Scarlett Letter Vs Crucible

“ I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of this year”, this was part of a quote from Van Doren during a senate proceeding. In the scarlet letter and the crucible characters have lies buried within them that have begun to rot. Such as john proctor you know that he regrets his infidelity and he would turn back the hand of time, by his love for hi wife, he knew over time lust could never conquer pure love. Hester lived with a sin till the end of her mortal wife, though at some point the letter could be taken off its mark was still left in her heart. Hester not once makes a remark about wanting to turn back time, she loves pearl but the fact of the matter is, she hated her sin, not the result from it (being a child), but the sin of adultery itself.

“In a sense I was like a child who refuses to a fact and hopes it will go away” this said by Van Dorin stating his general feelings as to what he had done and his feelings afterward. John proctor battled with it and could never confess only but to his wife, then when it came donw to the point at which, it would have been convenient that he has told a priest it is too late, Proctor’s wife Elisabeth is asked if john had had an affair with Abigail she replys “no” this meant to protect john only condemned him, his sin did not go away, and his lack of a confession caught up with him, faster then his life had begun.

In both the scarlet letter and