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This comparative response addresses the following prompt:
Topic: “The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you.” (The Crucible)
Compare the impact of guilt on the characters in The Crucible and The Dressmaker.
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Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible and Rosalie Ham’s gothic narrative The Dressmaker, pontificate, in different ways on the way that both guilt, and indeed feelings of guiltlessness direct the actions of the individuals that populate their texts. Guilt, at times, warranted and at other times not, burdens those for whom regret becomes all-consuming. It is not only the role guilt plays in shaping human responses but the way that it contributes to changes in human behavior that is a source of investigation in these two texts. Remorse becomes the catalyst for change in The Dressmaker where kindness and wisdom offer speculative hope that contrition can foster a new way of seeing things. Equally, the texts expose how for those who have wronged but refuse to own their guilt, transformation is impossible. Blame rather than acceptance becomes the response.
