In her was visible
the tie that united them. (Page numbers will vary depending on edition, but I will
include those from my own book, for reference. Page 141)
This quote is ashowing the bonds thatcreates. She is partand part ,
and for seven years she has quietly kept them bound together without even knowing it.
She had been offered to the world...as the living hieroglyphic, in
which was revealed the secret they so darkly sought to hide. (Page 141)
Thiscompares Pearl to hieroglyphs, which were symbols used by the
ancient Egyptians in some of the earliest recorded forms of writing. To our modern society,
these little symbols are almost like puzzles, each pictoral representation seeming to contribute
a bit of meaning to a larger effort. Thus, Pearl is a representation of the shared and secretive
past between Hester and Dimmesdale.
I have a strange fancy
that this brook is the boundary between two worlds... (Page 143)
Hester's world collides...
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