenger of Hester towards the suffocated outside world.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Lifang Chen
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DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Pearl — Hester's Messenger of Anguish
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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