Crucible Act 4

First of all I want to talk about how amusing reading the story Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" was.  I do not think that you (Mr. Langley) were there when we read this story, but we listened to the story on the big computer screen and it was so loud.  Jonathan Edwards was constantly yelling, practically throughout the whole story, and I could not help but to laugh.  It was like this man had woken up on the wrong side of the bad, and everybody around him was in danger of getting yelled at.  He was going on a rampage.
In both stories people were getting away from God in a way.  In "Sinners in the hands of an angry God", people were starting to lean away from God and the church, and by doing this, the church took the task of getting them back by the threat of fear.  They intimidated them in ways to come back to God.  In the Crucible, the characters started going astray from God and started dealing with witch craft.  In both stories, the people in each community began to go away from God and they tried things that they should not have, which ended up getting them in trouble, especially in the Crucible.  In both stories, they share the same message in that if you confess to your sins you will be saved from hell.  I would have to disagree with that though.  Just because you confess to what you have done wrong does not guarantee a path to heaven for you.  You have to believe that God is the one and only.  It does help to confess what you have done wrong, but that is not the only thing that you have to do to receive eternal life.
One quick resemblence in a character that I see, is that Jonathan Edwards and Abigail both scare people in order to try and get what they want.

Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! She goes to Betty and roughly sits her up. Now, you-sit up and stop this! (Miller 18).

She is very demanding in the way she talks to Betty during this time.  It is understandable howerver, because she does not want to get in trouble.  Whereas, Jonathan Edwards is just blowing smoke because he is mad at everybody and he has nothing to hide, like Abigail does.

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

Wilhelm, Jeffrey D. Glencoe Literature. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Glencoe, 2010. Print.