Scarlett Letter Vs Crucible

" I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of this year", this was part of a quote from Van Doren during a senate proceeding. In the scarlet letter and the crucible characters have lies buried within them that have begun to rot. Such as john proctor you know that he regrets his infidelity and he would turn back the hand of time, by his love for hi wife, he knew over time lust could never conquer pure love. Hester lived with a sin till the end of her mortal wife, though at some point the letter could be taken off its mark was still left in her heart. Hester not once makes a remark about wanting to turn back time, she loves pearl but the fact of the matter is, she hated her sin, not the result from it (being a child), but the sin of adultery itself.

"In a sense I was like a child who refuses to a fact and hopes it will go away" this said by Van Dorin stating his general feelings as to what he had done and his feelings afterward. John proctor battled with it and could never confess only but to his wife, then when it came donw to the point at which, it would have been convenient that he has told a priest it is too late, Proctor's wife Elisabeth is asked if john had had an affair with Abigail she replys "no" this meant to protect john only condemned him, his sin did not go away, and his lack of a confession caught up with him, faster then his life had begun.

In both the scarlet letter and the crucible, the underlying fact of lies and deception is rampant throughout. The character sin these novels make lies live lies and even bath in lies simply for the basis of not being caught. Then like the characters in these novels whether it be, being a scared teenage girl accusing innocent towns folk of horrid crimes simply because you didn't want to get blamed yourself, or committing a sin and holding it in for the purpose of someone's reputation, all lies are the same, the quote from the quiz shows just shows that in the end when it is time for judge meant everything will catch up, and a lie is a lie, no matter what you say. You can live a lie and live in its shadow, even play the part of something else, but you yourself will always know and until you can, "know thyself" as Socrates once said, you'll never be able to truly be happy.

To live a lie is to ever have lived at all.