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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller, both authors portray Puritans as a repressive and socially constrictive society. ...
In The Scarlet Letter, Salem, Massachusetts is exemplified as harsh and judgmental. ... Hawthorne uses references to the scaffolding to add emphasis on the insensitive puritan town, “At the scaffolding…A penalty which in our days would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself” (47). ...
In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Miller uses Parris to show the austerity of the society in The Crucible. ... The Puritan society in The Crucible is a society with severe judgments of everyday actions. ...
In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, life appears rigid and controlled. ...
In The Crucible the forest also becomes a place where the emotions that are repressed by the society can be liberated. ... Miller reveals the puritan idea of sinful in small things such as dancing when Parris says, ”What shall I say to them? ... Their remorse for their actions and acceptance of all chastisement reveals that they embrace the ideals and morals of their society as made apparent when Prynne says, “I have thought of death…have prayed for it, were it fit that such as I should pray for any thing” (Hawthorne 67). The main character in The Crucible, Proctor, shows his contrition when he states “A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now” (Miller III,i).
Approximate Word count = 1264
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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