Examples Of Lying In The Crucible

According to John Proctor's religion, lying is a sin. The document that he was supposed to sign was to say that he was accompanied by witchcraft. He did not sign the document because it would be a lie. When the minister had asked him if the document was a lie, John said, “Why, [the document] is a lie, it is a lie; how may I damn myself? I cannot, I cannot.” (1108). It was important to John not to lie because it was a sin, and he was already damned from committing adultery. Mary Warren was the same; she wanted to tell the truth. She was one of the girls in the group to say that she was seeing people contribute to witchcraft and she told John that she wanted to confess to her lying. So, he told the corrupted court that Mary and the rest of the