Witches R Ours

Burn and die you witch! was probably one of the phrases constantly heard after a witch hunt. Witch hunts, which are prime examples of ignorance and murder, are brilliantly portrayed in the Scarlet Letter and The Crucible. . Two different novels that go into detail about some of the different aspects of the Puritan people are The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Minister s Black Veil , although not set in Puritan times, expressed the same theme of the fear of the unknown. The fear of the unknown was evident in The Minister s Black Veil as the townspeople literally despised Reverend Hooper for the black veil that was hanging in his forehead without even knowing the reason of the presence of the black veil. Being the town s heathen, Hester was constantly humiliated; her burden was further magnified when she conceived. In The Crucible, despite his apparent greed in the beginning, John Proctor tried everything to save his wife, Elizabeth, fr...