... the play and novel. The wilderness and town, the human conscience and adultery, at least in The Scarlet Letter, were critical to the structure of the novels and made the foci clear and concise. Miller was straighter and truer to his themes while Hawthorne used a lot of detail, probably too much, to exaggerate the characters' feelings while still getting the objective ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School