The Crucible Essay Characters were willing to do almost anything in order to protect their reputation. “And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out… why she done it herself (Miller 71.) People were prepared to commit many sins in order to keep theur reputation clean. If they were accused of witchcraft, their reputation would be destroyed. In effors to save their reputation, characters would go to great lengths to frame others. “I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parush, you compromise my very character (Miller 11). Reverend Paris is high up in the town and if fearful of being accused of witchcraft because it could cause him to loose his position in the town. He is more concerned with his standing in the town than his own daughter and nieces lives being at stake. Humans all have certain behaviors and feelings that cause these types of actions. …show more content…
“I will fall like an ocean on that court” (Miller 73). John Putnum is willing to do anything to protect his wife Elizebeth’s life. This shows that people are willing to kill others out of love for another (“An Analysiss of Human Nature in The Crucible by Author Miller.”). People are willing to do many things in their power in order to survive or help loved ones survive. What ever it took for them to not get killed, they were willing to do. “And there is none but Putnum with the win to by so great a piece. This man is killing his neighbors for their land (Miller 89). Putnum is using his daughter for his own advantage. He wants her to give out names of people to get accused of witchcraft for his own power. Putnum is using mass hysteria to gain more land in Salem. The more property, the more