Essay On Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God

Put yourself in Salem, Massachusetts back in 1692 being punished for the wicked games of witchcraft. Now imagine being preached at in a crowd full of awful sinners. Johnathan Edwards in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, tries to scare his readers into not sinning. He is also trying to persuade them to convert into pure Christians. Arthur Miller in, The Crucible compares McCarthyism in America to witchcraft in Salem. History was repeated when both Arthur Miller and Johnathan Edwards write the tales of the dark-spiritual world. Edwards shows pathos while Miller uses logos ethos and pathos. Edwards is portraying pathos in “Sinners in the Hands of and Angry God”. He continues to show the people as negative sinful demons. In his argument Johnathan Edwards blast the Bible against his
(Edwards 99). Edwards sermon left such a spiritual effect upon the congregation that not one person could keep quite. His sermon had so much meaning and authority to it in the most spiritual way. All he is trying to do is show them the outcomes and dangers if they continue to live a rebellious life. Johnathan Edwards was simply trying to teach his audience that sinning would ultimately get them know where, but hell. He did everything he could through his powerful moving sermons. Arthur Miller tells the story of witch craft in Salem, Massachusetts. He portrays ethos, logos and pathos throughout The Crucible. In The Crucible the town’s people of Salem began an uproar when they start believing stories of witchery. In The Crucible many of the town’s people were getting accused of witchcraft in Salem. One of the women in the town pleaded for justice as she said “I have eleven children and I am twenty-six times a grandma” (Miller 1038). Miller is using ethos to display emotion in this