The Crucible is probably one of the most strangest piece of writing I have ever read. With a very interesting choice of witchcraft, but take away the nonsense of bewitching and you can actually make some connections to life. All this finger pointing and blaming isn’t just part of a make belief story. The Crucible has many tests and trials that occurs in the story and how one girl had the power to decide their fate.
The Crucible is a story that seems to be written for the purpose of teaching us how misleading others can be as the story goes on. In the story, Betty says, “You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill Proctor’s wife!” Next follows Abigail saying, “Shut it! Now shut it!” (Arthur Miller, 12). This indicates that Abigail has something
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to hide. For me, I normally have suspicions on someone even if they lie or try to keep a secret once. From this, Abigail admits to “witchcraft” and gets something unthinkable. The whole town decides that she is a Saint sent from God up above. They use her as a tool to detect if others have been guilty of using witchcraft and to see if they will testify to their doings. Within these trials is where the story gets its crucible name from. The definition of the word “crucible” is a set of tests or trials.
In the play, Hale states, “Man, you will hang!” (Arthur Miller, 90). This section is short but gets to the point. It shows how the trials can impact others based on their decisions. In this section of the play, Danforth is trying to convince Proctor to sign a paper saying that he pleads guilty to witchcraft. Proctor denies signing the paper and in the end gets hanged. I find this interesting because of how the system works. During this time, many were accused of witchcraft and had to go to court. Many people actually pleaded guilty, but for a good reason even if it was a lie. You see, the answer isn’t just a simple yes or no. It is much more of a life or death decision that is disguised as something more simple. If they plead guilty to witchcraft, they go to jail for a while then get to leave. However, if they decide to argue against their case, like what Proctor did, they were sentenced to hang in the gallows and to never see another day. What this may teach us is that even lying may have to be taken in certain measures, even if it is wrong, to ensure your safety. Crucibles can really show what life throws at …show more content…
us. The truth is that crucibles occur all the time in our life.
No, I am not saying that it is an everyday occurrence that you are convicted of witchcraft and have to go before a court to plead your case. My point I am trying to get across is our decisions. Crucibles are just sets of tests or trials, so they can technically range anywhere from taking a right or left in the halls or whether or not to rob a store (suggestions of theft not implied to audience). During the story, Parris is being questions. He is asked if he saw girls dancing in the woods and he replied with, “I do not, sir, but I never saw any of them naked,” (Arthur Miller, 65). Again, I am not saying that you have seen girls dancing without any clothes on in the woods. The point is that earlier we did learn that Parris saw them dancing naked in the woods. The interesting part is that he denies seeing any of them in the woods because he wanted to save one thing- his reputation. I believe a lot of us have the same issue. We lie about different things whether if it is we own some object or denying we have done something because we want to save our reputation that others have about ourselves. Secondly, lying gets us out of trouble. In the cases, they lie about guilt of witchcraft because they know the punishment is a lot less severe. This is something that all of us are guilty of. We lie because we want what we believe is easier for us and on us. No one wants to admit to something and expect to get punished unless it
is out of guilt. The book, The Crucible, is a play written about people going through a series of trials for guilt of witchcraft. Those decisions they made can actually teach us how we deal with our daily crucibles in our lives. Whether it is in a fake story or in our current world, test and trials will always be a part of life and it is our choice to decide how we answer to the challenge.
In the following paragraphs I am going to show how Hollywood portrays the Salem Witch Trails and the 1690’s compared with what actual happened in history and that in the film "The Crucible".
The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, focuses on the Salem witch trials and the extreme behavior that follows the trials. Miller shows how the dark desires and hidden agendas provokes such extreme behavior. The Crucible was written in a time when the anti-communist movement was strongly protested. During the Salem witch trials, a person was guilty until he proved himself
In the Crucible there are two quotes Parris says “You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba!” So what this means is that anybody accused of witch gets hanged. People really do not have a choice. Putnam says “This woman must be hanged! She must be taken and
In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller demonstrated that it was Abigail William’s flaws – mendacity, lust, and arrogance – that led her to be responsible the most for the tragedy of the witch hunt in Salem, Massachusetts. Driven by lust, Abigail was able to lie to the Salem community in hopes of covering her and her friends’ deeds and gaining the attention of John Proctor. Her arrogance enabled her t0 advance her deceit.
In every family, there is one child that is always very misleading and evil, and besides that, they get away with everything that they do that is unsound. The certain person in the family may break on of you mom’s favorite plate, and then end up placing the blame on you, and then persuades your parents that he or she is telling the true. Abigail Williams is the poor duplicate of that sibling or relative. She influences everyone that she is an innocent teenage girl, but that is not the case throughout the play. In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, Abigail is the bona fide misleading and evil teenage girl.
The Crucible is one of the most bizarre accounts of a historical event to date. The naïveté of the townspeople leads them down a road of madness and confusion, led by a shameless Puritan girl. Abigail Williams was a ruthless girl who showed no mercy upon accusing her victims of witchcraft. Knowing the entire town of Salem would believe her and the other girls, she would not hesitate at charging anyone she wished with the crime of the Devil’s work. However, a challenge arose to Abigail when she decided to accuse Elizabeth Proctor, and eventually her husband John, of witchcraft. The Proctor marriage was not just any simple marriage; it had its times of cold shoulders, heartfelt truth, and undying love.
