The Puritans life revolved around religion because it helped them define life. Good things that happened were from God and the bad things were from the Devil. They had a constant fear of Satan and looked for him in everything and clung to their God out of a desire for safety. Hale displays this attitude soon after his entrance in Act I scene I when he gets out his book to look up signed of the devil:
Hale: Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brude disgiuses. Here are all your familiar spirits.... Have no fear now - we shall find him out if has has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face.
Here Hale shows how fear of Satan propels these people into a legalistic type of Christianity that permeates their whole lives. The turn to relgion in fear, not love.
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