rigorous, conservative, highly devout society. While this may have usually been

the case, this was not always so. The Puritan society was also known not to act

out of brotherly, "Christian love", but to cruelly lash out on those

who sinned or were deemed unfit for society. Two works of literature that

display both aspects of this society very accurately are The Scarlet Letter, by

Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. The Scarlet Letter

displays a society that treats two people very differently who commit the sin of

adultery together. The woman, Hester Prynne, admits her sin, is forced to always

wear a scarlet letter "A" on her bosom, and is ostracized from

society. The man, Reverend Dimmesdale, who hides his sin from the world, is

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