Cause And Effect Of Lies In The Crucible '

The crucible is a story about witchcraft, it takes place in the 1600’s in a British Colony of Massachusetts. During this time witch hunts swept through Europe, resulting in many people being killed.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an interpretation of the Salem witch trials of 1692 in Puritan Massachusetts in which religion, justice, individuality and dignity play a vital role. These factors define the characteristics of many of the most significant characters in the play. Some of them being John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Reverend Hale, Danforth and many others. The Salem witch trials were a result of the lack of expression of individuality and the fact that no individual could expect justice from the majority culture as a result of the deterioration of human dignity in the Puritan society of Salem.

Abigail was a servant in Proctor´s house. Elizabeth was not a very loving woman. Proctor fell for Abigail created an affair with her. “After he had confessed it to Elizabeth, she dismissed her from her service because she did not want to tell the people in Salem that the reason was the affair between John and Abigail.” (Dulain). Abigail, Tituba and the girls went to the forest in the morning. They danced and murmured words, Abigail drank blood to curse John Proctor’s wife Elizabeth, and she would do anything to have John Proctor. Reverend Paris fond blood, Abigail and the girl’s dancing, and mercy naked. Abigail knew drinking blood is a form of witchcraft, so she tries to cover up on what they actually did in the forest. She threatens the girls to not say a word or she will harm them. "Let either of you breathe 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." (Miller)

The Crucible, a historical play based on events of the Salem witchcraft trials, takes place in a small Puritan village in the colony of Massachusetts in 1692. The witchcraft trials, as Miller explains in a prose prologue to the play, grew out of the particular moral system of the Puritans, which promoted interference in others' affairs as well as a repressive code of conduct that frowned on any diversion from norms of behavior.

In society, we are blind to the lies that are taking place around us every day. Small lies, big lies, lies right in front of our face, and we are oblivious to almost all of it. This is shown really well in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Throughout the play, which takes place during the witch trials that took place in Salem, lies make up a big portion of the plot. Some of these types of lies that are used are described very well in Stephanie Ericsson’s essay The Ways We Lie. These variations of lies amplify the outrage created, through McCarthyism, and the Salem Witch trials that take place in the play The Crucible.

In 1692 the life of the citizens of Salem was challenging, they had to go through life uncertain if they would live to see another day. The biggest problem the community experienced was when honest and innocent people were accused of witchcraft. If approached for witchery, the only way to live was to lie and accuse another innocent victim. However, lying only continued the cycle of accusations. If one was accused of witchcraft and did not confess, then they would be hanged for lying and deceiving the court of Salem. The events occurring in this town forced the citizens to lose themselves and turn on one another, causing a divide in the community. In The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, the Salem community at the beginning of the play was loosely held together, but as the story progressed, the strings of unity began to break until the connections fell apart.

The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. During this time, a girl named Abigail Williams forms people’s belief in witchcraft when she claims that her slave, Tituba, bewitched her. When Tituba was given the choice of “confessing to her sin”, which means to lie about being a witch, or be whipped and executed, she chose to protect herself with dishonesty. After this event, many people began to accuse one another of witchcraft and were forced into Tituba’s situation: lie in a “confession” of their sins or be executed. With numerous accusations running around town, the people in fear of being accused would lie about their involvement with witchcraft as well as their reputation, since people with

The Crucible is a play that takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the 17th century and is based on true events. The Puritans believed in witchcraft and were gullible. At the start of the play, the audience learns some girls were caught dancing naked in the woods by Reverend Parris. They had supposedly “conjured up spirits” and this led to the accusations of the girls as witches. In order to escape the punishment, they accuse other women of the town of being witches. They say that they were approached by the devil but did not go over to his side so they are used as members of the jury.

In The Crucible the hysteria in Salem started in 1692 when a group of girls began to display strange behavior. The only explanation for the girls dancing in the woods must have been that they were bewitched. The Puritans believed that the unusual events that were happening was the work of the devil. Also, sudden droughts and floods caused the people of Salem to be more afraid and it spread

“I can only say, sir, that i never found any of them naked, and this man is..(Miller 218).” At this point of the play parris is lying about seeing the girls dancing in the woods naked. Parris knows the truth about abigail and how she is lying about the witchcraft and the dancing. This shows how lying is not the best policy because he could have told the truth and all those people would’ve be spared their lives, but instead he lies to avoid charges of

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a famous play which was written in the early 1950’s. The Crucible is a play based upon the events in 1692, which led to the ‘Salem Witch Trials’, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft. This was due to the hysteria caused by a group of girls accusing innocent people of witch craft. The play was set in Salem, Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. Salem was a very isolated and puritanical community, so their biggest fear was the devil and witchcraft. A person being accused of witchcraft was the worst thing possible in this society.

The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a historical play based on the witch trials. The witch trials Occurred in Salem in the year of 1692. Though the trials have religious and supernatural implications. Miller tends to show the troubles of many flaws. Throughout the trials many characters show many flaws in different ways. Everyone has flaws. These particular flaws lead to deadly situations. The characters in The Crucible show the flaws, Greed, jealously and vengeance.

The Crucible is a play, written by Arthur Miller in 1952, and set in the 1600 in Salem, Massachusetts. The play is about a witchcraft trial that involve almost all the Salem’s inhabitants. The witchcraft panic begin when Abigail William and her group of friends are discovered dancing in the wood during the night, and two of the girls got sick after that.

A lie can only be stretched so far before it snaps and breaks those who are in front of it, when those who are in front are innocent of anything. The very belief that a child has the power to act as a hand of god is a lie, the very essence of that lie is witchcraft, those who are deceitful among all else fail to realize what may befall those caught in the crossfire of the lies they tell. Abigail is a child who claims she is the hand of God, but uses that power to say deceitful lies to get to what she wants. The essence of a rumor can only be stretched so far before it snaps and those who were hurt are gone.

During the Salem witch trials, innocent people were being tried and hung because of the ignorance of the town. The girls lead by Abigail Williams, were accusing their neighbors of false witchcraft because of jealousy. Abigail accused John Proctor and his wife of witchcraft because she loved him and thought that he was doing her wrong by not being with her. Although John Proctor admits to the court that he and Abigail had a fling at one point. The town believed the