Part 1 of Essay
In the New Testament it states that "the wages of sin is death." Though the penalty of sin in The Scarlet Letter is not a termination of life, the evil of isolation can be a physically, morally, and socially tortuous event in Puritan society. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, are both ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... sin, she becomes an exile in her own town. "All the world Ha[s] frowned on her," and Hester must bear the brunt of her shameful isolation. When Hester walks through her town "a sort of magic circle [forms] itself around her." Devoid of any social contact, save that of her daughter, Hester must endure of lonely existence. "In all her intercourse with society, save that of her daughter, there was nothing that made [Hester] feel as if she belonged to it."; therefore, she turns to herself for reflection of her shame ....