On the other hand, The Scarlet Letter was an old-fashion, fiction novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... In The Crucible, as well as in the Scarlet Letter both groups of people were told to abide by certain rules of the Puritans. ... Although The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter consist of numerous similarities, it had a few differences, as well. ... The Scarlet Letter is a fiction story of Hester and the scarlet A; there was no such thing as it. ... Despite the fact that The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible are very controversial books they have made a difference in the world. ...

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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 Crucible uses this power in a more apparent fashion by personifying this necessity for power through Reverend Parris, while The Scarlet Letter explains the inabilities of these powers, which in tu...

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The Scarlet Letter can be considered a satire of Puritan beliefs because the book is full of angry people who mock and ridicule the unfortunate one who bears the letter "A" on her chest. ... The Puritan community is said to be one of strict and proper manner though when one bearing the scarlet "A" on their chest was to walk through the town, they were pointed and taunted at, as though they were not a human being but of some sort of horrifying existence. The Scarlet Letter could have been written to show others of Puritan ways and beliefs but one who reads this would go on believing th...

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In this essay, I will compare and contrast The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible in themes relating to both. ... Throughout the span of The Scarlet Letter Dimmesdale has to suffer, egged on by Chillingworth, over his terrible sin of adultery. ... The wilderness and town, the human conscience and adultery, at least in The Scarlet Letter, were critical to the structure of the novels and made the foci clear and concise. ...

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Nature and Envoronment The storys The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter both have society and environmental circumstances that drives the characters to behave how they do. ... From what I see, Hester Pryne had a conflict mostly from society based on the way the town felt about her child and commitment of the sin she wears the scarlet letter for, adultry. ... The town saw the child she had as a symbol of her sin as well as the scarlet letter she wore upon her breast. ... Arthur Dimmesdale, the reverend in The Scarlet Letter, is pressured that being a minister is bad w...

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Hawthorne's Views of the Puritan Culture "The principal action of The Scarlet Letter occurs in the Boston of 1640's, a somber, gray, violently moral community founded as a kind of Puritan utopia." ... Clearly representing the Puritans in a positive light was not a very prominent thought in Hawthorne's mind when he was writing The Scarlet Letter. ...

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Through out Scarlet Letter we see transference of guilt, and with that comes redemption from sin. ... Prynne is to wear a red scarlet letter, the letter A. ... The scarlet letter stands out because everyone wears black. gray or very dark colors. ... Hawthorne redeems his guilt by writing the Scarlet Letter. ... Hawthorne has a number of themes in the Scarlet Letter, but the most significant are guilt, alienation and redemption. ...

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Hawthorne's Views of the Puritan Culture "The principal action of The Scarlet Letter occurs in the Boston of 1640's, a somber, gray, violently moral community founded as a kind of Puritan utopia." ... Clearly representing the Puritans in a positive light was not a very prominent thought in Hawthorne's mind when he was writing The Scarlet Letter. ...

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In The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance Hawthorne exhibits his themes of evil, moral responsibility, and crime and romance, and proves that anyone is capable of falling from grace, as humans are born with an evil nature. ... After college, It was during his time of unemployment that Hawthorne returned to a career of writing and published The Scarlet Letter in 1850. The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne's master opus, "a genuine native romance" (Whipple, 3) full of subtle terror and particularly appealing remains one of the most well-received America...

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Hester prynne comes from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. ... The scarlet letter is an "A" embroidered on Hester's clothes with gold thread, which signifies that she is an adulterer. ... The reason for her scarlet letter has faded. ...

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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller portray characters committing sins throughout the novel. ... John Proctor, a farmer in The Crucible, and Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister in The Scarlet Letter, both have similar experiences with adultery, but Proctor seems to approach his sin in a more honorable manner than Dimmesdale. ...

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