Examples Of Loyalty In The Crucible

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Loyalty
loy·al·ty
ˈloiəltē/ noun
The quality of being loyal to someone or something.

To me loyalty mean staying by someones side whether they are right or wrong; being able to tell them when they're wrong and helping them through it. It is a strong feeling that is hard to get rid of.
Personally, my strongest memory of loyalty is when I had to pick up my mom from Downtown; we had gotten into a fight about rent earlier and she got drunk and left. A few hours later, I got a call saying she would be arrested if nobody came to get her. In all honesty, I wanted to just let her be arrested, but I had promised that I wouldn't leave her if I could help it. Even though I wanted so badly to just leave her to be arrested and be done with the …show more content…

In the book, the main conflict derives from the fact that the society is incredibly strict and loyal to their faith; not allowing people to dance, sing, or even read books. In the beginning of the book, we find that Abigail and her friends went against many of these laws by dancing in the woods and “Trying to summon the Devil”. They get caught, and in order to protect themselves from punishment, the create a story about seeing numerous people's spirits with the Devil, and that they wish to “give” themselves to God. The townsfolk believe this as they really have no reason not to, because to them, doubting the girls would be like doubting their faith. The townsfolk show their extreme loyalty to their faith by blindly believing the girls' story to be true, this would not be inherently bad – If it weren't for the numerous people that died.
The secondary conflict of The Crucible derives from John Proctors lack of loyalty to both his faith and to his wife. In the first act of the book John admits to the reader that he had and affair with Abigail a few months earlier. He denies that he feels anything for her, but Abigail argues,

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