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Pearl as The Scarlet Letter   The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel that shows the Puritanical way of life. Society does not accept the fact that Hester has committed the sin of adultery so they cast her out by qualification her wear a violent letter A across her chest. Pearl is the product of Hesters sin, the scarlet letter is the product of society. This idea shows that Pearl is the scarlet letter and the scarlet letter is Pearl. There argon many ways in which Pearl is shown to be as the scarlet letter because she is considered to be a part of nature, she is the somatogenic connection between Dimmesdale and Hester, and Pearl is the reason that makes Dimmesdale and Hester to finally accept their sin and make their confession in front of society and the people within society. The reasons are listed in this manner because in the first one nature is a stronger force that human force, then comes her connection between Dimmesdale and Hester because she is the raw( a) connection which is a link from the first one to the second and also her being the reason Dimmesdale and Hester accepting the sin is last because there is a stronger connection between the tiddler and the parents here which is linked from the previous reason.   Pearl is a product of a natural act done by two human beings. This is the act of sex. that society considers it to be bad because there was no social contract between the parents to have that baby. But still its natural so it makes Pearl natural and cast out by society. Even her mother notices that it is society that seems to make Pearl the evil girl she is, She knew that her deed had been evil she could have no faith, therefore, that its chair would be for good. Day after day she looked fearfully into the childs expanding nature ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity, that could restore to the guiltiness to which she owed her being.( The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 86) present what is dep icted is that Pearls evil is from her mothers guiltiness. So if Hester has none of that guilt that came from society then she would naturally be a good girl. Also, Pearl seems to be affiliated to nature because there is some contact where Pearl has some kind of communication with Pearl.