Centuries ago, good, evil, and lies had a whole different meaning than what

they do today. During the time that events in The Crucible had taken place,

the Puritan community had a lack of tolerance for anything that was not, in

their opinions, good and pure behavior. Though there is not much good

happening in the play, the three aspects of the play, good, evil, and lies,

were represented by each character in the book. Some of the characters held

more than one of these qualities at a time. Some of the Salem Puritans were

honestly good people, some deep down were evil sinners, while the rest used

the power of lie to protect their stainless names.

A good individual is what one in the Puritan community wanted and needed to

be in order to live a normal life. A true Puritan attended church regularly

and prayed during their spare time. Anything considered ungodly or to be the

slightest sin, such as plowing on a Sunday, was not sanctioned. If one kept a

secret or did anything that seemed wrong to the church, the whole community

felt that they had a right to know. There was nowhere to hide because the

Puritans were so apt to find sin, they would eventually m

Though she was married to a sinner, she lied only once throughout the book,

under a spell and says, “Envy is a deadly sin, Mary” (115). Here, Abigail is

A third evil character in the play is Tituba. She also seems to be a good

community subject to such evil and lies? It may have been a form of rebellion

Some topics in this essay:
John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Salem Puritans, Abigail Mary, Abigail Williams, Mary Warren’s, John Hale, Thomas Putnam’s, Crucible Puritan, Proctor Murder, evil lies, abigail mary, character play, abigail williams, power lie, evil character play, acts witchcraft, puritan community, rebecca nurse, people die, play evil,