The Crucible Hypocrisy Analysis
The Crucible ,by Arthur Miller, is a play filled with multiple real world issues. Religion stands out the most dramatically and is woven throughout with hypocrisy as a front runner of concerns. The characters use religion as a means to justify their behaviors and choose to use it to their advantage. Whether it was deciding to attend church, have an affair or claim to see dead people in order to get those that they hate killed, religion can be seen as a tool for selfish motives. Oh, the hypocrisy! Even at a young age the girls were wise beyond their years about how to “play the system’ in a world that was controlled by the men. These ‘God Fearing Men’ claimed to be doing the Lord’s work, yet they too, were living a life based on selfish