Similarities Between The Scarlet Letter And The Crucible

This two topics The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible are two literary words. The Scarlet Letter is nonfiction, however, The Crucible is drama along with a partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials. Both stories focused in the puritanism and arousing. “In the early severity of the puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn” (Hawthorne). That text foreshadows how strict people are from The Scarlet Letter. “The rumor of witchcraft is all about; I think you’d best go down and deny it yourself” (Miller). That statement is the evidence of how the people gossip and how strict they are about all this and also about unnatural activities and breaking law in that age of time.
In The Scarlet Letters the main character committed a sin. The punishment for the sin she committed was to wear a scarlet letter ‘A’ which is a symbol of adultery for a long time. People anathematize

her. “At the very least, they should have put the board of a hot iron on Hester Prynne's forehead” (Hawthorne). The quote displays how cruel people are in that city also how judgmental they are. It would be unimaginable for anyone from 21century to live in that kind of society.
In The Crucible witchcraft is the main issue.

When the two character of the story Betty Parris and Abigail Williams were doing some suspicious activity one day before Betty got sick. Her dad Reverend Parris saw them doing strange things in the forest. Parris think it's a witch activity so does Sushana when she says this is unnatural but parris denies it and tells sushana to not say any word about what happened earlier. Parris is also concern about this reputation. “Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character”(Miller). The text describes what can happen to him if people in society find out about it. Additionally he also describes how people can bring him down and also how hard he had worked to get in that position. In my point of view, Abigail is probably hiding something and it feels like a part is missing in the story or she’s not hiding anything and parris is just forcing her to admit that something was going

on.
The Scarlet letter and The Crucible both were written in the 17th century and in both of the story a girl is being cited as a bad person and is arraigned for doing something. In The Scarlet Letter the girl is punished in front of all the society and by reading the story it feels like people like to watch those stuff and never go against it. However, in The Crucible Abigail is being cited and they were not sure about what happened and a part was missing felt like the part of a story is missing or Abigail is hiding something. Both stories was somehow related to each other.