Stephanie
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
I understand wanting to shrten the book or thing that there was too much detail, but there are some things you have to take into consideration. <br>One, it took Hawthorne seven years to write this book. Everyword ws thought out beforehand. It was written this was to provoke people into thinking. He was one of the first "Romantic" writers. And please remember that when Romantic is used for this book, it has nothing to do with love or lust, all it deals with is the emotion, because books back then had more to do with logic than anything else. <br>Two, the reason that Hawthorne makes the religion sound hypocritical, is because it was. He knew this well, because his great grandfather was a witch hunter. So he took pride in his past, but also despised it. This books was, in a way, a means of showing that. He always meant for it to be that way. <br>Three, at the very least, people should try to accept the book for what it is. You don't have to love it, or even barley like it, but accept that it's a classic and a book that helped to pave the way for others in American Litereature. It was ahead of its time because while others were still thinking on the planes of logic, Hawthorne was thinking about how people might feel, instead of just how they would react. He was able to mix truth in fiction so that the story sounded as if it could have happened at the time, even though he was writing it over a hundred years later. This is one of the reasons that this book is forced on high school and college students. This was one of the first books written by an American. While Europe had the works of shakespear, whao was already long dead, and the ancient plays of the Greeks and Romans, we were still trying to find out way in the world. <br><br>also, but this is my own opinion, I never saww romance in the book. I saw passion, and hate, but never anything that was really close to love. since the book was about sins never being able to be forgotten, or purged, then it really wouldn't have been possible for anyone to reclaim love or to even fall in love again.