In this essay, I will compare and contrast The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible in themes relating to both. ... Thus it becomes related to Nathaniel Hawthorne's book whose entire plot revolves around the sin of adultery. ... Throughout the span of The Scarlet Letter Dimmesdale has to suffer, egged on by Chillingworth, over his terrible sin of adultery. ... All the themes discussed in this essay are very important points in the plots of both the play and novel. The wilderness and town, the human conscience and adultery, at least in The Scarlet Letter, were critical to the structure...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 646
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate