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 . Despite all these things ....
Middle of paper
.... 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 apply to important issues in history
and could have had influence ....
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Number of words: 481
Number of pages: 2 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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