The True Definition of Faith
“Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.” –Martin Luther. Faith, to various types of people, is one of the more important factors of life because it has sentimental value and is a key factor in life to some 86% of the world population according to The Huffington Post. Faith helps individuals with answering answer-less questions and getting through difficult times. As Martin Luther states in his quote, faith seizes an individual’s life and allows them to see “clearly” with support in their beliefs. True faith is like water, it flows clearly through the world, but can be easily polluted.
The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a play that’s theme heavily revolves around and relies on faith. The fact that so many individuals, such as Abigail Williams, have their faith “polluted” and choose to lie and falsely accuse others of witchcraft shows just how easily an individual’s faith can be “polluted”. However, there were also those who had strong faith, like John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse, whom were eventually hanged …show more content…
He was a humanist and an anti-nationalist who denounced the British Raj advocated and supported independence from Britain for India. This poet once said that “faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark”. This quote perfectly supports the true definition of faith; the bird cannot see the “complete staircase” but still has faith that the sun will come out and let the bird “clearly see”. The bird in this scenario is much like Elizabeth Proctor from The Crucible, she tells Proctor that she “surely” wants him alive, but leaves it up to him to make the right decision. She “feels the light when the dawn is still dark”, she knows that Proctor still has a long path towards making the right decision (staying true to his faith and not confessing), but knows that he has started to walk on the “first step of the