Pearl amp the Rosebush Jessica Goessler Grace Kim Casey Nolan Gabriela Tapia Michaelynn Welther Period 3 Gerber Thesis The beautiful yet wild nature of the rosebush personified in Pearl expresses both of their abilities to thrive in locations abnorma ID: 392487
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Hawthorne's Moral Wilderness
Pearl & the Rosebush
Jessica Goessler
Grace Kim
Casey Nolan
Gabriela Tapia
Michaelynn Welther
Period 3, GerberSlide2
Thesis
The beautiful yet wild nature of the rosebush, personified in Pearl, expresses both of their abilities to thrive in locations abnormal to them, suggesting that truth, though wild and difficult to accept, has beauty and will prevail even in adversity.Slide3
Pearl:
The Beauty
"Pearl?-Ruby, rather!-or Coral!-or
Red Rose
,at the very least, judging by thy hue!" (Chapter 8). Pearl has a natural beautyWell dressed
She had few similarities to a Pearl
More similar to a rose Slide4
The Forest Nymph
Though Hester loved Pearl, she also feared her.
Pearl was the result of Hester's sin
“Pearl resembled the brook, inasmuch as the current of her life gushed from a well-spring as mysterious, and had flowed through scenes shadowed as heavily with gloom” (Chapter 16).
Pearl was like natureSlide5
Pearl, "a blessing and a curse"
Pearl is beautiful, yet people avoid her, like a rose with it's thorns
Chapter 8, p.103
Villagers think she is demonic, represents her "evil" side
Chapter 8, p. 107
She exemplifies the truth and brings out the truth in people, which represents her "good"
Chapter 19, p. 198Slide6
The
Rosebush
Symbolically
In Reality:
-Fragile (hard to handle/easy to disturb)
-Symbolizes passion
-Thorny to the touch
-Bright/Vivid Color
-W
ild
I
n the novel, the rosebush mainly symbolizes moral hope.
"
...the child finally announced that she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses, that grew by the prison-door," (93).
Chapter
8:Slide7
The Rosebush
"This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history..." (72).
Pearl and the rose bush represent nature, which is a foil to Puritan civilization.
They both represent a harsh truth and reality in an environment that mainly tries to conceal its sin.
The rose- and Pearl- thrives in nature, where it belongs, and also in the village, where it stands out.
The rose is juxtaposed against the prison door; it grows next to it and exudes a beauty which was uncommon to the Puritans until Pearl came along.Slide8
Plucked from a Rosebush
Pearl and Rosebush= TRUTH of society
both arise in sinful nature
"...on one side of the portal...was a wild rose-bush with it's delicate gems which might...offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in... in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him" (33-34).
Thrived in or near the prison
"...the child finally announced that she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses, that grew by the prison door" (76). Slide9
The
Ugly, The Lovely, The Truth
The beauty of Pearl and the rose bush is the simple truth they represent. Although sinful, the truth that they represent is moral. Both thriving from the prison, the rosebush reminds the society of kindness and forgiveness. Pearl believes she was born from being plucked from the rosebush and entered the world in the prison. It is ironic how such beautiful figures exist near a place of the sinners, yet prevail in representing the truth. The truth is their sinful background embraced and accepted in the midst of society.