Based upon Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible and the actual historical reports of the Salem witch trials, the Puritans’ beliefs interfered with their lawful decisions, and simultaneously ruined the lives and reputations of the innocent. The three of these topics were all united with the same idea of the court: it was not about the accused trying to prove themselves innocent but rather the disinclination of the illiterate court officials to believe that they are not guilty. The ideas of evil and witchcraft
There comes a time when revealing the truth to a given set of events is left in the hands of the people which are buckled down on interpreting it. Amongst the most historic and famous witch purges of the medieval ages, those in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 are the most prominent. The witch shakeups in Salem are widely considered an atrocity, based on the fact that over 150 people were arrested and more than 25 were executed based on the false testimony of a small group of teenage girls attempting
have a strong belief in a judgmental god that punishes all evil and rewards good deeds. Original sin is another tenet of puritanism that includes a powerful belief that working hard will get one to heaven and that humans are born with sin, stained by the sins of Adam and Eve. Puritans were expected to express guilt and remorse as a sign of God’s grace, meaning that they should never be happy with themselves and always looking to improve themselves in the eyes of god. The rigorous values of self-discipline
colonies were created during the Salem Witch Trials, explained through the story The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller. Other time periods, such as in the late 1950’s during the Second Red Scare, when people worried about the spread of communism through America, and between 1933-1945 during The Holocaust, when concentration camps were made to contain Jewish people. Miller’s message in the story The Crucible is saying that if we do not address
All people are born with the gift of free will. They can think, believe, and do however they see fit, which includes making choices that mark the difference between good and evil. According to East of Eden by John Steinbeck, the struggle between good and evil is the most prominent recurring theme throughout all of human history. The definition of good and evil is complex;there are multiple factors that contribute to its overall interpretation. Steinbeck also believes that a person can only be deemed
truth about the destructive nature of sin. Hawthorne’s Arthur Dimmesdale dies as a result of his sin and subsequent guilt in The Scarlet Letter, and Miller’s John Proctor dies as a result of his weakness and the false accusations of others in The Crucible. These authors show the real and lasting powerful effects of our transgressions as a warning to think about the consequences of our own actions. Therefore the redemption that seems missing from the play is fully completed when the audience accepts