quote from The Cruicible

"I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!" (150)

Abigail's situation, seem in this quote, is similar to that of Hester because they both committed adultery and they both have the feelings for those men. In the Scarlet Letter Hester obviously has some kind of attachment to Dimmesdale. When they were in the minister's house she asked the minister to defend her, and in the later part when they meet each other in the woods the tone of their conversation sends out an atmosphere that an intimate relationship would have. In this quote, such feeling is conveyed rather directly through words such as " took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart."