The storys The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter both have society and .
environmental circumstances that drives the characters to behave how they do. The characters .
John Proctor, Hester Pryne, and Arthur Dimmesdale are characters who are influenced by their .
storys society or environment exposure. An environmental influence or condition can effect a .
person either by forcing the person to exist in an unusual way of life or the person is used to it .
and finds no problem with that way of being. In the case of a society pressuring or influence, .
other peoples thoughts about the way a person is can effect the way they will act to fit in or .
follow what is beleived to be the right way of life.
The case with John Proctor seems to be based on both environment and .
society. John is a man of pride and he wont do what is wrong in his mind. For example, when .
he faces the judges about the witch craft accusations he refuses to comply to their need to .
persist on beleiving witch craft is true. But soon his mind is changed because of the environment .
he is facing. John thinks that it would be dangerous for the people to die without reason and .
decides to falsely confess to witch craft so that maybe others will follow and be saved from the .
lies of the judges.
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. Society cast her out as if she were not human and she suffered for it because she .
beleived it was not fit to commit adultry because society says it is a sin. She did not find her .
husband sufficient for love because of his age and decided that Arthur was the man for her. The .
town saw the child she had as a symbol of her sin as well as the scarlet letter she wore upon her .
breast. That making her want Arthur to be in the picture with her so they can be as a family. .
The fact of it being known that a minister should not have sexual relations let alone adultry was .