Common Themes In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

n 1953 Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, a play full of really important common themes, such as superstition, fear, hysteria, paranoia, lies, corruption, loyalty and religion; the characters are the American puritans, people who are extremely religious and superstitious, they are in the service of God and what is in the bible is sacred for them and must be obeyed by everyone. For puritans, witchcraft is an abomination and should be punished with dead if it’s not confessed as every sin that a person could commit; sins like lying without confessed could lead a person to jail and loose everything they had.
Through thousands of years, superstition has always been in humans and sometimes these irrational beliefs lead us to do terrible things because