The crazy, uncivilized stories are more favorable than the regular stories. Simple literature is often composed of common and everyday events which can be predictable and similar to real life. Daring, scary, and free stories are surprising and not so predictable.
Outrageous literature is amusing and popular because readers want to live outside of their own reality, and those who are raised with certain standards, you become attached in these books with crazy adventures, to read these books is entertainment to those who have "boring" lives, just like smoking is bad, something keeps people addicted just like in like "The Scarlet Letter".
To commit Adultery is wrong, whether a male or female is doing so, this book shows the all the wrong. The book makes all the wrong exciting and interesting because it has so looked down upon back then. For a book to be written like that in that time is rare and more than likely unheard of, people were so caught up in what was write and how to do things correctly and by the book. While reading this book I was excited and fascinated because you don't usually read of things like this.
Although the book was based on Religion and sin I still found it interesting how the characters reacted, and handled the situations in the book. Religion in books is never made a mockery of and I left the Author portrayed that in a symbolic way by showing how uptight the people were about little things like an illegitimate child being born and having to be public embarrassed because of it, now a days if that would have happened it would have handled differently let alone not at all because it happens daily, showing that the ways of people have changed dramatically.
The book "The Scarlet Letter" and ones alike start off with a interesting plot to immediately grab the reader into the book, when I first started reading I was captivated in the first scene with the girl being punished for committing Adultery, and even her own child was also looked down upon and shunned by the Puritan community for committing such a sin and having an illegitimate child.
Without books that are daring and adventurest, there would not be many "must reads" or "I couldn't put the book down it was so good". Back then Authors where looked down upon for writing such stories, but without books like this we would never pick up another book by our own free will, and actually enjoy it.
"The Scarlet Letter" was meant to be a symbol of shame, because of the events that took place. I don't see the book as a symbol of shame just because of an "illegitimate" child was born. Being a illegitimate child I find no wrong in the child and I think it was wrong for the child to be looked down upon for her mothers actions. I would like to know when books with such thoughts started to be published, and if they knew they had suck controversial ideas why would they continue publishing them if the public had such a negative outlook on books like "The Scarlet Letter"
Some may think that books like "The Scarlet Letter" might ruin to flow of society and drag a certain generation or group of people to do things in books like these, I feel books like these can be real life problems, conflicts, secrets, revenge, or crazy plots. But reading one book wont make someone commit a murder just because they read a mystery book to prove that they wont get caught, I see books as movies that you have to create yourself in your head with lots of imagination and creativity.
I am glad and feel lucky that there are such creative Authors out there in the world to allow me and others readers to escape from the real word and all its daily predictable troubles, I enjoy reading books that have me wanting to be the character and feel what the character is going through. I feel it is not a problem to have a book with such crazy and unheard of ideas because it helps me grow as a person and if I was ever put in anytime of situation I can learn from books because the characters are so strong.
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