Living under a strict society where the system and all of its components were based on God, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Judge Danforth from Arthur Miller's The Crucible were bound to suffer from the Puritan values which they believed in during the Puritan era. After thoroughly analyzing both Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller's The Crucible, it is evident that Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Judge Danforth were …showed first 75 words of 1146 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1146 total…politic and the statute of God as the law. These morals still exist today in everyday life. The government, people in Hollywood, and other notable people hide their mistakes from the public for the sake of their reputation. Homosexuality is discriminated by those who are highly religious and believe with everything stated in the Bible. No matter how far we maybe chronologically separated from the Puritan era, the ethics continue to thrive in modern-day society.