{"id":28537,"date":"2025-07-08T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28537"},"modified":"2025-07-09T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:39:10","slug":"has-the-scarlet-letter-an-alchemist-symbolism-pearl-being-the-symbol-of-the-philosophers-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/07\/08\/has-the-scarlet-letter-an-alchemist-symbolism-pearl-being-the-symbol-of-the-philosophers-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the Scarlet Letter an alchemist symbolism, Pearl being the symbol of the philosopher&#8217;s stone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AW070825.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AW070825.1.jpg\" alt=\"Has the Scarlet Letter an alchemist symbolism, Pearl being the symbol of the philosopher's stone?\" class=\"wp-image-28535\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Has the Scarlet Letter an alchemist symbolism, Pearl being the symbol of the philosopher&#8217;s stone?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pearl is certainly transformative, but Hawthorne does such a remarkable job imbuing the child with the liveliness of an unfettered child that imagining her as a stone is difficult. And yet\u2026 Hawthorne had friends who&#8217;d read widely in Hindu and Buddhist works, and might have been familiar with Chintamani, a wish-giving jewel sometimes referred to as a pearl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearl is certainly transformative, but Hawthorne does such a remarkable job imbuing the child with the liveliness of an unfettered child that imagining her as a stone is difficult. And yet\u2026 Hawthorne had friends who&#8217;d read widely in Hindu and Buddhist works, and might have been familiar with Chintamani, a wish-giving jewel sometimes referred to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/07\/08\/has-the-scarlet-letter-an-alchemist-symbolism-pearl-being-the-symbol-of-the-philosophers-stone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Has the Scarlet Letter an alchemist symbolism, Pearl being the symbol of the philosopher&#8217;s stone?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28544,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28537\/revisions\/28544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}