Nathaniel Hawthorne’’s The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a profoundly dramatic and thought-provoking speculative fiction novella on the character of guilt and the consequences of justice. I would have awarded this book five - star rating, but I can’’t since Hawthorne rushes the conclusion and comes to an end to all of the characters’’ narratives too hastily.
Hawthorne’’s storytelling approach immerses the audience in the predicament of his protagonists to the point in which the climax does not appear as substantial and well-written as the whole of the narrative. Within the last six pages of the section, Hawthorne wipes off the principal adversary(Roger Chillingworth), has Hester’’s daughter, Pearl, escape without explanations, then high speed across generations of time and takes off the central protagonist, Hester Prynne. The tale finishes with a presentation of Hester’’s headstone. Everything looks rushed as if Hawthorne was constrained to 24 chapters and had to pack everything else he needed to write aside from the primary tale into the final one.
The tale is intriguing, and the personalities are really well, but it’’s a slow burn, with a thirty-page prologue and approximately ten volumes before Hawthorne gets the narrative flowing. On an unrelated matter, terms like "bosom" and "utter humiliation" are extensively repeated all through the novel. I suppose Hawthorne should really have done a far better job of discovering new equivalents to avoid his prose style being too repetitive. Although with the parts that bothered me, The Scarlet Letter is an interesting read.