Similarities Between The Scarlet Letter And The Crucible

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This two topics The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible are two literary words. The Scarlet Letter is nonfiction, however, The Crucible is drama along with a partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials. Both stories focused in the puritanism and arousing. “In the early severity of the puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn” (Hawthorne). That text foreshadows how strict people are from The Scarlet Letter. “The rumor of witchcraft is all about; I think you’d best go down and deny it yourself” (Miller). That statement is the evidence of how the people gossip and how strict they are about all this and also about unnatural activities and breaking law in that age of time. In The Scarlet Letters the main character committed a sin. The punishment for the sin she committed was to wear a scarlet letter ‘A’ which is a symbol of adultery for a long time. People anathematize …show more content…

When the two character of the story Betty Parris and Abigail Williams were doing some suspicious activity one day before Betty got sick. Her dad Reverend Parris saw them doing strange things in the forest. Parris think it's a witch activity so does Sushana when she says this is unnatural but parris denies it and tells sushana to not say any word about what happened earlier. Parris is also concern about this reputation. “Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character”(Miller). The text describes what can happen to him if people in society find out about it. Additionally he also describes how people can bring him down and also how hard he had worked to get in that position. In my point of view, Abigail is probably hiding something and it feels like a part is missing in the story or she’s not hiding anything and parris is just forcing her to admit that something was going

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