"God gave me the child!" cried she. "He gave her in requital of all
things else which ye had taken from me. She is my happiness--she is my
torture, none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me,
too! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved,
and so endowed with a millionfold the power of retribution for my sin?
Ye shall not take her! I will die first!"
Although Pearl is Hester's doom, she accepts Pearl and treasures her dearly as Pearl is the only one left of her.
I agree with Tony, and his post relates to romanticism because Hester is showing emotions, and she is being all dramatic and letting her emotions speak.
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