The Scarlet Letter, a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Crucible, a playwright written by Arthur miller are good examples that in literature, evil often triumphs but never conquers. Characters from both stories are assumed by their peers to be sinners and therefore people look at them as if they are worth nothing at all. In instances like these the true evil is how people can hurt one another because they believe one went against the church. The evil that lives in the hatred for the sinners will at first be strong in the hearts of the public, but in time the people will learn to love and accept the sinners as equals.
             In the story, The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne learned to take on all negativity in her direction, the evil, and end up accomplishing a successful life. Throughout Hester Prynne's adult life she had been called names referring to her crime of adultery and she had also been accused of being a bad mother. During the beginning characters of the novel showed their evil side by trying to take Pearl, Hester's little girl, out of her custody. Hester was all the time the only person that knew who the father of her baby was, yet never told a soul. Hester was told by the courts that if she told them who the father was, her punishment for adultery would be less, but she never told. The evil in society caused Hester to be an outcast of the town, and she didn't mind. Her love for the father of her baby was stronger than any penalties the court could have given her. She believed in her heart that what they did was not a sin, but an act of love. After some years passed by the people of the town started to look at Hester differently. Some admired her for continuing on, never giving up hope, anyway, the people began to see her as a good citizen again, not just as a sinner.
             Evil and hatred were apart of The Crucible yet also was truth, love, and honor. Abigail, niece of Reverend Paris, started m...