Good Vs. Evil In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

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The Crucible Theme Essay
Good Vs evil

The year is 1693 and the people in Salem village are calm until Reverend Parris( The town's pastor) finds a group of girls dancing in the woods around a fire and chanting songs.Reverend Parris’s daughter then starts to become unconscious and will not wake up. The true theme of this play I believe is Good vs Evil. The reason people may believe this is because there are many instances where God is brought upon in this play and so go towards Satin which represents the theme Good Vs Evil. Human nature can never escape good versus evil, so by Arthur Miller writing about good versus evil in the play The Crucible he is showing that it is a universal theme.
This first Quote comes from the beginning of the …show more content…

Mrs. Putnam: They were murdered, Mr. Parris! And mark this proof! Last night my Ruth were ever so close to their little spirits; I know it, sir. For how else is she struck dumb now except some power of darkness would stop her mouth? It is a marvelous sign, Mr. Parris!
Putnam: Don’t you understand it, sir? There is a murdering witch among us, bound to keep himself in the dark. (I.103-110)”. This quote can prove the them of being Good Vs Evil being that in this part of the play a good thing happened which was that the babies are born and then the constant struggle was that she lost them ever one to unnatural or unknown causes.
The second quote is from the middle of the play preferably the third at in which the climax of the story has reached its peak people have started to accuse people to stay out of trouble of the price that in which is to be hung. Here is the quote”Proctor: Mary, tell the Governor what they—(He has hardly got a word out, when, seeing him coming for her, she rushes out of his reach, screaming in horror.)
Mary Warren: Don't touch me—don't touch me! (At which the girls halt at the door.)
Proctor, astonished: Mary!
Mary Warren, pointing at Proctor: You're the Devil's …show more content…

Proctor, as Danforth's wide eyes pour on him: Mary, Mary!
Mary Warren, screaming at him: No, I love God; I go your way no more. I love God, I bless God. (Sobbing, she rushes to Abigail.) Abby, Abby, I'll never hurt you more! (They all watch, as Abigail, out of her infinite charity, reaches out and draws the sobbing Mary to her, and then looks up to Danforth.)
Danforth, to Proctor: What are you? (Proctor is beyond speech in his anger.) You are combined with anti-Christ, are you not? I have seen your power; you will not deny it! What say you, Mister? (III.496-519)”. As the reader can clearly see at this point in the play right or wrong has been completely erased in this society because everybody just wants to save there own skin therefore signs of evil are present.And therefore proves the reasoning of the theme even more.
These quotes can higley prove the theme as there are many other instances in the play where there are signs of both good and evil but in this play the point that Arthur Miller wanted to make to all of the readers is that the bad overtakes the good in this play as in portrayed in all of the quotes stated

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