Live or Die
“There are things greater than ourselves for which we must be ready to die. ... " Cardinal Ambrozic There are some people that live by the words that nothing in life is worth dying for. ... In The Crucible, Arthur Miller uses the characters John Proctor and Giles Corey to stress that dying for a principle is honorable compared to deceiving and lying to one’s self in order to live a meaningless life. ... Willing to openly express his beliefs against segregation and racism, Luther proves that “‘a man who won’t die for something is not it to live. ... Proctor does not want to taint his name with that cruelty, while other more decent people die for being honest. After his death, people realize that one should not lie or accuse in order to preserve one’s life, but to stand up against the taking of another’s life, even if it means having to die for it.