In the literary works The Crucible by Arthur Miller, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton there are many parallel characters. In all of these works the main characters are driven by love, hate and vengeance. Although initially victims themselves Abigail Williams, Zeena Pierce, and Robert Chillingworth become victimizers due to their manipulative and vengeful natures, which ultimately leads to their downfalls. Zeena, Chillingworth and Abigail are originally victims after …showed first 75 words of 843 total…

…showed last 75 words of 843 total…were victims themselves, their actions were driven by hate unlike the love driven actions of their victims. Rather than punishing their spouses and lovers in order to obtain justice, they used their evil and manipulative natures to ruin them. Because of their selfish intentions to hurt others in order to achieve their goals Zeena, Chillingworth and Abigail, not only displayed how truly evil they were, but their actions resulted in their own downfalls as well.