The Scarlet Letter

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. What makes this a unique instance of good versus evil is
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