As with any interpretation of a text, one must remember
that an individual's justification regarding a meaning of a line is simply that: an
individual's reasoning. That being said, some may find other quotes which support
Hester's Puritan parenting styles in The Scarlet
Letter.
So you know, I have access to an E-text
and cannot provide pages numbers for the quotes as you requested. What I will do is give
you the chapter and paragraph number from which the quote is being
taken.
The following quotes show a comparison to Hester's
raising of Pearl in a Puritan fashion.
With nothing now to lose, in the sight of
mankind, and with no hope, and seemingly no wish, of gaining any thing, it could only be
a genuine regard for virtue that had brought back the poor wanderer to its
paths.
The preceding quote is
from Chapter 13. It is the last sentence of the second paragraph of the
chapter.
The reason that this quote shows Hester's Puritan
parenting skills is because the Puritans (believing that all people were sinners and
damned) needed to live virtuous lives to insure their passage into
Heaven.
The next quote that supports Hestor as being a good
Puritan parent is found in the first sentence of the third paragraph of Chapter
13:
It was
perceived, too, that, while Hester never put forward even the humblest title to share in
the world's privileges,--farther than to breathe the common air, and earn daily bread
for little Pearl and herself by the faithful labor of her
hands.
This quote shows that
Hester stripped herself down to the bare minimum- something the Puritan did to
Christianity so that their religion was a pure one. This quote shows that Hester wished
to do nothing more than show her faith through the work of her "faithful
hands."
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