Comparing Yin And Yang In Crucible And Scarlet Letter

Yin and Yang are the complete opposites. One is white, the other is black. One symbolizes Heaven, while the other symbolizes Hell. While the two are completely different, both Yin and Yang are similar in so many ways. Both of the pendants offer hope and reason to life. Yin and Yang present the idea of balance within our everyday routines (Cartwright, Mark). In life, there are many examples of Yin's to Yang’s. A perfect example of similarities being intertwined with differences, falls in the works of Arthur Miller’s Crucible and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter. One way that Crucible and Scarlet Letter are so similar, is that of their settings. Both Crucible and Scarlet Letter are set in Massachusetts around the 1600-1700 time period. The Scarlet Letter is set in a time period in which the sins taught by the Puritans were just as important and weighted as the demands of the law. Similarly, Crucible is set during a time that the sin of witchcraft was not only punishable on religious grounds, but lawful as well. During this time period, the Salem witch trials were roaring. In an excerpt from Douglas Linder’s The Witchcraft Trials in Salem: A Commentary, it is said, “From June
The two literary pieces tell about the lives of someone who had an affair, they were then convicted of this crime, and to wrap it all up the lover then tries to seek revenge and fails. In Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail and John have an affair; In Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, Hester and Dimmesdale have an affair that results in a child. In Crucible, Abigail tries to get the wife out of the picture so it can be herself with John and in Scarlet Letter, Chillingworth tries to get Dimmesdale to pay for what happened between his wife and himself. While both works end with the death of one of the main characters, neither of the two revenge seekers found the answers they had originally went searching