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Comparing Society And Government In The Scarlet Letter And Les Miserables

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“It is dangerous to be right, when society is wrong” (Voltaire). The 18th Century novel featuring the Puritan Society of Boston, Massachusetts, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the movie, Les Miserables, set during the French Revolution in the late 1700s, directed by Tom Hooper, have many parallels despite taking place at different time periods, locations, and settings. In each story, the society and government is overly restrictive which negatively impacts the ethos of the citizens, making resistance to any unfair law or order a daunting and harrowing task. Also the main characters are very similar as well; the leading protagonist and antagonist for each are very uniform in ideals and actions committed. In The Scarlet Letter,
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