Michael Mompellion In Year Of Wonders

In Year Of Wonders, Brooks utilises the most pious figure, Michael Mompellion to illustrate how ones faith dissipates in times of crisis. Mompellion goes from being a leader to the plague stricken community, to a man who was eventually torn down by the ruthless power of crisis and had “given himself up to the darkness.” Indeed, it is seen that religion brings no comfort to Mompellion anymore as he deems God a “poor listener”, and it is the very fact that he clung so strongly to his religious beliefs that lead to this demise. After all these “darkest days” his God did not save him and it is clearly shown that the faith he once had was gone. “His hand is on the bible, but he never opens it. Not anymore.” Comparatively, ‘The Crucible’ also shows