Pearl is a good character and loves Hester. Pearl does not care if Hester has the Scarlet A because she does not judge Hester. In the Scarlet Letter Pearl is shown as a good character by being described as an angel, loving Hester, and not judging Hester by her letter.
Pearl is described as good in many ways including being an angel. Pearl is described as an angel throughout the whole book including this passage, " In this child there were many children, comprehending the full scope between the wild-flower prettiness of a peasant-baby, and the pomp, in little, of an infant princess." (Hawthorne 62). She has a very complex thought about Hester even though she is only 7. Pearl also knows that Dimmesdale is her father even though nobody tells her.
Pearl loves Hester in the Scarlet Letter even though not many other people like Hester. The main reason that Pearl loves Hester is because Hester is Pearl's mother. Pearl also loves Hester because she defended Pearl when she still was a little baby and held Pearl in Hester's arms. Another reason that Pearl loves Hester is told in this quote from the book, " All this enmity and passion had Pearl inherited, by inalienable right, out of Hester's heart." (Hawthorne 65). Pearl loves Hester in many ways including the Scarlet A. Pearl does not think that the Scarlet A is a bad thing on Hester but a good thing. Pearl also thinks about many things good about Hester including being born good, and free from sin. Pearl also loves Hester in this line of the book, " And then what a happiness would it have been, could HesterPrynne have heard her clear, bird-like voice mingling with the uproar of other childish voices, and have distinguished and unraveled her own darling's tones, amid all the entangled outcry of a group of sportive children!" (Hawthorne 64).
Even though the Scarlet A does not have a lot of meaning about Pearl it still describes how Pearl is good. Pearl thinks of the Scarlet A in many ways other than evil. Pearl does not judge Hester about the Scarlet A like the towns people who think the Scarlet A is the worst thing ever. Pearl also does not think the Scarlet A is bad but thinks it is Hester's identity. This passage describes how Pearl is the only person who loves the Scarlet A, "They mother is yonder woman with the scarlet letter, said the seaman. Wilt thou carry her a message from me? If the message pleases me I will, answered Pearl." (Hawthorne 168). Pearl also loves the Scarlet A very much and will not go back to Hester without the Scarlet A. This quote tells how Pearl loves the A, " Pearl took some eel-grass, and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom, the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother's chest." (Hawthorne 122).
Pearl was a good character in the Scarlet Letter. Pearl did everything a regular loving child does with her mother and she does not think of her mother as a bad person. Pearl was described as evil in the Scarlet Letter but she was never described in depth about how she could have been a demon child.
Pearl was more of an angel than anything else, with angel like qualities. After all that was said, it should be convincing that Pearl was a good character and not a demon child or a bad character.
