The Scarlet Letter

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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 influences on the time period, they were not great.
During the times and in the Puritan community this did not have a large
affect on anything. Sure, they did not want anyone committing adultery, most
were killed if convicted, but it was not something that upset their way of
living in any permanent manner. To an individual or group who was battling
something backward in the Puritan society, as were many things, this would
have been an inspirational book and possibly a revelation.


In short, this book could have been exceptional; it had all the ...

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