"No one can really know what their lives were like. They had no novelists - and would not have permitted any to read a novel if one were handy. Their creed forbade anything resembling a theater or "vain enjoyment." They did not celebrate Christmas, and a holiday from work meant only that they must concentrate even more upon prayer." (138)
In this quote from the Crucible, we can see that religion was a very big part in their culture. The people living in the time period when the Crucible was taken place thought that work and religion were the two most important thing in everyone's lives. When they said children went to play, they meant they went to pray. Praying and going to church were the enjoyment of their lives. This is similar to the people in the Scarlet Letter because in the Scarlet Letter, the people cared a lot about religion too. They believed that when you committed a crime, its not only a bad thing to do, but you are committing the crime to God. And that is very very bad. When Hester committed adultery, they believed that she had committed a sin. We can also see that they respect their religion leaders a lot from the way people treated Mr. Dimmesdale. But the difference we can see in this quote between the Crucible and the Scarlet Letter is that in the Crucible it seems more depressing and sad and that people really didn't do anything other than praying and working. But in the Scarlet Letter, people had more fun and sounded more relaxing.
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