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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
definite purpose, to remind Americans of the horrible w....
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