... when facing the magistrates was hesitating to admit his act. The Puritans" culture and regulations played a significant role in both books. In The Crucible, as well as in the Scarlet Letter both groups of people were told to abide by certain rules of the Puritans. In both books, ... lowlife. Elizabeth Proctor was believed to be a witch after Abigail Williams stated her fallacy to the judges of the church. The prolific townspeople then began to consider their own Goody Proctor an outcast, because of Abigail's desire of revenge. Although The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter consist of numero...

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... the dishonor of his action. Hawthorne illustrates how insensitive a Puritan society can be to those who admit their sinful actions. The Crucible is a play that reveals the story of the famous witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts. In the story, Abigail Williams, the orphaned niece of the townminister, Reverend Parris, is the main person who accuses people of sending their spirits on her ... leads to the accusation and execution of many innocent people for witchcraft. The two works of literature, The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter have very similar qualities, including setting, diff...

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... have a main antagonist, who wishes to punish sinners. In The Scarlet Letter, this person is Roger Chillingworth, who wants to gain revenge on Dimmesdale, and in The Crucible, the antagonist is Abigail Williams, the girl who mainly accuses the people of being witches. Also, both works of literature include ignorant townspeople who contribute to the main conflict. In The Scarlet Letter, these ... also other parallels between characters in these two works. Another parallel is between Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter and Abigail Williams in The Crucible. While Hester is considered the pr...

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... different eras. Both characters lived in the same time period however, The Scarlet Letter was written in the late 1800's, and The Crucible was written in the 1950's. One cannot look at the qualities of Proctor and Dimmesdale without discussing each author and the time period in ... , and his name would be destroyed. Proctor and Dimmesdale, despite having very similar personalities, were written about in extremely different time periods. The Crucible was written in the 1950's, at a time when many people were McCarthy's. McCarthyism was a belief that the United States should be purified of...

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... 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 ... throughout the novel by how he reacts to the problems that he is momentar...

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... , leads to destruction and truly the tale of two tragedies . The setting of these two works of literature, are comparable. Both are in the area now known as Massachusetts, The Crucible being in Salem, and the Scarlet Letter in Boston. Each was set in the seventeenth century. Both are small communities where religion is the basis of government. But to understand ... these comparisons and contrasts, both stories have to be thoroughly read and understood. The crucible's main antagonist is Abigail Williams who is infatuated with a man named John Proctor who is considerably older than her, bu...

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Miller, the author of The Crucible, and Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, use literary techniques to emphasize the reconciliations of their characters. The writers use John Proctor and Arthur Dimmesdale as pawns to illustrate ... situation is slightly similar to Dimmesdales. Both men have committed adultery, and both are guilt ridden by their sins. John Proctor sleeps with his servant, Abigail Williams. Proctors wife, Elizabeth, dismissed Abigail after learning of the affair. Abigail then accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft, and to protect his wife, John must decide whether to save hi...

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... a vain attempt to explain what befell them, the Puritans built up "such personifications [and] marvelous interpretations"32 as to reveal their own morbid fascination with the unnatural. Arthur Miller's The Crucible best illustrates this hypocritical attraction-abhorrence nature of the Puritans. They believe that the forest was "the Devil's last preserve."33 Hence, when the Salem minister, Reverend Parris, discovers a group ... of girls from the town, including his daughter, Betty, and niece, Abigail, dancing and "conjuring up spirits"34 with his slave girl, Tituba, "the rumor of witchcr...

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John Proctor and Hester Prynne, two characters derived from a seventeenth century, puritan community have interesting views on life. John Proctor is selected from the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller. Hester prynne comes from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. John and Hester alike experienced public humiliation and grief. Although sharing these occurrences, John Proctor and Hester ... morals by stating he does read the bible. Toward the end of the play, John reveals the truth about his affair with Abigail Williams in order to try to save his wife from accusations of witchcr...

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