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Crucible 4

Hester Prynne, Nathanial Hawthorne's character from his novel, The
Scarlet Letter, and Abigail Williams, from "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller,
have both committed a crime and they are both hated by their societies.
However, there are also differences between the two characters. Hester
Prynne is the more respectable Puritan woman of the two because she did
not commit as many sins as Abigail did, she was not as secretive about it,
and her actions only affected herself and her child.
Hester did sin horribly but it was not comparable to Abigail's many
sins. The sins that Abigail were guilty of were wrath, avarice, lust, and envy,
while Hester only committed lust. Hester's adulterous ...

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Hester was not secretive about committing her crime as Abigail was.
Abigail is even described as "an orphan with an endless capacity for
dissembling" (page 9). This proves that she tried to cover up her actions.
Hester did not try to hide the fact from the townspeople that she was
pregnant; she only tried to conceal the identity of the father of her baby.
Abigail, on the other hand, made sure that the citizens of Salem did not find
out that she and her friends had been lying when they accused many
innocent people of witchcraft. She even went as far as to threaten John
Proctor by telling him that if he told, she would have him and his wife
hanged. She also threatened her friends many times throughout the novel.
At one point, she said "Let any of you breathe a word about the other things,
and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a
pointy reckoning that will shudder you" (page 20). If Abigail's friends told
the truth, she would ...

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Added: 11/25/2007 01:00:52 AM
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