The Theme Of Violence In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

Focus on the Real World

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, it has a variety of different themes that could come from the novel. The one specific theme that stood out to me was hostility. This theme stuck out to me because hostility happens a lot in the real world as well as it happens in books, plays and movies. I have found many news stories of things that have recently happened, and a lot of it has to do with hostility and violence.

The theme hostility relates to many different kinds of scenarios of real life and in books or movies. One real life scenario that has happened recently was a school shooting and the gunman killed 17 victims. Many people didn’t think that it was real they thought it was a drill. In the article, Gunman Confessed

He also could have been just angry in general or mad at someone else and just took it out on whomever he saw, while he was angry. Another example in the book The Crucible by Arthur Miller is “Why? Do you mean to deny this confession when you are free? I mean to deny nothing! Then explain to me. Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without a name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” - (Miller 133). This quote relates to the theme hostility because Proctor is denying his confession which means that he is going to be hung. This is considered as hostility, it is violent because people are angry, everyone is accusing each other for witchcraft, and the people being accused are being trialed and

The quote is “Three of the suicides occurred in a span of 11 days in January. Police say the suicides don't look like they are linked, and the methods the children used were varied”. This quote potentially relates to the theme hostility because the kids that commited suicide could have been being bullied by someone or multiple people. They also could have been very angry at themselves for doing something wrong and just couldn’t handle it by themselves and didn’t want to talk about it so they took their life, so they didn’t have to explain it to anyone, or didn’t have anyone to talk to. My last example from the book The Crucible by Arthur Miller is “You drank blood, Abby! You didn't tell him that! Betty, you never say that again! You will never—You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!(smashes her across the face) Shut it! Now shut it!” (pg.113). This quote relates to the theme hostility because Abigail is getting very angry with Betty because she does not want her to tell anyone what actually happened so she gets violent and smacks