Review Of The Scarlet Letter
Beginning of paper
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 ....
Middle of paper
.... day. 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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Word count: 487
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
