Essay Archive - Analysis of Three of Hawthorne's Works: Solitude and Isolation
Analysis of Three of Hawthorne's Works: Solitude and Isolation
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" (Webster 655).
Nathaniel Hawthorne uses these themes of solitude and isolation for the
characters in several of his works. "Hawthorne is interested only in those
beings, of excep....
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