Theme Of Isolation In The Scarlet Letter

Hester, without the involvement of the community is ashamed by her sin, although the people of the settlement have, by their actions, denounced the teachings of their god and taken it upon themselves to punish her. When Hester enters church to “share the Sabbath smile of the Universal Father” she “[finds] herself the text of discourse”(#). The isolation created by the townspeople in the name of a religion that is supposedly all-inclusive goes against the Puritan faith. In the town children yell at Hester, for they had “imbibed from their parents” that she had “done something wrong” (#). Hester not left by the community to be judged by God, but is instead used as entertainment and gossiped about in homes of the townspeople. Hester also is used