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"Hester Prynne named her daughter Pearl because she was born into a sin and she was always happy so Hester thought that she was a freak of nature. so since a pearl is a part of nature it fitted her daughter personality perfectly."
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Hester probably named her Pearl because she is a small, beautiful treasure. This is supported in the beginning of Chapter 6, when is it written that her daughter was, "of great price - purchased with all she had - her mother's only treasure!"
Hawthorne, however, may have had his own reasons. A pearl is created when an impurity enters an oyster (like the sin that enters the soul of Hester) but is revealed as a beautiful gem. Pearl is a beautiful daughter, born of a sinful act that "pollutes" Hester's soul. But in life, she is full of energy and enthusiastic life. She is a pure spirit, (pearls also represent purity) that is able to flit through life unaffected by the repression of Puritan society.
Hawthorne may have also been alluding to the biblical references to pearls as symbols of heaven's gates, Jesus Christ, and Heaven. If this was Hawthorne's intent, then Hester's daughter may be a path to her salvation. Likewise, Pearl's irreverence to the morals and mores of Puritan life may be an example of how to live in the world if one is to seek salvation.
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