Scarlet Witch

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the protagonists are accused of unspeakable crimes in Puritan New England ruining their reputations. Although the reason for punishment may differ, the protagonists, John Proctor and Hester Prynne, lost something in common: their reputation. Their acceptance of their punishment shows the importance of their reputation, the corruption of their communities, and the fear of judgment by their peers. The Scarlet…

It tells the story of Hester Prynne , a young woman accused of adultery. As a punishment for this, she was forced to stand in the town scaffold, in front of of the whole toenspeople, with a scarlet letter "A" on her breast. Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", aside from being a romance novel, is also a Historical-Fiction. A Historical novel is set in an earlier historical period that features a plot shaped by historical circumstances. The novel begins with an account of how the book was…

In the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller and “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne there are many common themes expressed. The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in a colonial Puritan society. It shows the hysteria that took place in 1692 that ultimately led to the Salem Witch Trials. Similarly, the Scarlet letter also takes place in a Puritan society. It tells the story of a young woman who committed the sin of adultery but learns to cope with punishments. Throughout the…

In the novel The Scarlet Letter, an examination of the reaction to sin in Puritan society, Nathaniel Hawthorne, born in Salem, Massachusetts with powerful Puritan ancestors presents significance in the scaffold and the scarlet letter, implication in Hester’s occupation and charitable gestures, and the development of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Governor Bellingham in order to expose the hypocrisy of Puritanism. The novel is set in seventeenth century Boston, then known as Massachusetts Bay…

Salem Witch Trials in 1692. The trials reveal the Puritan religion and community to be perilous force. Nathaniel Hawthorne is also the dark romantic author behind the literary classic, The Scarlet Letter. The Scarlet Letter is a novel that serves as a commentary on Puritan beliefs. Puritanism in The Scarlet Letter is unjust and extremely flawed compared to the popular religion of Catholicism. Although Puritans are thought to be sinless and constantly repenting, the characters in The Scarlet…

The Puritan colonies in America were characterized by rigid standards in both the church and state. They had to be harsh and possess perseverance in order to survive in the New World. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter has preserved in literature a certain perspective as to the harsh Puritan justice and lives we believed them to have lived out. While Hawthorne includes historical details and settings in his book, he does take liberties in his fictional story of the justice system and…

are “The Crucible”, and “The Scarlet Letter”. Both of these stories give a similar portrayal of the Puritans, the freedom that can be won - or lost - by a symbol, and shows how sin, whether it be lying or adultery, can destroy you. However, these narratives also differ in many ways showing the differences in the roles of ministers in a community, how the community evidenced sin, and what the gender of convicted and 'convictor ' was. “The Crucible” and “The Scarlet Letter” show the 'evil '…

judges that he and Abigail had actually committed adultery. On page 1207 in Act 3 he explains this to the judge, “I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of good name- you will believe me.” The importance of reputation also applies in The Scarlet Letter. When Hester and her husband speak for the first time since the adultery had taken place he told he care more about his reputation. Her husband had wanted revenge and when Hester asked why he didn’t cast her off because he could as…

Romantic writers focused on the past, stressed imagination and conveyed a sense of optimism (28). “Hawthorne incorporated Romanticism in The Scarlet Letter through his use of mysterious character and a historical setting” (29). He used the mystery of mistress Hibbins’s supernatural knowledge and her relation with the Black Man in the forest (29). The Scarlet letter by Hawthorne was not as optimistic as other Romantic writers because of his use of guilt from the past of Puritans. He wants us to…

The Scarlet Letter, an overview of the Puritans taken up and treated by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet letter is a Gothic Romantic novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850. The novel is a historical fiction in a historical setting Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, of the 17th Century depicting a story of a woman named Hester Prynne who gives birth to an illegitimate child and her punishment for her sin. According to the views of Nathaniel Hawthorne on the Puritan society, he portrayed…