Act Four

Act Four was a good and rounding ending to the whole play of The Crucible. The story has had a HUGE Christian based theme as we all know. It started with the idea of witchcraft and ended with the unraveling the lies and faults in all the stories. As many people know, we as humans like to find the answers to things. When we do not know the reasons for something, we make up reasons. These people used witchcraft to explain the conundrums they are having. This is not something that is done today because we have the insight of science but also because we are honestly not as based around the church as we were in those days. The story "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God" displays the very strict and hardness of the Christian faith in that time. It shows how sinners in that time deserved to be hung and then burn in hell. They believe that sinners had no right to live on this earth and no right to associate with "true" Christians. (Edwards) The worst part about this is that it caused many innocent people to die. This is because if someone was accused of a sin that they did not commit they were punished. The only way for them to be given the chance of life, is for them to admit to their sin. For those who are truly Christian and did not commit the sin, they do not want to do this of course because they do not want to lie. They know that in the eyes of God they did not commit the sin they are being accused but that if they lie God will see that lie. That lie would be the sin that God would see. So many would die because they did not want to lie in the eyes of God. "I can. And there's your first marvel, that I can. You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Procter. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep I form such dogs." (Miller 144) This quote displays when a good Christian man does not fall for the hard and ridiculous faults in the church at that time.


Edwards, Jonathan. "From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 97-99. Print.


Miller, Aurthur. The Crucible. New York: Penguin Group, 1976. 144 Print