Crucible 4

Trials of Her Sins         Hester Prynne, Nathanial Hawthornes character from his novel, The Scarlet Letter, and Abigail Williams, from The Crucible by Arthur Miller, have twain committed a crime and they are both detested by their societies.

However, there are also differences between the dickens 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 around it, and her actions only affected herself and her child.

        Hester did sin dreadfully but it was not comparable to Abigails many sins. The sins that Abigail were guilty of were wrath, avarice, lust, and envy, piece of music Hester only committed lust. Hesters adulterous manner was considered one of the whip sins of the Puritan women. Although that was an awful sin to have committed, Abigail committed a sin of the same kind and more. Abigail and Hester both knew that what they did was wrong. Hester took the blame and did not lie about what happened. Abigail lied and made her friends lie reasonable so she would not get in trouble for her sin. Abigails behavior and involvement of others created a more complex reason to try on her as less respectable of the two.

        Hester was not secretive about committing her crime as Abigail was.

Abigail is even described as an orphan with an endless capacity for dissembling (page 9). This proves that she tried to cover up her actions.

Hester did not try to hide the fact from the towns hatful that she was significant; she only tried to conceal the identity of the father of her baby.

Abigail, on the other hand, made sure that the citizens of Salem did not insure out that she and her friends had been lying when they accused many innocent people of witchcraft. She even went as far as to threaten conjuring trick Proctor by telling him that if...

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