The Crucible Theme Essay

"You are combined with anti-Christ,are you not?"--Danforth. Within Miller's book The Crucible he portrays and explains how Puritan life was and how the people responded to it on a daily basis. Within The Crucible there is a horrific village known as Salem and in it everything runs off of the bible and the people's thought and if they think you are a witch you will be accused and have to either confess or be brought to death. By closely looking at how Puritanism caused such havoc and destruction . Two themes that obviously dealt with the outrageous destruction and the attitudes of those people would be the philosophical theme of examined their inner lives closely looking for signs of grace or of being damned and the religious theme of which are certain that most of of humanity would be damned for all eternity. Miller had successfully used the philosophical theme of examined their inner lives closely looking for signs of grace or of being damned to effectively display how it affected their way of life and their insane behavior. "Oh, how many times he bid me kill you Mr. Parris"-Tituba. In this quote Tituba explains that she could have killed him but she didn't because she is not the type of person to do such a thing. This obviously shows that Tituba is working the puritan theme of examined their inner
The Philosophical theme of examined inner lives closely looking for signs of grace or of being damned and Religious theme of are certain most of humanity would be damned for all eternity by giving people options to go to as a way of thinking which could either be in fear or grace. Puritans relied on these themes to live their daily lives but when they are manipulated it shows what happened in the crucible. This made Puritans make rash decisions because of fear of being damned by others so it made them accuse others. Puritan beliefs were allowed to be manipulated which lead to many