Scarlet Letter 4 =

Part I of Essay
In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pearl serves as the “apple of Eden”. She is plucked from the hands of God in heaven and sent to the mortal world as a baby “to make out its [the scarlet letter’s] hidden import” (155), causing Prynn ....

Part II of Essay
.... a good child, an “infant…worthy to have been brought forth in Eden; worthy to have been left there, to be the plaything of the angels” (75), but she is a “born outcast of the infantile world…an imp of evil, emblem and product of sin” (79). Her physical features did not show she is different: she has perfect arms and legs and has a native grace with innocent beauty. She is magnificent when she is displayed in her exquisite robes as her natural beauty shown through such that there was a circle of radiance arou ....