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Throughout the the story, "The Crucible" witchcraft is brought up frequently. To me it became one of the major themes throughout the story. It is apparent from the begining that it had a lot to do with religion and superstition. The people living in Salem during this time were very serious about living their life completely focused on their religion. But they also believed some off the wall things like "the virgin forest was the devils last preserve." So being this concerned about the people in their town practicing witchcraft wasn't a waist of time to them, they felt it was their duty to protect themselves form anything that wasn't holy. But just like any other small town gossip begins to control peoples feelings and how they react to each other. In small town the gossip was about these girls in the forest practicing witchcraft and they apparently saw evil spirits. But after a while they started to believe their own lies and turned on one another, not knowing who to believe or who to trust. I also believe the underlined theme of witchcraft has a certain moral meaning behind it. I think that the meaning is to always be honest and never to judge people for their mistakes or misjudgments. Although these people in the town of Salem were self-proclaimed die-hard Christains their actions contradict their feelings and their proclamations. Although these girls lied to protect themselves they ended up hurting them and the rest of the towm by claiming witchcraft on all those innocent people. |
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