Essay Comparing The Crucible And The Scarlet Letter
An American Tragedy: Comparing "The Crucible" and "The Scarlet Letter"
by: Jamie Newlands
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 witch trials that took place in Salem, even before the American Revolution was a thought. It served as a tool to warn against the same thing …show more content…
Although in both works, forbidden love is absolutely central to the plot, the actual concrete similarities beyond that are few. If these two works could be associated, one could associate any two works with a dead guy at the end and love society won't allow in the middle. For example, the musical
West Side Story, The tragic hero is Tony, a young man who has hated Puerto
Ricans his whole life, until Maria. They meet, fall in love and plan a life together all in two nights, but alas Tony's forbidden love for Maria and his loyalty to his friend, Riff, is the cause of his own demise. What person would associate this story with The Scarlet Letter? The similarities between the two are just the same as those between The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter. Both
West Side Story and The Scarlet Letter have a tragic hero, as well as a climactic ending where the reader (or the auditor) actually thinks things may go as planned. But, in the end the hero dies and the heroin is left alone. No one would ever think to associate a musical with such an icon in
by: Jamie Newlands
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 witch trials that took place in Salem, even before the American Revolution was a thought. It served as a tool to warn against the same thing …show more content…
Although in both works, forbidden love is absolutely central to the plot, the actual concrete similarities beyond that are few. If these two works could be associated, one could associate any two works with a dead guy at the end and love society won't allow in the middle. For example, the musical
West Side Story, The tragic hero is Tony, a young man who has hated Puerto
Ricans his whole life, until Maria. They meet, fall in love and plan a life together all in two nights, but alas Tony's forbidden love for Maria and his loyalty to his friend, Riff, is the cause of his own demise. What person would associate this story with The Scarlet Letter? The similarities between the two are just the same as those between The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter. Both
West Side Story and The Scarlet Letter have a tragic hero, as well as a climactic ending where the reader (or the auditor) actually thinks things may go as planned. But, in the end the hero dies and the heroin is left alone. No one would ever think to associate a musical with such an icon in