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Essay Archive - An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" and "The Scarlet Letter"
An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" and "The Scarlet Letter"
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 doing so, but with such different pieces of work, this
is hardly a question that can be answered.
Miller's the Crucible was written in the nineteen-fifties, with a
defin....
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