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Religion played an important role in Puritan life. Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, reflects how the Puritan lifestyle should be lead. However, some did not live up to those expectations and later suffered the consequences by either imprisonment or death. In the Puritan lifestyle every man, woman, and child was expected to attend the meeting on the Sabbath without question. Puritans were required to read the Bible which showed their religious discipline. If they didn't read the Bible, it was thought that they were worshiping the devil. They were supposed to be acquainted with and abide by the Ten Commandments. Woman of the puritan lifestyle were cons