The research on Pearl's life story shows that Pearl has symbolic meanings. For herself, she is a real scarlet letter, a treasure of beauty, a part of nature, a moral and a rebel. For her mother, she is a symbol of mother's sin, a symbol of m...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a Dark Romantic, and a short story writer. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. His ancestor is related with a case called “Salem witch trials”, that Hawthorne was ashamed of. And in ...