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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Alienation
Throughout his book The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne is preoccupied
with the relationship between the individual and society. Hester's sin and
subsequent condemnation alienate her. No where is this alienation more
apparent than in Chapter 5, "Hester at her Needle". Condemned by her sin
of passion, Hester is separated from her community, not only physically,
as she lives on the edge of the town, and socially, as she this chapter
Hawthorne presents the most profoundly destructive aspect of her
estrangement in her psychological condition. Hester, deemed a social
par ....
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