“Evil is Everywhere”
Evil is a strong word, reserved for only the most appalling human beings to ever walk this earth. Evil can take many forms. It could be a dictator who tortures his subjects and refuses a certain race or gender from having basic human rights. It could be a person who orders the destruction of an entire group of people. Or the evil could be in the form a young girl who, in her personal quest for love from a man who no longer has any interest in her, and her fear of retribution for her so called crimes of witchcraft, is content to call out the names of innocent people with whom she has lived with all of her life. She is content to watch them die just so that she can get what she wants.
The Crucible tells the tale of a group of young girls who are about to be exposed for dancing in the woods and asking a black slave, Tituba, to show them the devil. Instead of taking responsibility, they do what some young children do when they are in trouble. They lie. These girls started the most famous witch hunt in the history of this planet by simply saying that certain people were witches. Some people would call this evil, especially when the girls do not take back their lies even after their townsfolk begin to get hung. Others would simply claim that they did what most children their age do. Lie instead of take responsibility. This
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The Japanese were just put away where they would not be a problem during the war. This demonstrated a lack of care by the U.S. Government. They took the easy way out instead of taking responsibility and taking the necessary precautions. As we look back at this, we are appalled that a President that was so beloved could do such a thing. It all comes down to a desire to protect one's own interests even at the expense of
‘The Crucible’ is a great example of morally ambiguous characters. A plethora of characters with blurry ethics exist within the world of ‘The Crucible’, this makes it difficult to distinguish who is truly good and who is evil. Arthur Miller has a fantastic approach to how he displays his characters and their moral standpoints. Adultery, lying, and even the suspicion of witchcraft, within the community brings out the worst in the townspeople. John Proctor is an example of how thin the lines are drawn between a complete saint and a damned sinner.
"Power tends to corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Action. In "The Crucible" composed by Arthur Miller control, power, fear and greed were the main factors that began the Salem witch trails. Power brings out the true nature of a person and we see that happening to Abigail throughout the play. That brings me to my next point fear, Abigail used the fear of accusing people of being witches to gain power and control. It all started with Abigail misunderstanding lust for love. John Proctor thought softly of her and she began dreaming of replacing his wife willing to go to any needs necessary.
“On the bandwagon” is a term used to describe people that jump on trends that most people are doing. In The Crucible, when Rev. John Hale was interrogating Tituba, she started accusing two other citizens in hopes that the masses won’t accuse her of undergoing witchcraft/ being a witch. She is seen accusing the people, “there is Goody Good … Aye, sir, and Goody Osburn” (47) which shows Tituba’s characterization as a liar and a deceiver. However, the bandwagon is seen after she has accused the two people in which many of the other young girls also start to accuse others in hopes of not being accused. For example, when Abigail states, “I saw Sarah Good, Goody Osburn, and Bridget Bishop with the devil,” (48) many of the other girls started to accuse
Judgement is everywhere. Everyone has blamed another person and likely has been their own fault. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible the people are ready to hang someone so long as somebody cries witch. For example: reverend Hale judges people from what he has heard from
The Crucible demonstrates a dynamic relationship between fear, judgement, and death. In the Salem community, individuals were accused of witchcraft and executed based off the words and actions of others. Words that murdered innocent victims and brought hysteria to the quiet town. Malice laced in accusations charged by a few teenagers of Salem who wanted control. Abigail who is the ring leader of the entirety of the ploy, who used Christian principles, and played off the fear of others for her own gain. Arthur Miller portrays Abigail Williams as a manipulative, envious, and a deceptive antagonist which brought her fate upon herself.
“Sarah Good, confessed y’see, that she sometimes made a compact with Lucifer, and wrote her name in his black book-with her blood- and bound herself to torment Christians till God’s thrown down-and we all must worship Hell forevermore.” (Miller 57). During the Salem Witch Trials, people were accused left and right of being witches. In 1953 Arthur Miller proceeded to write a play entitled The Crucible, which portrayed what life was like during the Salem Witch Trials. In The Crucible, the actions of the characters determine how much justice is truly present in the society.
Everyone knows the feeling. The nagging in the pit of your stomach that makes you rethink your actions. The feeling that makes you nervous, sweaty and scared. Guilt, an emotion that occurs when a person believes that they have violated a moral standard. Imagine a world without guilt. People would feel no remorse in anything they did, no conscience that monitored their actions. It is a powerful feeling that can both hold people back and push them towards action. This strong emotion is portrayed in several very popular pieces of literature. In the novel Macbeth, William Shakespeare shows how Macbeth’s guilt motivates him to make fatal decisions to try and hide his culpability, such as killing the king, killing Banquo and killing Macduff’s family.
A group of teenage girls were secretly dancing in the woods with a black slave, named Tituba. When they were discovered of what they were doing, the girls started accusing certain individuals in the village of dealing with witchcraft. Within a blink of an eye, the entire village is controlled by a devil that exists within the fear of each person. A drama of suspense and impact, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, explores through the individuals' vengeance, fear, reputation, and quest for power.
The play, The Crucible, is a fireball of guilt, evil, and good compiled into one magnification. It is a play with tremendous feelings, with many inside twists hidden in the archives of the true story. It is a play with emotional feelings; feelings of anger, hate, and evil, yet also feelings of goodness, and pureness. Undeniably, The Crucible is a play illustrating good versus evil. The principal characters, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Ann Putnam and Marry Warren all contain within them elements of good and evil.
To begin with, the Crucible is a play about a town that falls to madness from witchcraft accusations. This play was based on a real, historic event, and was made because of the red scare crisis in the mid 1900s. In this play, a girl named Abigail, with her friends, get caught dancing in the woods; something seen as “unholy” at the time. They decide to ‘Admit’ that they were with the Devil, and blame a bunch of townspeople for witchcraft to divert attention away from them. One major conflict in the Crucible is that the town falls to madness from all the witchcraft accusations that happen.