novels‚ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ there are similar storylines with motives. The authors in both novels engendered tension within their characters by inducing an oversensitive scenario as in infidelity. The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible tend to delineate precedents of adultery within romantic triangles that cause a major controversy in which a pandemonium occurs due to the citizens of their hometowns feedback. In The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne
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Among many writing pieces there are connections that may not be known. The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne are two separate writing pieces that have two characters that are connected by one act that they committed. John Proctor from The Crucible and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale from The Scarlet Letter have both committed adultery. Also‚ both men cannot live with committing adultery; therefore they cannot live with the crime. Before the beginning of the writings
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The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible are two books about an illegal act that negatively affected a group of Puritans‚ during the 17th century. In The Scarlet Letter‚ the narrator tells a story about a woman who commits adultery with her lover and decides to live away from the other Puritans. In The Crucible‚ a man hides his sin from the Puritans in Boston‚ which ultimately leads to the Salem Witch Trials. Proctor and Dimmesdale are main characters in the books who face physical and mental problems
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The main character‚ Abigail‚ of Arthur Miller’s book‚ "The Crucible"‚ and Hester of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book‚ "The Scarlet Letter"‚ have many common and distinct characteristics. Both beautiful and young‚ full of and secrets and sin‚ and fall in love with people they can’t be with. But differ in the way they were punished‚ what they have done‚ and their relationship with their lovers. Let’s talk about the similarities between Abigail and Hester. Beauty is the most common similarity between the
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Hawthorne‚ The Scarlet Letter and second by Arthur Miller‚ The Crucible‚ say a lot about puritan lives during this time period. The Scarlet Letter took place in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ and The Crucible took place in Salem‚ Massachusetts. Both of his works deal with sin‚ its effects on different characters‚ people’s reactions‚ each character’s conflicts‚ and their resolution to the conflicts. Dimmesdale‚ who is one of the main characters in The Scarlet Letter‚ and John Proctor‚ who is in The Crucible. Dimmesdale
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where the system and all of its components were based on God‚ Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Judge Danforth from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible were bound to suffer from the Puritan values which they believed in during the Puritan era. After thoroughly analyzing both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ it is evident that Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Judge Danforth were notably victimized by the Puritan ethics of body
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two main themes in The Scarlet Letter and Young Goodman Brown. One of the main themes is the idea that good and evil are always present and it is a choice to do something good or something evil. This is evident in The Scarlet Letter by the choices that Hester Prynne makes. In Young Goodman Brown‚ Brown had the choice to become good or evil as he walked through the forest. Another theme in both of the stories is how the Puritan community is corrupt. In The Scarlet Letter it is implied that not
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literature‚ there seems to be characters that seem to embody what the other is about‚ personality wise. Yet‚ characters also have some things which distinguishes them in an individual manner‚ therefore making them unique. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Abigail Williams and Roger Chillingworth fit that criteria. Each character is driven by a force‚ a motivation which helps them execute their dastardly plans: Revenge. Abigail is consummated by damning
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literature‚ there are many ways to indirectly convey or foreshadow events‚ settings‚ and situations. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter uses a great deal of literary devices and techniques in order to effectively lead the reader towards his viewpoint and‚ finally‚ towards his purpose. The sin of adultery‚ which acts as the base and impetus for much of the plot in The Scarlet Letter‚ affects Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth the most; however‚ each of the preceding is affected
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with differences‚ falls in the works of Arthur Miller’s Crucible and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter. One way that Crucible and Scarlet Letter are so similar‚ is that of their settings. Both Crucible and Scarlet Letter are set in Massachusetts around the 1600-1700 time period. The Scarlet Letter is set in a time period in which the sins taught by the Puritans were just as important and weighted as the demands of the law. Similarly‚ Crucible is set during a time that the sin of witchcraft was not
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