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Comparing The Sin Of Lust In The Crucible By Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Catholic Church maintains that seven vices in particular to breaking one or more of the Ten Commandments. These particular bad habits are called the Seven Deadly sins because, according to Catholicism, they’re sins that kill the life of sanctifying grace. Pope Gregory the Great made up the list in the 6th century, and in the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer popularized them in his Canterbury Tales. In the Bible states , “There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers” (Proverbs 6:16-19). This means …show more content…

If one were to commit the Sin of Lust their punishment in hell will be that they will be smothered in fire and brimstone. The Sin of Lust is associated with the cow and the color blue. The bull is perceived as destructive and potent like lust. In the book The Traveler’s Guide to Hell lust is ruled by the celestial sign of Venus. In the play The Crucible there are two Puritans that committed the Sin of Lust, Abigail Williams and John Proctor. John Proctor’s relationship with his wife wasn’t the best after she had her last baby she was sick and was very cold to him. So he strayed and slept with Abigail. When Proctor was in court to save his wife he told the court that he committed Adulrty, “God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat,” Act 3 and “In the proper place - where my beasts are bedded. On the last night of my joy, some eight months past.” Act 3. Abigail William’s wanted a married man and she was willing to frame his wife of Witchcraft so that she and Proctor could be together. Abigail wanted Proctor so bad that she stuck herself with a needle and acted like Elizabeth Proctor’s spirit had done it to her. “: The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams, sir. She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris’s house tonight, and without word nor warnin’ she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says,

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