Change In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

”Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”(John F. Kennedy). Changing is a very hard and tiring. No one likes to change, no one likes to be told what to do. The Puritans believe that they understand God and that their job is to banish the evil out. When they lived this way, certain people understood the concept that God was trying to send with Jesus. This happened after Jesus was here which shows that the Puritans don't want to change and think that they are right. Arthur Miller puts these “martyrs” such as John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, and Martha Corey to show the Puritans that they need to change their ways, or they, as John says, “will burn in hell.”. This is common theme to many Puritans writing, such as Scarlet Letter.

Arthur Miller was an atheist and in the text he tried to show that there was no God, because he represents John Proctor in the beginning when he cared about his name in the town. John's pride was so far ahead of him that he questioned God. He didn’t baptize his last son because, “He has no God in him.”. “I sat God is dead!” says John Proctor, he doesn’t think there is a God because all the innocent people are dying by being falsely accused. The problem with John in this “martyrdom” is that he doesn’t know that God gives mercy and forgiveness to the people who are falsely accused because of his name. But John’s death gets into Reverend Hale, because he knows that they were innocent and can’t change the judge's mind. Hale understands what is wrong with the Puritans. Arthur Miller did this indirectly because he wanted to use this to show that there is no God, and he wanted to leave an impact on the Puritans. The Crucible can also be connected to The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne also wanted to change and impact the Puritans. In both texts it shows that the high priests are the ones who can’t be tempted or have evil within them, as the Puritans say. In