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Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance. By virtue of original sin, when one is born, he has no right to salvation. Some are chosen for salvation, some are not. Nothing can change this. The extent to which one can please God with acts is limited. God showers one with a quality of grace, and one cannot resist it. Once one has been saved, nothing he does will change that fact.

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Two definitions of the word "crucible" can apply to the title of the play The Crucible, "a container for melting or purifying metals" and "a severe test." The village of Salem was a strict puritan community, a container. The contents of this container are the God-fearing people of Salem along with their feelings and emotions. Fueled by the lies and blasphemy in the town, they're finally brought to a "melting point" where they buy into the deceit and start to charge witchcraft. The accusations of witchcraft can also been seen as a melting pot.

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Plenty of people did sign false confessions, in which they were required to name others that they saw with the Devil. But many other people could not bear to falsely accuse their friends, neighbors, and families, especially since the only way those people could clear their names would be by implicating more members of the community. Like John Proctor, some people in Salem preferred to die rather than sign something that they knew was a lie. These people may have had strong religious beliefs and felt God would damn them for lying, and they may also have realized that their reputation would be restored after the witch trials were over, even if they had lost their lives. At the same time, it’s not hard to understand why someone would sign a false confession. For some, it was easier to lie and say they were witches so that they could return to their lives and families. They may have thought that they could confess to falsely confessing and be forgiven at some future point.

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As a slave, Tituba had no status in Salem. Parris could have legally beaten her to death to try to get her to confess. So while we don’t have direct knowledge of her thoughts, we can infer that having realized how dire her situation was, she concluded that it was better to give the townspeople what they wanted by confessing to something she did not do. She ended up in jail, but at least she was not beaten to death. She hates John Parris, who was cruel to her, and she uses her confession to scare him by telling him that the Devil told her “Mr. Parris no goodly man.” In her confession, Tituba says the Devil offered to fly her back to Barbados, an opportunity for Tituba to be released from slavery and returned to her home, which she misses terribly.

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The Puritans' belief in predestination made them more willing to accept the suffering of others, as it was clear that those suffering were likely already damned, and it made Puritans less likely to try to protect the suffering or alter their fate. Puritans believed in the idea of Predestination, that one's fate—whether one was saved or damned to hell—was decided before the person was born. Although one could not be sure of one's fate, being successful in life was a sign that someone might be fated for salvation. In The Crucible, the authorities, such as Reverend Parris and Danforth, are assured in part of their own rightness because they assume that their worldly success signifies that they are among the elect or saved. On the other hand, those who suffer, including those accused of witchcraft, have likely been damned before birth and deserve to die.