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The English language is flawed in that it fails when trying to describe certain senses, feelings, and abstract ideas. It is difficult to reduce even the most mundane of lives and the most boring of people to a disciption of only two or three words. People are multi-faceted and their many aspects take on more than a few syllables or one general idea. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it has often been noted …

…true possession and love, yet Pearl was also a curse - she served as a living embodiment of the scarlet letter itself. In conclusion, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the characters in The Scarlet Letter as prototypes. The main characters of Hawthorne’s novel are not Hester, Chillingworth, Dimesdale, and Pearl, but instead passion, vengeance, cowardice, and perceptiveness. Hawthorne uses the human characters mearly as mediums for the traits he wishes to have interact with one another.