Most novels usually have a main symbol, which teaches a character, or the reader, a very important lesson or moral. This is true in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter, where Hester Prynne’s daughter Pearl serves as the most extensive living symbol in the entire novel. She is much more of a symbol than an actual character. Pearl symbolizes Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale’s concealed love affair and plays a key character in The Scarlet Letter as well. Little Pearl, the so-called “elf child,” is the daughter and result of the minister Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne’s unthinkable sin of adultery. She is an imaginative, intelligent little girl who is full of life and shows a “rich and luxuriant beauty; a beauty that shone with deep and vivid tints.” She is a living, breathing child who can see and talk. The only real c....

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