An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" And "The Scarlet Letter"
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Two American authors, of two distinctly different time periods had
one very similar task, to turn a piece of American History into a
believable tragedy. Arthur Miller with The Crucible and Nathaniel
Hawthorne with The Scarlet Letter. Perhaps one might wonder which author
did a better job in doin ....
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.... eighteen hundreds,
with no other purpose but for Hawthorne to write a novel. Hawthorne
perhaps chose this dark subject to convey his contempt for Puritanism. He
was a man preoccupied with the hidden sin which is illustrated in not only
the Scarlet Letter, but also in The Minister's Black Veil. One might even
say that Hawthorne's ancestry (Hathorne) is what he might consider his own
"Pearl", and this is why he changed his name.
Like Miller's the Crucible, The Scarlet Letter takes pla ....
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