“If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny.” Said by Kathleen Kent In the Heretic's Daughter. People in order to be free need to go through a struggle or as said in the quote “sacrifice in equal measure.” In this case Tyranny is a struggle with both, The Crucible and The Heretic's Daughter. Within the book The Crucible By Arthur Miller and The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent they share similar themes involving struggles. Intolerance, Tyranny and hysteria all are apart of both of these books and are all present themes in both The Crucible and The Heretic's Daughter. The unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that …show more content…
In some cases, an individual can have intolerance for another, but a group of people that are intolerant over one thing is a very destructive thing. An example of the relations of intolerance between both books is the fact that a very small amount of people in Salem accept the fact that there may be witches among them. The books take place in a town that the people would burn the men and women accused of being a witch. That shows the Intolerance the people have towards witches and these books demonstrate the amount of danger certain people can get in. John Proctor says these lines at the end of the play, when he is wrestling with his conscience over whether to confess to witchcraft and to save himself from the gallows. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live