The police station is a key part of the book's development. For Pip, the station is a dreary place, which reminds her of last year's horrors. “Everything inside this building was hostile, a bad memory” (Jackson 71). Being there makes her feel scared and nervous. It's a place where she has gone several times with information, but no one ever believes the case is important, and later she ends up being right, but someone gets hurt in the making. “It had squealed just the same way when she was here months ago, asking Hawkins to look for Jamie Reynolds so she didn't have to. Begging him to do it. How different things would be now if only he had said yes” (71-72). If Detective Hawkins had just believed Pip, she wouldn't be suffering from the guilt …show more content…
She gets nervous and imagines the sweat on her hands is blood, making it hard for her to think straight. “A gun going off in her heart and her hands slick with sweat and Stanley's blood” (382). Entering the building, fires up her nerves; she tries to rub off any guilt as she enters the place, but as soon as she gets scared everything comes rushing back. “Pip stared him down, but her eyes were weaker than his. Blood on her hands, gun in her heart, bile at the back of her throat, and a cage tightening around her, squeezing the skin on her arms. Biting, like the duct tape had” (400). The police station feels like a cage to her as she is suffocated by her guilt and fear, which she's engulfed in. Her fear of being caught for Jason’s murder erupts when she enters the building, and increases when Hawkins confronts her. The setting is crucial to determining the theme of the story, because it is where justice is established. At the police station, she was almost caught in a lie. But luckily, Ravi is able to go to the station before Pip turns herself in to Hawkins, and creates a lie that saves her life. “‘So I went down to the station to clear things
Zig Ziglar once said, “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” I feel that this quote relating to The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, means that you have to have loyalty to have success in life. This quote explains itself in the Crucible by how Elizabeth was hurt by the affair Proctor had with Abigail. Since Elizabeth is motivated by loyalty her decision to lie in court results in her loss of John Proctor by the end of the play.
In this excerpt from the book, the reader is able to learn the true intentions and motives behind Abigail’s actions. Throughout the book one is able to see how Abigail is repeatedly trying to protect herself by creating false accusations against innocent people. Abigail tries to protect her reputation by creating a hostile atmosphere; forcing others into agreeing on lying about what actually happened in the woods. What sets this quote aside from others, is how Abigail uses threats of violence and, the belief that the she might know some form of witchcraft. Abigail uses these threats in order to try to save herself and her reputation throughout the book.
The Crucible by Arthor Miller, starts of with some of the village girls dancing in the woods when they are caught by Parris. The next day Parris daughter wouldn't not wake up and neither would the Puttams girl. So the towns people started to call witch craft on the girls for dance in the woods was not acceptable at the time. The girl started to get nervous and didn’t want to be accused so they confessed and then say they saw people with the devil. The trails of witch craft started with the girls as the witnesses and would pretend to faint or be choked but the accused. One of the girls was Abigail Willaims who had an affair with John Procter so she accused his wife of being a witch so she could have John. John went to the courts with friend
Nevertheless, her attempts are futile as he dismisses her once more, putting his supposed medical opinion above his wife’s feelings. The story takes a shocking turn as she finally discerns what that figure is: a woman. As the story progresses, she believes the sole reason for her recovery is the wallpaper. She tells no one of this because she foresees they may be incredulous, so she again feels the need to repress her thoughts and feelings. On the last night of their stay, she is determined to free the woman trapped behind bars.
Darkness is a relentless force that will gradually deteriorate everything it touches unless stopped by a superior power. Darkness cannot mask light, but light can mask darkness by the power of love and grace. Elizabeth Proctor from The Crucible by Arthur Miller is hidden in the darkness by her unwillingness to forgive her husband, John Proctor for lechery. As the Puritans in Salem, Massachusetts are hanged for being falsely accused of witchcraft, Elizabeth discovers grace. In “Arthur Miller’s Introduction to His Collected Plays,” Miller explains, “the sin of public terror divests man of conscience, of himself” (51). The widespread paranoia in Salem leads Puritans to disregard their moral beliefs in order to save their lives. However, Elizabeth
A strong man will be willing to die, if it means he did it for what he believed was right. "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 shread of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Elizabeth, in a burst of terror, rushes to him and weeps against his hand. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show a stony heart and sink them with it! He has lifted her, and kisses her now with great passion." (Miller. 1232. John Proctor.) These are the words of John Proctor just before he went to the gallows to hang, for denying witchcraft. The quote above can help justify that John Proctor is the most admirable character
In the first scene of the second act of the Crucible, Elizabeth is with John. John reveals that he was with Abigail and he admitted the betrayal. There are many different ways Arthur Miller enforced his claim. Through emotional appeal, figurative language, and tone, the author has successfully used literary elements to support John’s argument with Elizabeth.
