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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne and her daughter Pearl are isolated from society; this is shown by where they live, the action from people toward Pearl and Pearl's reaction, and finally the response of the community toward Hester's scarl ....

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.... in that way punishes her(Hawthorne 78). This house was far enough from civilization that Hester and Pearl did not have a friend in the world besides each other. Pearl, is a descendent both of sweet children who fashioned a play maiden out of snow and of the friend's infants who stoned the gentle boy(Van Doren 130). Pearl causes several disturbances to Hester throughout the novel. Governor Belligham plans to take away the child, if it was not for Dimmesdale Pearl may have left her mother's arms(Hawthorne 109). All that Pearl and Hester had were each other(Hawthorne 85). Hester Prynne is constantly pointed out for her sin, because of the scarlet ....