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A five page paper which compares the socio-cultural and religious settings in Miller’s The Crucible and Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and demonstrates the importance of these backgrounds to the development of the narratives and the interaction of the main characters. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: JL5_JL2Cruc.rtf
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There are a
number of similarities between the settings of Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter and Millers The Crucible, not least of which is the Puritan social environment in which the action of the
narratives takes place. Both Hawthorne and Miller were critical of the social and religious conventions of Puritanism, and the way in which such conventions constrained free thinking and behaviour.
In The Crucible, for instance, even
though Abigails actions are not presented as particularly ethical, her comments about her early life make it clear that the families who have been responsible for her upbringing have adopted
something of a double standard. They have expected her to behave in the modest and subservient way which is usual for Puritan women, but because she is a foster-child, have
neglected to train her in this mode of behaviour; it is evident that she has been treated primarily as a servant rather than as a member of the family. Seeing
no advantages in conforming to the Puritan ideals, she has therefore turned to what might be seen as a more natural form of behaviour, especially in regard to her sexuality.
Hester Prynne is also a victim
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