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        Two American authors, of two distinctly different time periods had one very similar task, to turn a piece of American History into a believable tragedy. Arthur Miller with The Crucible and Nathaniel Hawthorne with The Scarlet Letter. Perhaps one might wonder which author did a better job in doing so, but with such different pieces of work, this is hardly a question that can be answered.         Miller's the Crucible was written in the nineteen-fifties, with …

…the setting is as juvenile as saying two people must be twins since they are wearing the same sweater.         Though both fine pieces, the Crucible and the Scarlet Letter are not comparable beyond a very vague look at the settings and plot skeletons of the two. One a drama, the other a romance novel. One written almost a century before the other. One might refrain from saying they are similar beyond a very basic level.