Reflection-Crucible Act 4

Throughout reading the two puritan writings the Crucible and Hands of an Angry God, which was actually a sermon, but never the less they have some extreme coincedinces in them. In Hands of an Angry God the pastor or speaker is yelling at the audience saying that they are all sinners and fake puritans. They sit in church and act all perfect high and mighty and like they are great puritans when in all actuality they are not such good people. He says that god knows and he sees that they are not good puritans and that they will be punished by going to hell and it could be soon. They are using fear and intimidation to try and talk the people of the church into being good puritans because they are basically posers as a good puritans. In the book the Crucible, they are supposed to be good puritans just like the audience of Hands of an Angry God is supposed to be. However, some of the Puritans in the Crucible are not very good. They are commiting extreme sins. There is adulty occuring with Proctor and Abigail. That is a sin for many reasons. There is lying, cheating, and non maritial sex. Also there is practicing of witchcraft. Um Hello that is obviously a sin. Witchcraft is supposedly having to do with the devil. It is obviously a sin if you are dealing with the devil. People also are accusing them of witchcraft which they never really know for sure. They accused so many women and a few men of doing witchcraft, that they did not even think about the repercussions that would come from them doing that (Miller 48).Im sure that some of the people being scolded in Hands of an Angry God were either commiting adultry, or doing some of the other smaller sins involved in adultry such as lying, cheating, or having sex with out being married to the mate. Who knows some of the individuals listening to that sermon that day could of even been practicing withcraft back then. People actually do not know what other sins that their fellow church goers commit. People do things every single day that they would not ever want a soul to find out. They know it is bad, but people do it because they think they will not get caught. And sometimes you do and sometimes you do not. In church you could be sitting next to a murderer and not even know it. It is actually really scary that some people as bad as they are go to church and they act like they are perfect and act like they are living their whole life to god when in all reality, they are committing some serious sins and are really not living their life for god nor how god would want you to live your life. The fact that people in the Crucible were practicing withcraft, no matter what their intentions were, is a little freaky. It is just wierd that people would actually even want to do that. It has to do with the devil. Personally, I would not want to do any of the things that are with the devil. I do admit I have been present during an Ouji Board and I was freaked out and just wanted it all to end and be done with it. Nobody there was trying to sin or contact or worship the devil or whatever. But it was definitley a little creepy and wierd.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. Print.