Key Themes In The Crucible

In the Crucible there are many themes and motifs through out the story. It also introduces us to the stage of terror they had going on because of suspicion and hysteria. The Crucible is about numerous things but there are only three main things that make this story. The Crucible is about Weakness, truth, and courage all throughout the story.
Weakness is the poverty of strength and quality to do something. There is a lot of weakness shown in The Crucible. It was shown by fear or of just being tired of fighting. One character that showed weakness was Abigail Williams. She showed weakness lying about going into the woods because she was afraid of getting into a great deal of trouble. In the passage she said “Let either of you breath a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” This lets us know that Abigail was willing to kills someone just because she did not want the truth to get out. That is weakness because she does not have the strength to take whatever consequence come to her for telling the truth. This leads into why truth is the next important thing in this story.

Truth is the real fact or the story of something that really happened.

It is not something that is made up or imaginary. Multiple characters showed truth in this play but the one that showed it the most was John Proctor. He showed truth because he was the one to tell everyone everything about how he sinned in order to save his wife. “ I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung the doom of my good name—you will believe me, Mr. Danforth! My wife is innocent, except she knew a whore when she saw one!” This shows that he wants to tell the truth and admit anything he can to tell them that his wife has done nothing. He told the truth and was not afraid to do so. In order to tell the truth you have to have the courage to do

so.
The last thing is Courage. Courage is having the mind set or spirit to do or say something that has never been done with a brave heart. Mary Warren shows this. She showed courage by going into the courtroom and telling everybody that what she and the girl have done was all a lie. In the passage she says “ It were pretense, sir.” This reveals to us that she was string and told everyone the truth about the whole thing. Another character was John Proctor he also showed courage when he decided that he did not want to blacken his name and let them hang him. “ I can. And there’s your first marvel that I can. You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor…” This is telling us that he is willing to do so because he has shown goodness and was tired of lying.
The Crucible was a very diverse story in which it taught many people numerous lessons. To know that there have been people that have actually been through this shows that anything can happen at any given moment. This story shows us many examples of being strong and learning how to deal with consequences.