Examples Of Revenge In The Crucible

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How Revenge Drives People to Do the Unthinkable Make notes in your reading of the theme of revenge. Analyze the theme of “revenge” as Miller develops it in The Crucible. The feeling and act of revenge is known to many people. It is often characterized as getting payback on a person in order to gain self-satisfaction. We can most likely all look back at a time when we thought somebody wronged us or made us feel pain. Do you not ever want the person causing the pain to feel a piece of the hurt? This is the feeling of revenge. You can find an easy picture of what revenge looks like when you watch young children argue or fight. Children who hurt others feel that they have been hurt and they try to even up the score. Sometimes people will go through …show more content…

There are people who are rich and there are people who are poor. There are people who are religious and there are people who are not. There are people who hold grudges, who dislike certain people, and do not get along. They feel as if their lives would be better off without the people whom they dislike. So, when witchcraft is brought up as a possible solution to the minister’s daughter’s illness, people start to accuse the people they dislike because they know that witchcraft is a crime worthy of hanging. The characters get revenge on their fellow townspeople by blaming them of being involved with witchcraft. In doing this, they use the church as a standard for persecution and they are not directly involved with the almost certain death of the person they …show more content…

Ann Putnam had spent a great deal of her life trying to find out how only one of her eight children survived at childbirth. The blame simply had to go to someone and who better than the midwife of these children? She claims that Rebecca Nurse, her midwife, used witchcraft to kill her babies at birth. Rebecca Nurse is one of the most respected, wise, sensible, and upright women in the community but was still put to death as a result of Ann Putnam accusing her. She was put to death to help Ann Putnam feel a sense of justice, revenge, and self-satisfaction. This is an example of the extremes people will go to in life so that they can have a high self-esteem and someone can be put to blame. The people in Salem got so caught up in the people they disliked and their misfortunes that they lost sight of

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