Theme Of Reputation In The Crucible

Reputation is the widespread belief that someone or something has a particular defining habit or characteristic. The Author of The Crucible, Arthur Miller, writes about a small Christian community in Salem, which is struck with an onslaught of ‘witchcraft’ accusations by a group of young girls. In turn causes everyone to lie and accuse people they want to see suffer which brings chaos upon the small community. Reputation has influenced people we would consider godly, but they would turn out to be anything but it.
To convince Abigail that she needs to forget about what they have done together because of how it makes him look as a man. “No, no, Abby. That’s done with… Abby that’s a wild thing to say” (145). Shows the disturbing truth about John …show more content…
“[John Proctor] I’ve heard you to be a sensible man, Mr. Hale. I hope you’ll leave some of it in Salem” (154). John Proctor has never met nor seen this man before, but everyone knows what he does and what he has done. Which makes it easy to gain everyone’s trust and for people to believe what he has to say. Francis runs into the Proctor house scared out of his mind because they took his wife away for suspicion of witchcraft, “[Hale] Believe me, Mr. Nurse, if Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothing’s left to stop the whole green world from burning” (170). Rebecca Nurse is known as probably the most god abiding and perfect Christian women out there. It was very shocking news to hear about her being charged with witchcraft is unthinkable. Which causes John Proctor and Hale to believe that these accusations are false and are made without reason. Reverend Hale is a very god abiding person and he is left to deal with the feelings of confusion and false hope because perfect, kind hearts are being treating with the upmost disrespect and being charged as being unholy while the ones who are doing the accusing are the real devil