... court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between."(Act 3) Here Danforth demonstrates the emotion that puritans felt toward insubordination and defiance of Puritan lifestyle. Reverend Parris, one of characters who seek power within all the hysteria that has swept the town, is a prime example of a Puritan. Parris takes this time, now that every one is concerned with his daughter Abigail, to regain ... this necessity for power through Reverend Parris, while The Scarlet Letter explains the inabilities of these powers, which in turn explains the devotion of these powers to ab...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Adam and Eve committed man's first sin by eating a piece of fruit from the Garden of Eden. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller portray characters committing sins throughout the novel. More importantly both novels incorporate the theme of sin as adultery throughout the sequence of the story. John Proctor, a farmer in The Crucible, and Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister in The Scarlet Letter, both have similar experiences with adultery, but Proctor ... seems to approach his sin in a more honorable manner than Dimmesdale. John Proctor demonstrates his ...

• Word Count: 689
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate