John Proctor's Reaction To The Crucible

The Crucible is a fictionalized story of salem witch trials, it took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. In the story, Arthur Miller interprets the characters to have some kind of “beef” toward each other. Arthur Miller foreshadowed the truth to make the reader feel uncomfortable and want to know what will happen, this is actually made this story interesting. Arthur Miller shows that fate is something you can realize, but it can be changed.

In the story, John Proctor change his mind and tear up the confession. The reason for him to did that could be because he wants to protect his name as his perception of a morally righteous person. Rebecca Nurse shocked with John Proctor’s decision, Mr. Danforth accused that the confession is

a lie, John Proctor then get charged and will be hang.
In After the Fall, Arthur Miller wrote, "The word now is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks." For what I can understand, It’s mean that his word can be something in one day, but that thing would not be anything to him.
The Crucible might be still relevant today because there are people that learning this in their subject, some people like Arthur Miller’s quote that he used in that book.
Arthur Miller was questioned by House of Representatives’ Committee On Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meeting he had attended.

Arthur Miller also wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government ostracized people for being communists.

American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." Although fear is a common human emotion, our response to it varies. This quote can be related to The Crucible at some point. The first thing that first came up on my mind about this quote is about Mr. Danforth with his decision. He choose to believe the children that pretending over the adults that try to speak the truth.

The quote “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." can also be mean that fear is a state of mind that can cause inaction and is generally harmful. The other scene from The Crucible that can be related to this quote is when Tituba confessed something that she doesn’t even did, she lied to avoid from being punished. Another story is when Mary Warren get sported by the other girls such as pretending that they got some kind of spell when she was trying to tell the truth, even if Mr. Hale said they are pretending, Mr. Danforth choose to believe the girls. Mary Warren then also lied to the court just to avoid

punishment.
In my opinion, the Crucible is interesting and fun to try to understand the story, but when I start to understand the story, I just feel really uncomfortable while reading it, I’m sad and angry at the same time. It was a horrible experience for me after watched the movie version, I wouldn’t watch it again.