Adultery, betrayal, promiscuity, subterfuge, and intrigue, all of which would make an excellent coming attraction on the Hollywood scene and probably a pretty good book. Add Puritan ideals and writing styles, making it long, drawn out, tedious, wearisome, sleep inducing, insipidly asinine, and the end result is . Despite all these things it is considered a classic and was a statement of the era. is a wonderful and not so traditional example of the good versus evil theme. What makes this a unique instance of good versus evil is ....