(Hawthorne, Pg. 67)
When little Pearl uttered these
words, it is revealed to the reader that Pearl does not believe in God. She
believes that she was plucked off of a rosebush instead of God sending her to
Hester. These atheistic ideals were affirmed when mother and daughter were
playing in their home. Hester jokingly told Pearl that she did not belong to
her and that the Heavenly Father had sent her. Pearl then adamantly refuses to
believe that she has a Heavenly Father. This quote reveals to the reader
another part of Pearl’s personality. It shows how Pearl suspects that she was
born into sin and that committing a sin was against God’s laws. Therefore,
Pearl believes that if there was a God, she would not have been born into shame.
This quote is important because it is going against what the Puritan culture
believed at the time. They only believed in God’s laws and that no one dared to
go against them. For a three year old Pearl to say this, it shows how
courageous and radical her ideas were for the time. This quote brings new revolutionary
ideas that maybe there was no God and that Hester and Pearl were out casted for
no good reason and if there was a God, he would not have brutally punished his
followers.
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