Character analysis
Pearl Prynne
Pearl Prynne is the daughter of the antagonist. She is also the foil character because she tends to provoke the mother Hester Prynne and allows her to share her true thoughts with the reader. It is said that pearl is no human in the story and it is said because religion is a great part of the novel and when the priest asked her who had made her she replied. "she had not been made at but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses that grew at the prison door." The priest had asumed that she would have mentioned the story involving the stork because that is the explanation many motherrs give their children when they ask where they came from. That quote does not show any signs of being inhuman to me it just displays that she has a wide imagination and can express her feelings openly. Pearl is also very protective of her and her mother. She displays this when her and her mother were walking in the village and kids on the street were planning to throw rotten fruit at them. As an instinct pearl automatically bent down and picked up pebbles in defense and began to pound them with the pebbles. This shows that she is also strong willed like her mother because there were way more of them than there were of her so it goes to show that she can fight when she needs to. Pearl is very bubbly and upbeat she is always skipping her way down the village. She is very provoking because she learned how to find peoples weaknesses such as her mothers and manipulate them. For example she pointed her finger at the scarlet letter on her moms chest and saw the ping of pain in her moms eyes and just continued to touch it and smile. This shows that she does not have much empathy for others because the closest person to her being her mother was hurt yet she felt no remorse or consideration. She is very clingy when she is around other people besides her mother. I think this is because she realizes that they are not accepted in community as they should be and no she is different. I believe she has a psychic ability. An example of this would be when she was with her mother and they were about to visit the minister because he was very ill and he was with the doctor she had said "Come away, or yonder old black man will catch you. he hath got hold of the minister already..." I think this shows that she has a psychic ability because she has not once spoken to this man yet it appears as if she knew many things about him. In my opinion I think pearl sturs up the story so much because she is not someone that would have been pictured to be apart of that time.
