Red letters may affect people in various ways. For example, it may affect the human body and emotions. Quarantine greatly affects people in various areas of life. Hester is affected both mentally and physically. In Nasaniel's red letter, Hawthorne was alienated, isolated, physically emotional as red letters were written in her chest. Hester was affected by the isolation of the mind and body.
In "Red Letter", Nathaniel Hawthorne is investigating the influence of alienation and isolation in the dark which kills Puritans. These influences are largely negative; one of the themes of this book is that alienation and isolation find true happiness and do not contribute to achieving true moral relief. Among the "deficits", the hero shows the negative impact these social isolations can have on people. After her adultery and corruption, Hester Prine was lonely living in the suburbs of Boston. She found consolation in a community that looked down on her previous behavior, but Hester suffered from isolation from the other after all. After she retires from public duty she thinks about this hypocrisy which is the morality of Puritan. She had to rethink her life and have to ask for forgiveness and atonement from our daily lives.
The separation in the "red letter" is in the New Testament, it says "wages of sin is death." Criminal punishment in "red" is not going to end, but the isolated evil may be an event of physical, moral and social twist and turnover in Puritan society. Among Hawthorn 's "red letters", Hester Pudding and Arthur Dimsdale are both victims of their crime and are also a cruel isolation of Puritan society. - In "red letters", hypocrisy is overflowing. Hester, Ding Mesdale, Chillingworth, and the character of the society where the characters lived are immersed in hypocrisy. Hawthorne is not reserved to explain the terrible evil of hypocrisy; he ensures that sin is easily seen at work, at the same time similarity is defined as "red letter" with the character of today's society It will be drawn in between.