The Crucible Act IV

Finally finishing the Crucible, I feel accomplished. We will be ending the book with this blog. It will contain comparisons to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

The two novels are both examples of Puritan writing. They are pretty much revolved around God in a way. Both of the writings seem to be a little mad at God. He is very powerful. These two writings are also like the other Puritan writings we have read in this class.

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is shorter than The Crucible. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is basically criticizing people throughout the whole thing. The author wrote about how people are doing the wrong thing and are being bad. Criticizing the characters, the speaker seems to basically tell the characters how they are going to Hell and are horrible people. He tells the people how God is mad at them and will punish them all. He also lectured about how people are good and holy in church, but are bad outside of the church as they are on their own. This is a problem in the current day as well. I see a lot of people at church acting holy and such, but when I see them outside of church, they are cursing and not being holy at all. They are only faking themselves because God can see the people everywhere. They are just putting on an act for themselves and the church goers.

The Crucible is like this in a way. When life was difficult and confusing, they praised God and asked for help. When life got simple again, they kind of just forgot about him. When things get easy, God seems to just fall out of a person's priorities. In both novels, when they needed help they asked for it. Also in both novels, when life was going good, they forgot about God (Edwards 97). They no longer prayed as much and they no longer kept their Christian life. They started to get lazy with it. In The Crucible, people started to want to take over and they wanted power. As they tried to succeed in life, they did not care about succeeding in the after life. Their priorities were different than they were when they were struggling. When things got hard again, they started to pray again (Edwards 98).

Both of these writings did not resemble being a good Christian during the full story. Both the writings seemed to show falling away from God and falling away from being a good, respectable Christian. There is a lot of emotions in both of these writings, but none of it is really positive. All of the emotion is negative. I think these books could have been more enjoyable if they were a bit more positive. It was weird that people did not really have a happy ending in these writings. Also, when I saw novel (referring to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God") I actually mean writing or story. It is not a a novel, but I have noticed I accidentally have said novel instead.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. Print.

Bloom, Harold. Arthur Miller's The Crucible. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008. Print.

Edwards, Jonathan. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Pub., 1992. Print.