Pearl is the Scarlet LetterPearl is the living embodiment of the Scarlet Letter as it forces Hester and Dimmesdale to accept their sins. Puritan society views Pearl as a child of the devil and a black-hearted girl because she is the result of sin. Both Hester and Dimmesdale are in the same situation in Pearl's eyes. Pearl wants Hester to realize that she is not the worst person in the world before she removes the scarlet letter. Pearl wants Dimmesdale to accept his sin and publicly be a part of their lives. Pearl is all Hester has in her life. She says that Pearl: "keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me too! Don't you see, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and thus endowed with a million times the power of retribution of my sin?" (Hawthorne 100). Hawthorne shows that Pearl represents the scarlet letter not only symbolically but also literally. Hester says that Pearl is the living scarlet letter and causes her more anguish than the scarlet letter itself. Pearl is only difficult when she sees her mother trying to run away from her sins the wrong way. This is why Pearl makes her mother keep the scarlet letter. Hester knows she did a bad thing, but she doesn't feel like a good person and won't feel that way until she accepts her sins. Hester wants to escape the situation, leaving her sin behind, and live contentedly in Dimmesdale as a sinner with another sinner. Pearl will not let this happen because she knows that by leaving, Hester is escaping her sins and living her life thinking she is a bad person. Hester talks about leaving with Dimmesdale: “It is enough for the pastor to decide to flee, and not alone. .... (Dimmesdale) “But now, since I am irrevocably condemned, why should I not snatch away the comfort given to the condemned culprit before his execution? Or, if it is the path to a better life, as Hester would persuade me, I will surely give up no fairer prospect in pursuing it! " (Hawthorne 184). Hester desires to leave the world in which she is a sinner and live a new life. Dimmesdale knows that he will die soon, so why not leave the place of his sin and go with Hester to a better life..