A Lust of Fake Love - Is It Love or Lust?

Leticia M. Olvera

Is it Love or Lust?

The Crucible takes place in the early in the sixteen hundreds. While witches are falsely placed on these characters used the examples shown such as love and lust is very existent between all of them. Mary Warren has a strong lust not only for power, but for the love of John Hale as well. Love is a success made by choice.

        Mary Warren is passionate about winning over John Hale. Mary Warren’s obsession with him causes all of John Hale’s problems. These problems are shown to be personal and within the community that they both live in. Mary’s desire for John was not one sided at first, but it later was. John went back to his wife even though he lusted over another woman because he did not love her. In Mary’s case, her lust is destroying people and their relationships.

        John and Elizabeth Hale display actual love. They both love each other and the true desire for one another is mutual unlike what happens between John Hale and Mary Warren. Elizabeth loves John Hale to the extent of forgiving him for what John had done with Mary. Even in the end Mary was still a very calm and loving towards John and defended him when they asked him if he had really been unfaithful to Elizabeth with Mary.

        There is a difference between love and lust. John treats his wife, Elizabeth, with more respect and attention. John Considers more of her feelings on things that are important to him and develops more feelings for Elizabeth and wants to be close again. Elizabeth and John are spiritually joined and very mentally joined.                 The lust between Mary Warren and John doesn’t require any of these things. This lust began as something they both wanted and then John does not have the same interests later on, at least John does not. John is no longer interested in having relations with her.  Love and Lust are two different things given that while lust offers a short-term feeling and exhilaration and negative consequences. Love strives on friendship, peace and serenity between two people giving the effort to keep each other going.