This week in class we talked about different themes in The Crucible. Man vs. Nature is a huge theme in this book. The puritans think that the woods are basically the devil. If anyone goes in there, then they will be possessed by the devil, making them evil and a "witch". The puritans vs. the woods causes major conflict between everyone in the village. They believe the girls that went in to the woods were possesed by witches and the rest of the town is hunting people down to figure out if they are witches.
I personally agree with the puritans. The woods in my oppinion could not have possibly been considered or at all be the devil. First of all because the girls that went into the woods were lying about the witches to save their own behind. Also because there are woods everywhere. People go into the woods all the time. Just becuase the woods are kind of creepy, actually they are super creepy, doesn't mean they are evil. I definatly dissagree with the puritans.
Also, back then I feel people just agreed with what they were told or what they wanted to believe. They didn't really think things through logically. But then again they weren't as advanced as we might be now. Not saying that people now don't believe in ghosts and stuff because I guess i kind of do. I get very creeped out by scary movies about ghosts and what not. The puritans were probably right to believe the things they did at that time period, but I would not agree with them and the crimes they commited maybe because i don't fully understand how society worked back then.