The people of Puritanistic faith claim to be the ones raised in good nature and proper upbringing, as not to lead to such a sin as adultery, as Hester had committed. ... The idea of predestination is a "predetermined fate" and it seemed more that the people of the town were more interested in deciding Hester's fate for her now because of her sin. The sin was committed between two adults but the town seemed to strangely get twisted along into it and travel with Hester throughout the novel. If this had been done in today's society, Hester would have had much more privacy, and...

• Word Count: 568
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The court needs to look beyond prior judgments and events of the past and see the truth which I will prepare before you. ... God does not acknowledge those who sin against him and will see to that they be the ones who suffer. Does God reach down and grab those who have sinned and pardon them? ... He sinned against God. ...

• Word Count: 360
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Sin. ... Despite how severe it was sin is sin, Puritanism is best described as a religion with strict rules, which punished all sin because of the different branches that it could affect in the colony. ... Puritans dismissed themselves from the traditional confinements and formalities of Christianity, which had been building throughout the past 1500 years. ... The main philosophy that was proposed was that Man should not sin, but his sinning was inevitable. ... The generational curse was sin that carried itself through every bloodline and every race. ...

• Word Count: 1501
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Crucible The Crucible is a story which is an understanding of the Salem witch trials, and history implies that innocent people were punished and executed if they were convicted of being a witch. However, witches and witchcraft were often blamed for unknown phenomena, and deeply religious peo...

• Word Count: 293
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Arthur Miller wrote this book to bring back the past of the Salem Witch Trials so that people could see what it was like, or at least read what it was like during that time. ... Hiding sin is also a huge subject matter throughout the book. John Proctor hides his sin for the duration of the book with what he had done and how he had felt about Abigail. Countless people hide their sins because they don't want others to think bad of them or look down on them. ...

• Word Count: 700
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

A life in which doing anything for your own pleasure was considered a sin. The play opens with children dancing in the woods, an obvious sin according to the puritans. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne's grandfather was a judge in the Salem witch trials and Hawthorne was always haunted by his family's past. ... There have been many other examples of hypocrisy in religion in the past as well as the present. ...

• Word Count: 909
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In response, the reverend says, "Thou, too, hast deeply sinned! ... He looks past the reason for her situation and recognizes the good in the adulteress. ... It literally symbolizes adultery, sin, and Hester's struggle to gain self-worth and pride. ... At the end, when many claim that they see it on Dimmesdale's chest, the letter becomes a representation of his sin. ... The scaffold scenes are most important, as it represents the harshness of the Puritan society and the atonement for sin. ...

• Word Count: 1296
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

His one and only sin being Adultery. ... This is an example, of Procter proving to not be either, self- serving or destructive, yet he has sinned in the past, so he has a lot of good deeds to do to redeem himself properly. ...

• Word Count: 653
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Abigail must have been quite the charismatic woman, able to pull together the other girls, even after they had realized their sins. ... No person, past, present or future, is able to completely be without the feeling that they need to get back at someone. ...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

His play makes clea the facts from the past that sinners and guilty people were mistaken for witches in Salem (Bu*censored* 128 -129). ... If a person sinned they had to confess it, regret it, a perform some act of penance. To avoid being hanged many people in The Crucible confessed to sins they did not commit. ... Adultery was one of the worst sins someone could commit. ... It was an atrocious sin for children to even dance, so to avoid punishment they would pretend to be under the spell of the Dev . ...

• Word Count: 11015
• Approx Pages: 44
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School