Similarities Between The Crucible And Modern Day Today

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Sins are Forever with You
The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel, are both relatable to modern day today. Both the novel and play are strict about their religion, so when it came to doing something they thought was bad, they had to decide if it will of against their will. Many events that happened in both novels still occur today. These events may happen today, but hey are not as hash as they were. In The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter, we see humiliation, guilt, and punishment, and the moral and psychological aspects determine why we still see it in the modern day today.
We see humiliation everywhere we are, no matter how big or how small that problem is, we will be humiliated. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne …show more content…

People are guilty of sining, and some can not live with the fact that they have sinned. In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale committed a sin of adultery, and he di not confess to anybody. He did not confess because he did not want to have the label as a sinner. He finally confessed in front of the people with Hester and Pearl next to him. He said, “The law we broke!-the sin here so awfully revealed! I fear! It may be, that, when we forgot our God”(229). He stated this because he was trying to say that they sinned. He felt guilty, and his guilt was eating him up for seven years, so he needed to confess in order to feel relieved. John Proctor also felt guilty of sinning when he had an affair with Abigail. He did not want anything to do with her, but she finally convinced him. He feels guilty when he tells Elizabeth “God in Heaven, what is John Proctor? I think it is honest, I think so; I am no saint.”(138). He feels guilty that he says that he is no saint because he sinned. He does not want to feel guilty, so he confesses. When he confesses, he does not want his name to be revealed, and he is saying that “he cannot have another in [his] life. Because I lie and sign myself lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”(143). He cannot live with the fact that he has sinned, so he confessed to the people. In today’s society, many people commit sins. Many do not really …show more content…

Some are harsher than others, but we get punished for sinning no matter what. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester got punished for committing adultery. Her punishment was to stand on the scaffold for three hours holding Pearl and the ‘A’ on her chest. The people would humiliate her because of her sin. Hester’s punishment was not as harsh, but standing in front of everyone is embarrassing. Dimmesdale, Pearls father, confesses that he i the father. Everybody is surprised about the new news that he says that God has punished him “by giving[him] this burning torture to bear upon [his] breast! By bringing [him] hither, to die this death… He will be done! Farwell”(229). His punishment was not as harsh as Hester’s, but Hester’s was worse because people saw the Scarlet Letter, unlike Dimmesdale. He knew that he committed the sin, so he was fine with the punishment they gave him. He then dies and leaves Hester and Pearl alone because he could not live with he guilt of sinning. In The Crucible Proctor’s sin lead to punishment. Danforth interrogated him and was asking him if he was lying about his confession: : I will not accept it [if it is a lie]” (143). Since Proctor ripped the paper, they punished him by hanging him. His punishment was to be hung in front of the people. Not only did he suffer but so did Elizabeth, his wife. She had nothing to do with this, but even she got punished because they took her husband away from her. There are

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