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Examples Of Loyalty In The Crucible
Are you loyal? Loyalty is the quality of being loyal to someone or something. Loyalty is being displayed all through act three. There are multiple comparisons that comes to mind when i read this play and when i think about modern day events. Loyalty is a very strong word, everyone is not loyal. Most time when we think of loyalty we think of being loyal to your boy or girl friend but that is not that case all the time. Loyalty is standing up and acting on what you believe in no matter the circumstance.
In the crucible there were multiple events were loyalty was not being displayed. For example proctor cheated on Elizabeth multiple times. He was so brave and blunt with it that he had the nerves to be in the same room with this women while Elizabeth

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