Freedom In The Crucible

There is nothing between you and hell, but the air! Hell is where you shall burn for eternity! Conforming to an identity that is forced on you is betrayal to yourself. Having your own identity is key to a healthy life. But when people use power to take over your beliefs and ideas you can start to lack freedom. In this essay, it will be conveyed to you how, misused power can take over ideas and morals. This power is used in the Crucible and in Sinners in the hands of an angry god. Knowing who you are is one of the fundamental building blocks of life, everybody is entitled to different ideas, styles and passions, but in The Crucible (by Arthur Miller) this sense of identity is loss. While reading The crucible there are many examples of people's identity being tested and forgotten. One of those examples happen to be, when Tituba had to decide if she wanted to be a good Christian woman or stick to her Barbados roots. When being suspected of Whether or not it was to save her life or whether it was to stop her whipping, she gave up her

The freedom of being an idealist is a huge part of independence and being able to think for yourself. Likewise an even more interesting example is in “Sinners in the hands of an angry God” when it was stated on page 72 paragraph 6 “The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart.This statement has molded someone into thinking there representing justice; that justice is used like God's "pointing finger". Being God's "finger" might give someone or a group of people,the reasoning to say, the act that they're doing is justified because they're doing it in the name of the lord. This example, just goes to show that people construed text and beliefs to their own advantage and gain power. Conformity is at the hand of someone else's standards based on the power that they hold over