Isolation In The Scarlet Letter

Positive Outcome from Isolation Most often, isolation is brought on by a wrong-doing in society. Consequently, society normally views the wrong-doer as a threat to peace within a community and wishes to remove them from the area by isolation. Isolation is feared in society and believed that once isolated, one looses all sanity. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee both depict characters whom have been positively changed by society’s judgment and isolation. The Puritan’s imagined a “Utopia of human virtue and happiness” (Pearl) when they established a society in America, and they saw it necessary to forcibly remove the bad seeds from their community, whether it occur through death or isolation. Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter…show more content…
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