Arthur Miller's The Crucible best illustrates this hypocritical attraction-abhorrence nature of the Puritans. ... This novel does not deal so much with witches as it does with the Black Man, which "is a traditional American name for the Devil."44 In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne commits adultery with Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. ... Prynne, her presumed-dead husband, returns to discover all of this.45 Now called Roger Chillingworth to hide his identity, he sinks to a new low as he tortures Dimmesdale by keeping him alive to suffer his guilt and shame.46 Chillingworth become...

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