A crucible is a severe test as of patients or belief, a trial. The play The Crucible is a journey through the trials of many townspeople caused by the superstitious belief of witchcraft. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller progresses and evolves the outlooks and views of the townspeople of Salem and shows how events, people, and catastrophes cause the characters to change their views on whether the people prosecuted were guilty or innocent of witchcraft. Reverend John Hale changes his view, more and more drastically as the play advances, as a result of the events that he underwent and the experiences he had. Soon he had total belief in the innocence of all those convicted and hung in Salem.
The statement,“The Crucible is essentially about courage, weakness, and truth,” is proven true numerous times, throughout the play. The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller, about the true events that happened in Salem, Massachusetts, between the years 1692 and 1693. The Salem witch trials consisted of many hangings, lies, and complete mass hysteria. The citizens of Salem followed the religion of Puritanism, and the ideas of predestination. The root of the mass hysteria comes from their belief in the sense that in something happens then it must have been planned by God. In Miller’s portrayal of the story, Abigail Williams was the ringleader of the witch trials, and she used the idea of predestination to cover up her own sins. Abigail was a very manipulative girl and ruined many lives. John Proctor, Mary Warren, and Elizabeth Proctor were just a few of the victims in Abby’s game. John, Mary, and Elizabeth exhibit the traits courage, weakness, and truth, whether it was in a positive or negative way.
Context: This part of the text is included at the beginning of the drama, telling the audience about Salem and its people. The author explains how a theocracy would lead to a tragedy like the Salem witch-hunts. This is the initial setting and is based on the principle that some people should be included and some excluded from society, according to their religious beliefs and their actions. This is basically the idea that religious passion, taken to extremes, results in tragedy. Miller is saying that even today extremes end up bad- communism, like strict puritans, was restrictive and extreme. It only made people suffer.
The Crucible is a novel based on the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts, written by Arthur Miller. The Crucible demonstrates forbidden temptation between John Proctor and Abigail Williams, honor and dishonor in the town of Salem, ruthless revenge, and the strive for high social status. The narrative style of this play is standard 1950s everyday language. The Crucible is set in a theocratic society of Puritanism in 1692.
Throughout The Crucible, Miller is concerned with conscience and guilt. Through the character Abigail Williams, he shows how people are willing to abandon their firmly-established values in order to conform with the majority and protect themselves. Those who refuse to part with their conscience, such as the character of John Proctor, are chastised for it. For this reason, the Salem witch trials raise a question of the administration of justice. During this time in the late 1600’s, people were peroccupied by a fear of the devil, due to their severe Puritan belief system. Nineteen innocent people are hanged on the signature of Deputy Governor Danforth, who has the authority to try, convict, and execute anyone he deems appropriate. However, we as readers sense little to no real malice in Danworth. Rather, ignorance and fear plague him. The mass
The Salem witch trials were a time period when any individual could be accused of witchcraft for numerous reasons. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller focuses on the deviation of the trials and how the town’s most religious and honest members of the community are tried with witchcraft. John Proctor, the town’s most honest man, is accused of being a witch and must decide if he should confess or not. Proctor’s confession will stop the town from rebelling and uphold the reputations of Deputy Governor Danforth and Reverend Parris. Hale also wishes for Proctor’s confession so he does not have to feel responsible if Proctor were to be hanged for his witchcraft accusations. The confession of Proctor would convince others in the town to confess to their
The Crucible is a 1953 play by Arthur Miller. Initially, it was known as The Chronicles of Sarah Good. The Crucible was set in the Puritan town of Salem, Massachusetts. It talks of McCarthyism that happened in the late 1600’s whereby the general public and people like Arthur Miller were tried and persecuted. The Crucible exemplifies persecutions during the Salem Witch Trials. The people were convicted and hung without any tangible proof of committing any crime. Persecutions were the order of the day. When a finger was pointed at any individual as a witch, the Deputy Governor Danforth never looked for evidence against them or evidence that incriminated them; he ordered them to be hanged. This can be seen through his words “Hang them high over the town! Who weeps for those, weeps for corruption!” (1273), the people were persecuted aimlessly. The four main characters in the play, John Proctor, Abigail Adams, Reverend Hale and Reverend Parris, are caught in the middle of the witchcraft panic in the religious Salem, Massachusetts in late 1690’s. Persecution is the most important theme in the Crucible, the leaders and citizens of Salem attacks and persecutes one of their own without any tangible evidence against them.
The Crucible is a famous play written by Arthur Miller in the Early 1950’s. It was written during the “Red scare, when McCarthyism was established. Many anti-communists wanted to prevent communism from spreading just like in The Crucible many wanted to get rid of witchcraft. Many would accuse others of witchcraft in order to not be accused just like many would accuse people of communism. In The Crucible witchcraft would be punishable by death. Many were scared to be accused; therefore many would admit practicing witchcraft in order to save their lives. The Crucible is considered a good play because it is based on real life events during the Salem witch Trials and shows how fear played a role in the individual’s life just like during the “Red” scare.
The Crucible is an incredibly influential play no only in the fact that it displays many important themes, but it also portrays how a theocracy impacts societal actions. The Salem witch trials were the culmination of the problems with theocracy. The actions of society, not only are impacted by their personal thoughts, but also in religious undertones affect them. Act two in the play portrays not only all of these themes, but also some important events leading towards the witchcraft hysteria. Act two in the play portrays how theocracy ultimately leads to chaos.