‘The Crucible’ Essay
‘The Crucible’ is set in Salem Massachusetts the date is 1692. Many religious people from Europe had fled to the America’s because they feared religious persecution. When the European puritans landed on American soil they used the tools they had brought with them and cut wood from the forests and started to build their new settlement. The puritan way was simple; it simply meant that you had no temptations such as greed and selfishness, but these ways of simple ness were corrupted neither by men nor women in fact adults had no part in the corruption, it was solely down to a small group of young girls. Thus all it took to corrupt a whole society was this group of girls.
In Salem all the residents had strong religious beliefs they were all puritans. In the 16th and 17th century any of the more extreme English Protestants, most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England. All the people who lived in Salem were fanatical about the pure way to live. The way of life that the puritans had chosen wasn’t all that good because the restrictions and rules just tempted the people to do what was seen to be wrong, when the girls chanted and danced naked in the forest and when john Procter and Abigail have an affair, these are prime examples of disobeying the rules. Some of the people in Salem took a very literal view of the Old Testament; this is a bad thing because if they believe everything in the book they could bring chaos to the whole society.
