In the novels, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, both share stories of two people who committed a sin of adultery that both induced a horrible end of their lives. Society has always viewed the sin of adultery as a crime against God and punishable by death , although adultery cannot be punishable by death now, it is still a leading cause in divorces.
Sin is a matter of importance in the 17th century puritan community. The result of Hester not having a husband present causes her to commit the act of adultery and later publicly shamed. In the novel Hester states, “I will not speak!, and my child must seek a heavenly Father; she shall never know an earthly one!”(Hawthorne 64). The townspeople
Sin is a matter of importance in the 17th century puritan community. The result of Hester not having a husband present causes her to commit the act of adultery and later publicly shamed. In the novel Hester states, “I will not speak!, and my child must seek a heavenly Father; she shall never know an earthly one!”(Hawthorne 64). The townspeople