Would you be willing to die to keep your reputation clean? Would you besmirch the good name of other people for your own gain? These are the questions characters from the Crucible had to ask themselves. In The crucible by Arthur Miller, Young girls went around accusing people of witchery for their own gain this caused many people to falsely be hanged on accusations of witchery, and for some people it meant tainting their name or be hanged, like in the case of John Proctor. Arthur miller shows us in the crucible that one’s reputation is one of the most important things in
The Two Lying and Responsible “Witches” of Salem In Arthur Miller’s story The Crucible (1953), he asserts that deadly rumors and false beliefs lead to innocent deaths. These deaths total up to 19 souls hanged away from Salem, MA due to “witchcraft”. All the witchcraft talk began when Reverend Parris, Salem’s minister, caught his very own slave, Tituba, dancing in the forest along with many other girls one evening. These girls are known to be Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, Susana Walcott, Betty Parris, and plenty other wild girls of Salem.
The Crucible, a play written in the 1950’s by American playwright, Arthur Miller, is based on the chaotic witch hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts during the 1600’s. Abigail, a sinful protagonist in the play, is the root to the myriad problems that conspire throughout the play. She is to blame for the executions of innocent citizens, and for acts of lechery between marriages. An important reappearing theme throughout the play is one’s reputation and the extremes the characters would take in order to preserve their name. The characters in The Crucible, particularly, Parris, John Proctor, and Judge Danforth, use the sanctity of their names to prioritize how they will look in the public eye, rather than what is beneficial to them individually.
Quote Analysis: Miller tells us that Reverend Parris, “like the rest of Salem, never conceived that the children were anything but thankful for being permitted to walk straight, eyes slightly lowered, arms at the sides, and mouths shut until bidden to speak.” Children in Salem were expected to be happy and content with the strict theocratic society they live in. When Abigail and the other girls were found disobeying puritan laws and dancing naked in the forest, it was outrageous and unbelievable that they would rebel against the laws.
In Act 1, Scene 1 of the Crucible, Arthur Miller’s theme is evident when Abigail worryingly puts all the blame on tituba because she knows that Tituba’s race puts her at a disadvantage, thus leading to tituba lying for her own safety. Passionately trying to seek answers Parris threateningly screams, “ You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba!”(Miller 24) Tituba fearfully replies, “ No--no, don’t hang Tituba. I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir.” (24). In the quote, Parris didn’t like that tituba didn’t tell him she dealt with the devil so he threatened to kill her. Historically whipping was a method to abuse or punish slaves for misbehaving. After the beatings if still alive the slaves will suffer mental and physical distress. This image of a brutal death
When fear is struck in desperate minds, they are capable of taking action disregarding the lives of others as well as the basic rules of civilization. The play written by Arthur Miller, The Crucible, is a desirable example of society’s boundaries of “removing” innocent people who bring concern or unease into their lives, this hysteria is astonishingly relatable to the discrimination of Japanese- Americans/Canadians during and post WWII. As Nelson Mandela once said: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” [FOOTNOTE] This quote
Some literary analysist may consider the character, John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a tragic hero; however, his behaviors presented in the play represent an adulterer, a liar, and someone who has selfish qualities. John Proctor makes decisions that create destruction and hurt in which results to chaos. Although he does suffer from his actions throughout the play he never learns that the truth is the best route. He does display both internal and external conflicts which does finally produce a man of honor. John Proctor, a wise and virtuous man who tampers with the justice system and his emotions are based off what goes on in court that day or month etc.
People make life or death choices every day. In The Crucible, John Proctor and others decided dying honestly was better than living a lie. At this time, countless were accused of witchcraft and working with the devil in the town of Salem, MA. In this play, Reverend Hale told Elizabeth proctor “no principle, however glorious, is worth dying for.” He argued that living a life of dishonesty is better than dying for the truth, trying to persuade John to live, but as a devil's advocate. But John believed no life was worth living if it was full of falsifies information.