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The Crucible Pride Analysis

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Pride, considered by some to be the worst of the seven deadly sins, can cause a person to go to extreme measures to save their reputation, this is demonstrated by the actions of Judge Danforth, Reverend Hale and John Proctor, during the Salem witch trials of 1960, in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Throughout the play Judge Danforth expressed his prideful ways, in a number of situations, even when other people 's lives were on the line. When Hale suggested postponing the trial Danforth roared, “Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now” (Danforth.4.1.129). Danforth knows that postponement would give people more time to confess and save there own life.
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