The Scarlet Letter: Review
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 end result
is The Scarlet Letter. Desp ....
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.... 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 enforce an unjust law that does not even apply to this situation?
Although the subjects of the novel do app ....
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Number of words: 487
Number of pages: 2 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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