The Crucible

I think the movie, The Crucible, reflects what I’ve learned about the Puritans. I honestly think that the Puritans were very hypocritical. The movie and the literature both show how hypocritical the Puritans actually were. Puritans were extremely strict and very religious also. There was no separation in church and state, therefore the people didn’t really stand a chance in court if the church shunned them. The Puritans, in the movie The Crucible and in the literature, thought that you were damned for eternity, if you didn’t live how they wanted you to live. They were very hypocritical here because the head of the church got to live how they wanted too. In the movie, The Crucible, the head of the churches wife got accused of being a witch by Abigail. Abigail said she saw his wife playing with the devil, but the head of the church said that she was mistaken. So there is an example of them being hypocritical, his wife got out of getting killed because he was head of the church, while the other girls that got accused got killed. They would say you couldn’t do something, then they would go an do it. They did what they pleased and everyone else had to obey what they said. Also the Puritans were very strict! In church it was separated by gender, and they attempted to control nonconformist women. In The Crucible and literature book, they both had the same religious beliefs. They believed that humans were sinful by nature, which is actually true, because everyone sins. In the bible it specifically teaches you that people even children sin because they are sinners. Puritans also believed that hard work and worldly success was signs of God’s grace. This is however them being hypocritical once again, because the head of the church didn’t really do any hard work but still got God’s grace. The head of the church could do nothing and still go to heaven, but they still told people that were working hard that they were damned for eternity. The way I see it is that that’s