Each of these unique and well written novels share some similarities.
They share a setting; Massachusetts Bay.
Colony, relative time period; early America in the 1600's and 1700's, and.
both have a key word coupled with them, adultery. They also have the same.
harsh leaders, bitter communities and religious doctrine. Both have.
incorporated the freedom of the wilderness and the safety of the town. Plus.
they express the guilt and suffering of the human conscience. Nathaniel.
Hawthorne is even related to Judge Hawthorne from The Crucible. In this.
essay, I will compare and contrast The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible in.
themes relating to both.
In Arthur Miller's book, adultery is not seen by most as a major point,.
but it is the focus around which the death of the main characters, John and.
Elizabeth Proctor, is built. Proctor committed the sin, and crime, of lechery.
with Abigail and tells the court so during his trial. He does this to discredit.
her accusations against his wife, which he knows are false. He says that he.
knows her as a whore, his wife knew all about it, but she didn't know of his.
public confession. She is summoned to the court, to prove Proctor right, for.
the court believes he is lying. Loyally yet unknowingly she says that he.
didn't, condemning her and her husband to death in the process. Thus it.
becomes related to Nathaniel Hawthorne's book whose entire plot revolves.
around the sin of adultery. In the core of the market place, Dimmesdale does.
the same thing and admits to the sin that has plagued him for seven years.
This too would have made him hang; however he dies from the overbearing.
joy and pain of his newfound purity. He would have confessed for wholly.
different reasons and is not sorry for his sin, for it is a sin committed for love.
rather than lust.
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Civilization symbolizes safety. God and purity in The Crucible. The.
forest is a dark place where bad things happen, such as compacts with the.
Devil, and the people who live near it are often included in its awful.
