Scarlett Letter
...she misbehaves, but quickly draws back when she realizes that she must in fact allow her to learn from her errors and be swayed by her own impulses. In the novel The Scarlett Letter we also learn that Hester often at times exhibits hatred and resentfulness toward her own daughter, as a result of her "demon-like" attributes.We also learn that Pearl resents her mother because she refuses to take on her punishment with dignity and righteousness. One reason why Hester resents Pearl is because everyday, when she peers into Pearl's eyes, she envisions this dark and wild peculiarity and she sees a shadowy reflection of the evil that had existed in herself. She resented Pearl so much that once, she dropped on her knees and uttered "O Father in Heaven-if Thou art still my Father,- what is this being which I have brought into the world!" Hester believed at times that Pearl's main purposes of her existence were to make a mockery of her as well as torture her. She even tells her daughter that she did not conceive her and that is the child of the Heavenly Father. Pearl resents her mother because in the above-mentioned paragraph, she refuses to accept her punishment in stride, but rather views it as a curse, rather than a learning experience. For example, when Pearl has an interview with her biological father, the Reverend Arthur Dimmsdale for the first time, her mother removes the beautifully embroidered scarlett letter from her bosom. When Hester summons Pearl to have a conversation with her father, she immediately refuses, points at the scarlett letter, and tells her mother to place it uopn her bosom once again. Hester listens to her daughter, realizing that from birth, the scarlett letter is what she is and what she will be...