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

who admit their sinful actions. The Crucible is a play that reveals the story of

most of the townspeople, because he feels the need to punish and inflict pain on

pped by the townspeople, but is filled with the dishonor of his

execution of many innocent people for witchcraft. The two works of literature,

the conflict that lies in each plot. The conflicts in both works of literature

The setting of a religiously intolerant village is also the main reason behind

setting takes place, causes them both. The conflict in The Scarlet Letter that

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