Scarlet letter, the whole ordeal(Once again i apologize for the extremely late post)

So to finish this off here is my opinion of this whole Scarlet letter ordeal. Even if the masses consider this piece of work to be a "Masterpiece" or whatever, i do not feel the same. Before you either agree or disagree with what im going to saying, first hear out my points, and then debate on whether or not you agree. First off, the reason literature is deemed a masterpiece, is because for the most part they are timeless. Topics such as forbidden love happen quite often in society so when a book is written about this topic it is usually a hit. The best example of this would be Romeo and Juliet. Now try to reason this against the Scarlet letter. If what happened in the scarlet letter happened now, would the same thing happen. the simple answer is no. As of now people are much less fearful of things, and portion of society has little no no faith in god, so that part would be completely irrelevant. Now this does not go to say anything against those who believe in a religion, or to those who dont, but i digress. "Bastard children" or those who are born out of wedlock, are quite common in today's society, so much so that, the term is rarely ever used in that context, so that part would be thrown out as well. Now take the scarlet letter, and remove the aspects of religion and the fact that Pearl was born out of wedlock, and what do you have, the lifeless shell of a broken minded story struggling to stay relevant in today's "modern" world. This does not go to say that we are any better than those before us, and many would stay to say we arent, but nonetheless, the connotation that these pieces of literature can stay with us throughout the ages, is simply not true. Eventually they will all become irrelevant, some more quickly than others.