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In The Crucible, the author, Arthur Miller, explains the relationship between faith and truth. To all of the characters in The Crucible, faith is a personal subject. It’s personal, but if you don’t believe in the same things as everyone else you’re considered wrong. “The truth will set you free”, so why do the people lie about witchcraft? Witchcraft will contradict what other people believe, and then you will be hanged. John Proctor is given the choice to tell the truth and be hanged, or lie and be set free. Lies and the truth is the whole base of the story. The plot that takes place in the story wouldn’t have even existed had everyone been telling the truth. The Salem Witch Trials happen because of other people’s faith. Agroup of girls goes “dancing in the woods”, when Reverend Parris finds them. They were later accused of witchcraft when Parris’s daughter Betty, one of the girls in the woods, falls into a coma. Abigail, the girls’ “ringleader”, is having an affair with John Proctor. With the town of Salem being Puritan based, it is difficult for anyone to believe anything but that religion. They see that as a sin. Later on the story, anything that other people consider “wrong” is accused of being witchcraft, and then more people are hanged. The …show more content…
On one level, the conflict arises because of the shock and fear experienced by the girls who were caught in the forest. However the conflict also concerns the manner in which people worship God in Salem; mant the church and the state. For this reason, the witch-hunt also conceals other long-held hatreds ans simmering divisions. The court and the religious “keepers” place their faith in the girls as it becomes a convient means of arresting there eroding
In The Crucible, the author, Arthur Miller, explains the relationship between faith and truth. To all of the characters in The Crucible, faith is a personal subject. It’s personal, but if you don’t believe in the same things as everyone else you’re considered wrong. “The truth will set you free”, so why do the people lie about witchcraft? Witchcraft will contradict what other people believe, and then you will be hanged. John Proctor is given the choice to tell the truth and be hanged, or lie and be set free. Lies and the truth is the whole base of the story. The plot that takes place in the story wouldn’t have even existed had everyone been telling the truth. The Salem Witch Trials happen because of other people’s faith. Agroup of girls goes “dancing in the woods”, when Reverend Parris finds them. They were later accused of witchcraft when Parris’s daughter Betty, one of the girls in the woods, falls into a coma. Abigail, the girls’ “ringleader”, is having an affair with John Proctor. With the town of Salem being Puritan based, it is difficult for anyone to believe anything but that religion. They see that as a sin. Later on the story, anything that other people consider “wrong” is accused of being witchcraft, and then more people are hanged. The …show more content…
On one level, the conflict arises because of the shock and fear experienced by the girls who were caught in the forest. However the conflict also concerns the manner in which people worship God in Salem; mant the church and the state. For this reason, the witch-hunt also conceals other long-held hatreds ans simmering divisions. The court and the religious “keepers” place their faith in the girls as it becomes a convient means of arresting there eroding