When the topic of a Puritanical society is brought up, most people think of a rigorous, conservative, highly devout
society. While this may have usually been the case, this was not always so. The Puritan society was also known not
to act out of brotherly, Christian love, but to cruelly lash out on those who sinned or were deemed unfit for society.
Two works of literature that display both aspects of this society very accurately are The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. The Scarlet Letter displays a society that treats two people very
differently wh…
