Additionally, Zenobia assigns society-based gender norms to Blithedale, which thwarts that aspect of utopia before it can even be attempted: "'we women (there are four of us) here, already) will take care of the domestic and internal part of the business, as a matter of course'" (Hawthorne 16). It is strange that a community of social reformers would immediately maintain the ways they are trying to abolish. Yet Zenobia claims to be a feminist and to embody feminist ideals. He never manages to treat Priscilla as an equal in the novel and constantly puts aside his own ideals to defend Hollingsworth's. He uses her, and when he realizes it, she is devastated, even though he was treating Priscilla just as unkindly. **the main vice is