The_Scarlet_Letter

The Scarlet Letter The scarlet letter, a book about a lady named Hester Prynne who lived in the New World, in Puritan Boston. She committed adultery, and gave birth to a child, which was named Pearl. Pearl’s father were not revealed to the public at the time when she was released from prison because Hester decided not to do so, she did not want her child to have an Earthly father but instead she wanted Pearl to have an heavenly father. Hester wanted pearl to be brought up in the normal way of the time of Puritanism. At this time they used strictness and used the rod frequently, but even though Hester at first tried to do her best at this. She quickly realised that Pearl was not going to adapt to her methods so she could not set any restrictions for her. Instead Pearl developed to be a wild child, to her mother and the rest of the Puritan community she seemed to be a little elf and they sometimes doubted that she was human, “ Hester was constrained to rush towards the child,- to pursue the little! elf in the flight which she invariably began,- to snatch her to her bosom, pearl, hester, wild, child, time, little, show, mother, herself, father, now, feelings, elf, described, about, way, wanted, towards, though, sea, scarlet, savage, same, relieved, puritan, public, named, letter, instead, imp, gave, foam, evil, emotionless, community