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