The settings in both The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible are similar in many ways. The Scarlet Letter takes place around the 1640s, as the The Crucible occurs in 1692. ... Hesterlife is spent in complete loneliness because of the way the town treats her. ... In The Scarlet Letter, there is a minister, Dimmesdale, a political! ... However, more parishoners like Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter than Parris in The Crucible. ...

• Word Count: 1327
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This combination advocates the concept that the Puritan society was a community based on complete social and governmental power over its followers. ... The conjoining of church and state was not as evident within The Scarlet Letter but instead displays the inability to perfect human nature regardless of any assistance given by a created lifestyle such as Puritanism. ... Sin, rather than power, is the basis of The Scarlet Letter and donates to the message that perfection is not achievable by a set of rules that is ever created by man. ... The overall differences between The Crucible and...

• Word Count: 710
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The following pages will examine the way sin affected the Puritan Community in the Scarlet Letter. ... Hawthorne's sensitivity to guilt is clearly present in the Scarlet Letter, as well as some of his other works. ... It wasn't until the publication of his novel The Scarlet Letter in 1850 that Hawthorne became a well-known writer. ... In Hawthorne's remembered novel, The Scarlet Letter, The community along with Hester Pryne, Author Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingsworth all commit a crime; only the people commit sin. ... The town first requires Hester to wear the scarlet lette...

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School