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 …showed first 75 words of 642 total…

…showed last 75 words of 642 total…Evil may have killed the people wrongfully accused of witchcraft, but love was always there ready to take their souls after they were done on earth. In literature, evil often triumphs but never conquers. That means in the end evil will not control a person, but it is the person who has the choice of allowing the evil to destroy their spirit or the person has the choice of destroying the evil thus doing good.