Demonic Child In Hawthorne’s novel the Scarlet Letter the character Pearl is the product of sin. Everyone in town thought of pearl as abnormal, unnatural, a demon child, and a symbol of adultery committed by her mother Hester Prynne and Father Dimmsdale (which people did not know of yet). This is Pearl and she is the outcast child. Pearl is never going to be able to be seen as normal child, since birth she …showed first 75 words of 273 total…

…showed last 75 words of 273 total…her mother. For example when the government tried taking little Pearl from Hester one reason she was able to stay because every time Hester looked at her she was reminded of her sin. Pearl also isn’t as religious or as serious about religion as other puritans in the colony. An example of this from first the first chapter when Hester said that the heavenly father sent us pearl says she has no heavenly father.