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Essay Archive - Review of The Scarlet Letter
Review of The Scarlet Letter
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....
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