The Crucible is actually quite an odd story beccause it does a lot of things that people would not think that "god" would agree with. All of the other puritan writings we read were all about how great the god was and how everyone followed him and they were all praise god and the heavens above. Act one of the Crucible is completely different. It was actually more similair to the short thing we read in class called hands of an angry god, which was actually a sermon of a preacher who was very angry and said god was angry too. In act one of the crucible, there is practices of witchcraft which is very odd to be in Puritan writing. There are some examples of the normal puritan writing in the crucible. At the begenning Parris is kneeling against his bed and is praying to God(Miller 13). God is the only ruler in the town, and a lot of people do worship him. He is the idol of the story to most people. But it is just still different than all the other Puritan writings because of the witchcraft. Witchcraft islike exploring the devil and trying to contact the dead. That is actually a sin. Having characters practice sin is a contradiction to God. It gives it a little mystery and a dark twist to the normal boring Puritan writing. In all the other stories the worst thing that happened was the bad things that happened to them and then they still were worshipping god having him be the absolutle best and praised him for everything. The bad things that happened in this story is things that were in control of the characters and they were doing bad things, such as the witchcraft(Miller 27). It was just a very different feel and tone than the other Puritan stories.
We also see somethign different in this story because in the other Puritan writings they just knew god was taking care of them like when the woman's house burnt down in the other story i read she knew god was taking care of her because she was still alive and she did not die even though she lost the rest of her things and everything else she had in life. In the Crucible, they are not just relying on god to be there for him but they are asking for his forgiveness for doing some sins such as the practice of witchcraft(Millwer 27). With sins of witchcraft going on it is taking away from the message and main theme of god because there are thigns god would not want you to do going on. It is still Puritan writing because god is a main messge and they do worship him, but there are all the contridictions of god with all the sins. I actualy liked this story better because it had some dark secrets with the adultry and there was some twists to the story it was not just god is so high and mighty and that he was the only thing the story was about. With the twists and dark secrets to the story it just makes it so much more interesting.
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, Penguin, 1996. Print.
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