Pearl - A Product of Nature (The Scarlet Letter)

Pearl: A product of Nature Pearl is one of the most interesting and mysterious characters of the novel The Scarlet Letter. One tends to wonder why Pearl is the way she is. Why does she act so strangely and so differently than all the other characters? She acts this way because of a relationship she has with the force of Nature, which Hawthorne personifies as sympathetic towards sins against the puritan way of life. Because …

…of Nature. Through this situation Nature helps Pearl to look into herself and allow the "kindred wildness" in her to dominate her actions. She is compared to a "creature that had nothing in common with a bygone and buried generation, nor owned herself akin to it." Because of this little girl's banishment from Puritan society she was thrown to another way of life and her wildness and peculiarity is a direct product of her banishment.