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The Scarlet Letter: Review


Adultery, betrayal, promiscuity, subterfuge, and intrigue, all of which
would make an excellent coming attraction on the Hollywood scene and probably a
pretty good book. Add Puritan ideals and writing styles, making it long, drawn
out, tedious, wearisome, sleep inducing, insipidly asinine, and the end result
is The Scarlet Letter. Despite all these things it is considered a classic and
was a statement of the era.
The Scarlet Letter is a wonderful and not so traditional example of the
good versus evil theme. What makes this a unique instance of good versus evil
is that either side could be considered either one. Hester could very easily
have been deduced as evil, or the "bad guy," as she was by the townspeople. That
is, she was convicted of adultery, a horrible sin of the time, but maybe not
even seen as criminal today. As for punishment, a sentence to wear a scarlet
"A" upon her chest, it would hardly be considered a burden or......

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