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Fear And Superstition In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

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The Crucible We all have fear. Some of us have the fear that can not fall into sleep. Some of us have the fear that does not care. What is the fear? Fear is something that does not want to experience again. Someone can use the fear to creat the superstition because the fear will become more and more afraid that someone will take it as the true thing, but the most afraid thing is the heart. Arthur Miller who wrote 《The Crucible》told us that human hearts are the most terrible fear because the human hearts are incomprehensible and are not what they were in old days so that there appears superstition and the superstition confuses the human hearts. There is not originally any fear and the superstition in the world, but there fear and superstition …show more content…

Abigail threatened other girls that did not tell others the truths because Abigail felt afraid that what they did I would lose her all reputation, so Abigail created the superstition. Abigail was afraid about her reputation in the village. She did not want others to say Abigail was a liar. She did not want to assume the responsibility that she created the witches that disordered the life in the village so that she told others the superstition. She wanted to make others believe in the superstition because she could not have any blame on it. Sarah Goody was a poor woman that she admitted that she conjured spirits because she was afraid to die, so she had to creat the superstition because she was pregnant. Sarah Goody was a person that she did not care about others, she just cared about herself. Sarah Goody admitted the superstition because she did not want to hurt herself so that she did not want to protect the responsibility of others. The superstition is horrible because it can dispute a person's thoughts so that it is believed by more and more persons. The fear and superstition can make the whole world become

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