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
.... 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
because Hester has deviated from the norm, all to enforc ....
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Word count: 481
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
