Life and Sacrifice In our society, some people are striving for money and fame, some people are fighting for their country and religion, and some people are seeking and surviving for love. Ironically, these things that most of us are aiming for motivate us to sacrifice something important to us, in extreme cases our lives. Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a proof of a superfluous act of wasting ones life in exchange for something totally invaluable. Sacrifice, may be described as an honourable act, in fact from a realistic perspective, it is ridiculous to jeopardize our lives in order to ensure our reputations, to attain an eternal love,