2014 The Crucible The saying goes that money is the root of all evil. But could religion also be as corruptible as money? Arthur Miller, in his play The Crucible, shows that religion can be used as a tool for a person to act in his own interest and influence the masses, as well as demonstrate what can a person who is devoutly religious through Abigail’s behavior and through the Proctor’s belief system in order to illustrate the damage religion can cause. The first way Miller shows religion can be dangerous…
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The Crucible Religion is a big factor in everyday live for many, especially for the Puritan people. The Crucible, a story about the Salem witch trials, is a story about fear,lies, and religion. In Salem, at the time of the witch trials, people accused others because of their beliefs and ways of living, still to this day people are being accused for the sames reasons. Today people in America are being shamed for being muslim and “fat”. In America there are people hating others based on the religious…
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” (Seneca the Younger) The practice form of Christianity centered is sent on rules that every Sunday they go to church, they don’t work on the Sabbath, and they believe in the Gospel. Value is something that is important to the person and will always be in their hearts. Also religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman. In The Crucible, the message Arthur Miller is trying to say to people…
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fight for what they believe in. With Americans having their own beliefs, they will stand up for their opinions and other things such as religion. Throughout the stories that have been read, multiple stories show some kind of religion or belief, and in a lot of the stories they also fight for their beliefs. These two categories fit together, because religion is a kind of belief and is very apparent in many of these stories. I believe that fighting for what you believe in is an important part about…
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Thematic Connections Between Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible all contain one of the two branches of modern philosophical thought, also known as theological ethics. Theological ethics associate with religion, and are discernible throughout each piece of literature. Each author uses religion to control society in each of their texts. They display wrong Christian behavior in their writings…
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when puritans ruled most of what is now the United States? When comparing the two stories “The crucible” and “Sinners of an angry god” you will see that Theocracy was the way everything ran. In both stories they are very sentient with religions. They are holy people and live by god’s rules. To start, in the puritan life god makes the choice of who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell. In the crucibles it similar but instead of god instructing you, Reverend hale tells gods decision to the people.…
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happiness. In this particular interaction, a connection was made much like the two stories the Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both stories contain scenarios of misunderstood characters that experience public humiliation and false accusations. Numerous connections exist between the two works in the stories that lead to effects inside and outside of the texts. Religion is strong in both works that make…
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Reputation in The Crucible Reputation is very protruding , and or considered the most important theme in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The villagers of Salem are consumed by greed and fear. They are losing their belief in their religion and the power it holds over them. Some of the characters are completely self aware and know that a good name is better than lying, and would even consider dying before ruining their names with lies. Reverend Parris, John Proctor, and Judge Danforth all value their…
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Why The Crucible' Remains Important Today For a story of any kind to have any relevance or meaning some 50 years after being written and indeed almost 400 years after it was set, it needs to contain themes and ideas that have been uniformly felt and experienced by people from all walks of life as well as continuing to speak to and have meaning to new and changed generations of people. Years after being written, Arthur Miller's The Crucible', still successfully speaks to numerous generations…
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Jealously, the weakest link. In the crucible I believe a theme or a thematic ideal in the crucible is jealousy, we can see in this play that jealousy play a big role to the crucible and the who chaos was all filtered from one character and was displaced as death in many other characters in the crucible, jealousy can also be a very broad and essential topic in the crucible because jealousy was used as a foundation for the play. In the beginning of the play we see the children dancing in…
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