When people keep the truth from you, it’s hard. Although it’s hard for them to keep it in. Both Hester Prynne and John Proctor have a secret and telling it could break up or harm many people. But by not saying anything people are still getting hurt. And in the end the truth always comes out, and it does in both of these circumstances. Telling the truth can be a hard thing, but keeping it in can be harder.
In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a secret is kept for around 8 years. Arthur Dimmesdale kept the secret about being Pearl 's father for many years. Hester Kept that very same secret. Dimmesdale was emotionally, psychologically, and eventually physically harmed by this secret from himself and Chillingworth later in this book. Hester was shamed by her friend and by the church, she was cast out of the town. It took an emotional toll on her also. Keeping this secret ultimately harmed both them and Pearl. In this case keeping the secret was a dreadful idea. Hester feels guilty mainly because of the constant reminder of Pearl, the scarlet letter, and from the constant blaming of all the townspeople; which is
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In the same sense in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, keeping their witchcraft a secret was also a poor decision. Nevertheless, it stayed that way. Abigail first kept this a mystery because she would have gotten in trouble. Except she kept adding go to this lie; the other girls followed suit because they feared what would happen to them if they told. If Abigail had told the truth right in the beginning she might not have been killed, and all those other people wouldn 't have been either. Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife, lied about whether she knew about the affair or not. Which caused John to look guilty, and in the end him dying. John Proctor kept the fact that he wasn 't involved with the witchcraft but was involved with Abigail undercover, too. With only a few words, John Proctor could have given Abigail and all of her