When Hester is given the choice to move or stay in the community, she decides to stay in the community but in an isolated area of ​​the forest. Hester Prynne did not flee: “On the outskirts of the town, on the edge of the peninsula, but near no other habitation, there was a small cottage. It had been built by a former settler and abandoned because the soil around it was too sterile for cultivation, while its relative remoteness put it outside the sphere of this social activity which already marked the habits of emigrants. He stood on the shore, looking across a pool of sea toward the forest-covered hills, to the west” (Hawthorne 67). She decided to stay but isolated herself in the forest because there you can generate a different identity or character. The rules are not enforced in the forest so it develops there. With Dimmesdale, he lives in a town where everything is known and where everything can be punished if necessary. Dimmesdale, when living in society, must constantly fear that someone will discover his guilty secret. This puts a burden on his health due to the pain he feels due to the guilt and weakness he feels from not being able to admit his actions. When Hester and Dimmesdale meet in the woods, they become happy again. For example: “It was with a feeling neither of them had ever felt before.,