Honesty In Arthur Miller's The Crucible

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Honesty is the Best Policy Honesty is the best policy. It is a virtue that we all must aim for to have a peaceful and serene life. It is a foundation to a healthy relationship dealing with the people in our lives, whether they are our parents, friends or brothers and sisters. There isn’t a healthy relationship without trust and that is how you gain honesty. Being honest avoids trouble and makes your life easier instead of worrying about things that you have lied about and implying stress on yourself. When you’re honest about the things you do, you don’t have to carry burdens about lying. Being honest can lead you to being happy because you made the right the decision to begin with. Doing honest deeds are rewarded to the people who tell the …show more content…

Honesty is a matter of life and death in this story. People are accused of witchcraft and if accused and you denied to anything dealing with witchcraft, you were to be hanged. On the other hand, in order to save your life, you had to confirm to witchcraft and agree with associating with the devil. What would you do if you were accused? Would you lie and agree to dealing with witchcraft and associating with the devil just to save your life? Or, would you be honest and sacrifice your life for something you didn’t do? In this story, the protagonist John Proctor plays a role of contradiction. Throughout the story, John Proctor attempts to carry out honesty when he is brought to the courtroom to admit to committing adultery with Abigail Williams and when Hale told him to confess to witchcraft and to sign his name. John refused to sign his name, the act of putting his name on paper was just too much for him. Even though he could’ve saved his life by just lying and signing the paper, he found goodness in himself and did the right …show more content…

Mr. Hooper’s veil is very sentimental to him. His veil is looked at in different ways, it can symbolize the confession of his sins or a way to hide his sins. Mr. Hooper showed honesty toward his veil. He didn’t take it off even when people tempted him to take it off, specifically when his soon to be wife debated with him to take the veil off who was pretty much the only person who had the courage to go up and talk to him about the veil, he then rebuttled and told her he can not take it off. People around were thinking he was hiding secret sin, but we really don’t know why Mr. Hooper wore that veil, but for whatever the reason was, Mr.Hooper was being honest in whatever the reason was he wore that veil, to either show he is confessing his sins and showing that he is a sinner or a symbolic way to show that we are all sinners and we all have masks but the only difference is that his veil is

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