Power Of Women In The Crucible By Arthur Miller And The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Power for women is not much back in the 1600s. Women had no power at all in the government, and as natural they find power in other effects. A lot of them did it in marriage. In the works, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrated the control of women in the Puritan times. Even though in both The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, women have less power in the society than men, in The Crucible women have a better say in the action of the society than the women in The Scarlet Letter.
Similarity in the playwright The Crucible by Arthur Miller and the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the power that women have power in marriage. For women marriage

In The Crucible the women can leave the church and court if she want to or thing that what the head of the church or court are doing something they don’t agree with wrong. The people did this when the court started to execute people for saying they were not witches (The Crucible). However, The Scarlet Letter the women just had to stay or get in trouble. Hester couldn’t good anywhere, but outside the village because she had no choice. The novel showed she was pushed outside of the society and she could not leave because she had no money. Before that, she also had to stand at the scaffolding and stay there to be humiliated. From the novel, it says,
“Hester Prynne might have repaid them all with a bitter and disdainful smile. But, under the leaden infliction which it was her doom to endure, she felt, at moments, as if she must needs shriek out with the full power of her lungs, and cast herself from the scaffold down upon the ground, or else go mad at once”(Hawthorne

The most troubling problem that women have had is having a choice, and people have fought for it for centuries. This is show through both of the plots, but they are different in the level the women have. With that, The Crucible shows several time that women and men talk on the same level. A women can also feely yell at a man, and voice her feelings. They can also say yes or no on their own. This is show when John Proctor’s wife is able to choose to sign or not to sign a paper on confession (The Crucible). On the other hand, The Scarlet Letter has women needing to just to stand there and take everything. Hester had no choice on where she was going in life, and who she will married. She was forced to marry Chillingworth, and then set off to a town in Boston. She was talked about in a bad manner because her husband left her in the town alone. According to the