Analysis Of Three Of Hawthorne's Works: Solitude And Isolation
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Solitude and isolation are immense, powerful, and overcoming feelings.
They possess the ability to destroy a person's life by overwhelming it with
gloom and darkness. Isolate is defined: to place or keep by itself, separate
from others (Webster 381). Solitude is "the state of being alone" (Webst ....
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.... worst evil that
can befall aman" (Adams 73). Each of the characters above are separated from
the world because of some sin or evil. Their separation is a painful,
devastating feelings. The themes of solitude and isolation are depicted in
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "Young Goodman Brown, "and
"Rappaccini's Daughter."
At the age of four, Nathaniel Hawthorne's father died, devastating his
mother and destroying his family forever. He later recalls how his mother and
sisters woul ....
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