The Scarlet Letter: Review
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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 ....
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.... Or Hester can be seen as rebelling against a society where she
was forced into a loveless marriage and hence she would be the "good guy," or
girl, as the case may be. Also the townspeople, the magistrates, and
Chillingworth, Hester's true husband, can be seen in both lights. Either they
can be perceived as just upholding the law -she committed a crime, they enforce
the law. On the other hand are they going to extreme measures such as wanting
to take Pearl, Hester's daughter, away just ....
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