Essay Archive - The Scarlet Letter: Review
The Scarlet Letter: Review
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. Despite all these things it is considered a classic and
was a statement of the era.
The Scarlet Letter is a wonderful and not so traditional example of the
good versus evil theme. What makes....
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