The Crucible

The name of an entertaining movie about the Salem Witch Trials starring Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Rider. I had to read the book and watch the movie in 9th or 10th grade. More recently, the favored image used by one of my confessions professors to explain the schizophrenic nature of life on earth. Also a useful image for the time spent writing an endorsement essay and the waiting until going before the firing squad (March 3 for those who are curious). As an extension of the aforementioned image, people are forced to confess as to whether they are witches or not. Here I am being forced to confess in my paper what I believe to be and hold true. Ironically the movie ends with those being executed reciting the Lord's Prayer--which is what we've been covering in confessions class.