Examples Of Corruption In The Crucible

How often does a group of girls rule an entire town? In The Crucible just that happens. Everyone around the town is terrified of witches and the girls are the ones most commonly said to be affected by them. These girls then become the court. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has the recurring theme of justice and fear to show corruption.

(Don’t forget to add transitional phrases.)The characters in The Crucible use God to justify everything that happens. When things go wrong it’s because they upset God, or, as Mr. Putnam says, “Don’t you understand it, sir? There is a murdering witch among us, bound to keep herself in the dark,” (Miller, CITATION). They are all so worried about the wrath of God that “even as they beg for mercy and sympathy… they act in accordance… with that other component of the divine will—justice—which God has specifically chosen not to express by substituting the covenant of grace for His justifiable wrath,” (Budick, 28). The wrath of God is one of the most terrifying things so if they can blame a witch then

Mary Warren doesn’t want to be hanged as a witch and her fear is even more solidified when they start accusing people and getting them to confess as witches. The first instance of this is with Tituba, the women out in the woods with the girls making the pot of stuff to conjure the spirits. She gets accused of hurting some of the girls with witchcraft and she replies with, “I don’t compact with no Devil!’ Parris: You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba! … Tituba, terrified, falls to her knees: No, no, don’t hang Tituba! I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir. (Miller, 42). This is the first trial in The Crucible and it sets up how the rest of the trials are run. The trials are run unfairly. They have no solid evidence but they still convict the people. Dennis Welland comments on the way the trials are run