Examples Of Irony In The Crucible

The Crucible is a story that reveals those who are truly honourable and noble. The trials in the story also put these qualities to the test. There are many whose sense of honor is questionable, but there is also a handful of people who died with these qualities and who kept their word even to death. The irony in the story is that those who were pure at soul from the start were the ones who were accused of witchcraft, and those who accused and claimed to be innocent were the ones who deserved to be imprisoned or executed. The deaths of the innocent was a tragedy, including John Proctor. Proctor is a selfless honorable man whose death was a tragedy, despite his past mistakes. First of all, many would argue that Proctor had committed adultery,