Pearl

"We have as yet hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion"

- Chapter 6

Pearl is a major character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''The Scarlet Letter. ''She is the daughter of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne.

Born an illegitimate child, Pearl is the product of Hester and Dimmesdale’s sin and is considered a devilish child who is obsessed with her mother’s scarlet letter and has secret abilities such as talking to wildlife and interested in the Black Man paganism. As the story progresses, though, Pearl starts to gain triumph like Hester.