Two works of literature that display both aspects of this society very accurately are The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. ... Hawthorne illustrates how insensitive a Puritan society can be t! ... 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. ... In The Scarlet Letter, there is a minister, Dimmesdale, a political! ...

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