What are some similiarities in characters in The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible?
Hester Prynne and Abigail Williams are similar. They are both very much alone in their lives. Hester is shunned by society and lives on the outskirts of town because of her sin. Abigail is an orphan, and has felt loneliness all of her life. Arthur Dimmesdale and Reverend Parris are similar. One obvious similarity is that they are both ministers in the towns they live in. Also, both ministers are concerned with their image. In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale hides his sin to prevent punishment. He also does not confess because he still wants the Puritans to idolize and venerate him, which they do to an extreme. Parris is also very much like Dimmesdale in The Crucible, because he also cares greatly about public image. He does not want people to think his daughter actually signs the Black Man¹s book, and wants to hide her mysterious illness from the parishioners.
