Examples Of Honesty In The Crucible
In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Reverend John Hale is convinced that the people of Salem who have been convicted, but are not confessing, are doing so to save their names out of a sense of vanity. They are forced to choose between lying and having their named blackened or telling the truth and being hung. While vanity may be a powerful motivator, it is not strong enough to drive someone to accept death over living with a ruined reputation. The people of Salem chose to tell the truth out of honesty to abide by their religious values and to not further compromise their inner integrity, and people in today’s society can be seen exhibiting the same reputable actions.
All throughout The Crucible, Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey are continuously being …show more content…
In today’s court systems, it is considerably hard to convict someone of murder without having any physical evidence, but in Richard Glossip’s case, he has been sentenced to death for a murder he did not physically commit. Reporter Graham Brewer states, “Glossip, who has always maintained he is not guilty, was granted a stay less than four hours ahead of his scheduled lethal injection on Wednesday, and had the state carried out his death sentence he would have been only the 21st inmate to be executed in the United States who did not physically commit the murder they were on trial for, according to the Death Penalty Information Center” (Graham). Having already been sentenced to death, Glossip has no reason to not confess to hiring someone to kill for him because if he is executed, his reputation is still blackened due to the fact that he was convicted for the murder by proof beyond reasonable doubt. Vanity plays no part in Glossip’s decision because other than staying honest to himself and refusing to admit to a crime he had no part in, Glossip has nothing to gain from maintaining his
All throughout The Crucible, Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey are continuously being …show more content…
In today’s court systems, it is considerably hard to convict someone of murder without having any physical evidence, but in Richard Glossip’s case, he has been sentenced to death for a murder he did not physically commit. Reporter Graham Brewer states, “Glossip, who has always maintained he is not guilty, was granted a stay less than four hours ahead of his scheduled lethal injection on Wednesday, and had the state carried out his death sentence he would have been only the 21st inmate to be executed in the United States who did not physically commit the murder they were on trial for, according to the Death Penalty Information Center” (Graham). Having already been sentenced to death, Glossip has no reason to not confess to hiring someone to kill for him because if he is executed, his reputation is still blackened due to the fact that he was convicted for the murder by proof beyond reasonable doubt. Vanity plays no part in Glossip’s decision because other than staying honest to himself and refusing to admit to a crime he had no part in, Glossip has nothing to gain from maintaining his