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Examples Of Lying In The Crucible

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No matter what you may do to stop yourself from lying, you’ll never get away. Lying is just an characteristic of human nature that is always going to happen. In the play, The Crucible, many of the characters lie and are very dishonest, each of them having a different reasons. The straight forward Puritan idea often makes the characters to bargain their honesty because they feel like the only other thing they can do is lie.
Abigail and John Proctor did have an affair, but Proctor denies that there ever was anything between them. "Wipe it out of your mind. We never touched, Abby." Proctor, knew quite well that John Proctor and Abigail did have have an affair but denies it in a dishonest manner. He does not want to uncover his dishonesty, because

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