Considering The Crucible and The Scarlett Letter, one may notice many similarities and differences. However, I have found more differences than similarities while comparing the two. The Crucible was a historical play based on events of the Salem witchcraft trial while The Scarlett Letter was based on a girl who committed adultery. The Crucible takes place in the small Puritan Village in the colony of Massachusetts in 1692. The Scarlet Letter takes place in the Puritan …showed first 75 words of 281 total…

…showed last 75 words of 281 total…deviant from their thoughts, laws, and standards. The witchcraft trials grew out of the particular moral system of the Puritans, which promoted interference in people’s affairs as well as a repressive code of conduct that frowned on any diversion from normal behavior. In The Crucible anyone who committed such acts as adultery was hanged. However in The Scarlett Letter they didn’t hang Hester or Pearl’s father but normally they would be hanged.