Until recently, our nation has not wanted to discuss the dilemmas that the American public has endured. However, in Authur Miller's play, The Crucible, the moral obstacles of a young colonial town is the plot of the story, concluding with the consequences of their actions. Reverend Samuel Parris is an older man in his mid-forties trying to perceive himself as a proper man of the cloth. Outside the town of Salem lives a farmer and his wife, John and Elizabeth Proctor. John Proctor who always viewed himself as foolish, yet always tried to conduct himself in a proper manner. In this play, they are two of the most visible characters and are also the same people who have to face their own hypocrisy.
             In early America, the colonials used religion as a way to keep the populace together. In a way it was the seam of a town and the church was the key to keeping society strong. Therefore, the position of the reverend was very respectable and the person who held this status had to meet the dignified standards that was set by the elite families in the community. When Samuel Parris became the reverend of Salem he tried his best to win the citizens over into believing that he fit the correct mold of a proper man of the cloth. However, his own personal greed and eagerness to be accepted by his peers became the sharp pin that busted the reputation that he had tried so hard to achieve.
             Greed and the belief that he was better than the other individuals in Salem were just so of the moral dilemmas that Reverend Parris possessed. As a graduate of Havard College, he was a very educated man and, "left a thrifty business in the Barbados to serve the Lord."(29) Although it was never clearly expressed, the reader may get the impression that Parris is not satisfied with the wage that he received for being the most important man in the town. He believed that a man in his position deserved more and that serving the Lord should ent...