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innocent people who were hanged
Title: innocent people who were hanged
Category: Literature / English
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innocent people who were hanged
Trials of Her Sins
Hester Prynne, Nathanial Hawthorne's character from his novel, The
Scarlet Letter, and Abigail Williams, from "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller,
have both committed a crime and they are both hated by their societies.
However, there are also differences between the two characters. Hester
Prynne is the more respectable Puritan woman of the two because she did
not commit as many sins as Abigail did, she was not as secretive about it,
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woman because of their sins, but of the two, Hester should be considered
more honorable. If these women acted today as they did 300 years ago, they
would be judged much differently. No one would be hanged, no one would
have to suffer public humiliation, and it probably would not matter if the
whole town knew about it. Regardless of the time era, the trial of Hester's
sins compared to Abigail's made her more respectable.
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