"Abigail. I know how you clutched my back behind
your house and sweated like a stallion whenever
I come near! Or did I dream that? It’s she put me
out, you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face
when she put me out, and you loved me then and
you do now!"(149)
It relates to The Scarlet Letter because it's adultery. In The Scarlet Letter Heaster and Demmisdale had committed adultry but Demmisdale was to coward to admit. He let Hester bare all the charges and suffer from the isolation of the townspeople. In The Crucible, Abigail said Proctor loved her even though he already had a wife. But Proctor was not dare to admit it because they live in a society that is stricter than the society in The Scarlet Letter. In the Salem society, they might be punished far more severly when charged as committing adultery.
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