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oking-glass, by the most powerful light which he could throw upon it. He thus typified the constant introspection wherewith he tortured, but could not purify, himself.
    The minister well knew-subtle, but remorseless hypocrite that he was!-the light in which his vague confession would be viewed. He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty conscience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self-acknowledged shame, without the momentary relief of being self-deceived. He had spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the varies falsehood. And yet, by the constitution of his nature, he loved the truth, and loathed the lie, as few men ever did. Therefore, above all things else, he loathed his miserable self!
    The bible begins with a story of Adam and Eve, which were expelled from the Garden of Eden for eating fruits from the tree of knowledge, and they were forced to toil on earth. The experience of Hester and Dimmesdale reminds readers of the story of Adam and Eve because, in both cases, sin result in expulsion and suffering. In the case of Dimmesdale, he committed the sin of adultery and consequently he suffered a lot to gain moral regeneration and the graceful pardon from god, but in vain. His family became an unpardonable sinner because of his hidden sin. At the end of the novel, he heroically threw off the hypocrisy, pride, and the fears that had made his life an ongoing deception and mounted the steps of the scaffold in broad daylight. With his last breath Dimmesdale was able to bring a certain peace to his own soul and dropped the unbearable burden in mind. In the light of his religious beliefs, Dimmesdale gained moral salvation and he could go to heaven to enjoy god’s grace. According to secularism, however, the loss of life is the greatestpunishment for a sinner and Dimmesdale is not at all forgiven by god.
D. Pearl’s Lonely Asking for Recognition
    Pearl, is the daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale. Hester named the infant “Pearl,” as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother’s only treasure! How strange, indeed! In other hand, because of her sham father-Dimmesdale, she had no father’s love in her growing path. She lived with her mother; Pearl is an elf-child of her mother. In the world, she just had mother’s love. Dimmesdale for his publicity, he can’t admit Pearl. He abandoned her forever.
    Because Pearl was a serious sin for the society, when she was a child, she had no friends. Pearl arrives at age that was capable of social intercourse, beyond the mother’s ever-ready smile and nonsense-words! And then what a happiness would it have been, could Hester have heard her clear, birdlike voice mingling with the uproar of other childish voice, and have distinguished and unraveled her own darling’s tones, amid all the entangled outcry of a group of sportive children! But this could never be. Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world. An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants. Nothing was more remarkable than the instinct, as it seemed, with which the child comprehended her loneliness; the destiny that had drawn an inviolable circle round about her. She wants to attention from the society.

Ⅳ. Symbolic Representations of Loneliness

    Symbolic is the writing technique of using symbols. A symbol is something that conveys two kinds