Isolation Through Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Lette

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He shows that sin, known or unknown to the community, isolates a person from their community and from God. Hawthorne also shows this by symbols in nature around the town, natural symbols in the heavens, and nature in the forest. First, two symbols in the town show how sin isolate people. In the first chapter there is a plant that stands out, "But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rosebush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems" (46)...
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It stands out as wild and different among the grass and weeds as Hester does in the Puritan town. She wears her scarlet letter as the rosebush wears its scarlet blossoms. Later in the book Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth (Hester's unknown husband) discuss a strange dark plant that Chillingworth discovered...
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