“Even though everyone thinks Pearl is a great gift and a sweet, cute, and caring little girl, don’t be fooled by her, Hester’s daughter is not a good girl. When thinking about her father, she believes she doesn’t have one and her religious thoughts given that the times were wrong, back then the Puritans were very religious and did not let pass a sin by like if it was nothing, being a sinner was very bad for them and they will shame you, exclude you and make you feel bad about what you did, so this was not a time to be saying that she has no God and doesn’t come from the heavenly father. Not only that but also her mother thinks she is out of control. She is a daughter of sin and was sent from the pits of Hell.”
Her whole life belongs to hope, she says that she has no heavenly father, she comes from hope. Her mother Hester is afraid of her she loves her because she is her daughter but she also doesn’t like her, Hester thinks she is annoying and her favorite time is when Pearl is asleep:” After putting her finger in her mouth, with many ungracious refusals to answer good Mr. Wilson’s question, the child finally announced that she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses, that grew by the prison-door.”(Hawthorne 100). This goes to show us how she is not a human child, if one were to ask the same question to any other child they would have answered that the heavenly father made them if that is what they had been taught, but Pearl was not made by the having father she was made by Satan (devil).
Pearl is not a human child and is not a normal kid she has a lot of problems and causes a lot of trouble. She was not sent from the Heavenly Father because she has no heavenly father, as the narrator states:’’But, she said it with a hesitation that did not escape the acuteness of the child. Whether moved only by her ordinary freakishness or because an evil spirit prompted her, she put up her small forefinger and touched the scarlet letter. “He did not send me!” cried she, positively. “I have no Heavenly Father!”’’(Hawthorne 88). Here Pearl tells us that she does not have a heavenly father which means the one that sent her is satan (devil). This is another way to see that pearl is not a good child; she is a child of evil, a child of sin.
Pearl is an uncontrollable demon child who is filled with bitterness, hatred, and aggressiveness which she uses against the Puritan kids, and has no hesitation to do so: “when Pearl saw, and gazed intently, but never sought to make an acquaintance. If spoken to, she would not speak again. If the children gathered about her, as they sometimes did, Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them, with shrill, incoherent exclamations that made her mother tremble’’ (Hawthorne 84). Here Pearl is staring at the Puritan kids while she collects stones with one objective: to throw them at the puritan kids, you can see how evil she is a rock to the head can kill someone; the aggressiveness in her and the anger in pearl at such a young age shows how she is not human. Pearl has no control over her emotions; she will burst with rage and hatred, the pearl is the most intolerant brood in the world, she also let her emotions take the wheel and forgot to think before acting.
Hester could not handle Pearl anymore, Hester was exhausted and could not take it as too much work, she was frustrated at Pearl, but she finally found comfort when Pearl was sleeping and quiet, Hester felt peace for some time, until Pearl woke up. “Her only real comfort was when the child lay in the placidity of sleep. Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness; until perhaps with that perverse expression glimmering from beneath her opening lids-little Pearl awoke!” As the narrator shows Hester finds comfort when Pearl is unconscious because she is a little rascal that likes to cause trouble and torment her mother, she sucks out her energy and strains her mental health.
In conclusion, even when the readers think the child is a gift, actually it isn’t, because she is filled with anger and hatred. Pearl declaring she was “plucked” by the rose bush, her mother’s disability to watch over her, and being sent to the world because of sin makes her evil. At such a young age, people should be filled with happiness and innocent thoughts, but Pearl is different because Satan sent her to Earth.
