Comparing The Scarlet Letter to The Crucible Adultery, betrayal, promiscuity, subterfuge, and intrigue, all of which would make an excellent coming attraction on the Hollywood scene and probably a pretty good book. Add narration, mass-hysteria and witch trials and the end result would be The Crucible, but if you added Puritan ideals and writing styles, making it long, drawn out, tedious, wearisome, sleep inducing, insipidly asinine, and the end result is The Scarlet Letter. They …showed first 75 words of 1585 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1585 total…theocratic church/courts of the late 1600's. Another thing to consider is that our Declaration of Independence and our freedom states that we have freedom of religion. Partly because today the church and state are not combined, sins, such as adultery, are taken much lightly today than in the time of The Scarlet Letter. One thing that can be learned from these two books is that pride is sometimes the most essential thing in life.