Causes And Consequences In Arthur Miller's The Crucible

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible the witch trials in Salem were a devastating time. The entire community was in disorder and chaos because of personal vengeance. This included accusations of innocent town’s people being called witches, so they hanged and were jailed. Throughout the play certain characters help the rise of witchcraft as well as the disapproval of all the innocent people who were being convicted for no reason. Reverend Hale is a dynamic character whom comes to rid of the evil spirits in Salem, yet he later tries to end the trials. Hale realizes the accusations are false, attempts to postpone the hangings, and persuade the victims to lie conveys that he is a dynamic character and changes throughout the play.

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.

“Hale: Quail not before God’s judgment in this, for it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws away for pride” (206). Reverend Hale’s eye-opening words make Elizabeth realize that John Proctor should do the right thing for God, even if that includes lying. This quote relates to the Salem witch trials because during this time, the court was getting involved with the town, so everybody had to constantly tell the truth. Overall, the play gives a feeling of the Salem witch trials by using facts and events relevant to the time period. On a similar topic, Arthur Miller feels that everybody is vindictive, manipulating, and betraying each other; therefore, Miller uses his troublesome experience to commemorate the demeaning investigations of witches. Miller’s high disapproval of the American government, especially how the court handles situations, is greatly represented in his play. The characters change throughout the story, and they start to realize that it is not all about what the government wants for their life. They soon enough start thinking and speaking for themselves which leads to big decisions and disapproval from the American government. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, he artistically manipulates the authentic facts of the Salem witch trials’ victim John Proctor to fiction in order to similarly represent his interrogation during the Red Scare while also putting a spin on the trials through his style, characterization and tone.

The Crucible is a play that takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the year 1692 and in short contains Abigail the Reverend’s niece accusing several women of practicing witchcraft. This leads to a witch-hunt. John Proctor and his wife Elisabeth realize that Abigail, with whom John once had an affair with, started all this in order to get Elizabeth hung in order for her to be able to get back together with John. Trying to save his wife’s life John testifies in court about the affair. Elizabeth trying to save her husband, and not knowing he admitted to it, denies it causing John to be accused of witchcraft. John was offered the chance to sign a confession and save his life but refuses to do so as he is concerned over the innocent citizens

Lying leads to terrible tragedies. Lying for so long will create consequences and over time they will be difficult to overcome. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, in the beginning of the 1692: Salem Witchcraft Trials. The story is centralized around John Proctor, a white, landowning Puritan, who betrays his wife, Elizabeth, by having sexual relations with Abigail Williams. Back in the day, everything was black and white, meaning if something is not about God then it must have been about the Devil, they were religious people and would not accept the fact that Proctor had sexual relations with someone else outside of his marriage. He denies that nothing ever happened between him and Abigail. While Proctor is not

A single lie can ruin your reputation. In the Crucible, having trust on someone is essential to a person, and you can be in a risky situation and make a mistake to protect a person. The play has viewed that people's errors can lead to severe consequences. In the play, Proctor had lied to Elizabeth’s face about being alone with Abigail. Proctor determines that he cannot lie anymore because his name is all he has considered for since he has lost it all. In Arthur Miller’s play, the Crucible, he demonstrates the theme of blindness and silence through the actions and choices of the characters.

Lying is a prominent theme that drives the plot of Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. Abigail Williams lies to the people of Salem in the very beginning of the story to explain why she was so suspiciously seen in the woods with a slave, Tituba. She lies to protect herself of being accused of witchcraft, but she has no hesitation pointing a finger at any other innocent person just as long as she shifts the focus of the town away from her own self. She lied with a persistent and persuasive attitude; convincing many other girls to do the same, consequently allowing so many people to die in the name of witchcraft. Abigail’s lies became so involved they went as far as trying to separate John Proctor from his wife Elizabeth, thus Abigail could then

The Crucible The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about witch craft but it is also about how you can lie and kill people that are honest, to just get what you want. You find out that there was cheating going on and a guy that almost lost his wife over it because she went cold. There is this man guy named John Proctor that is the main part of the play. Since John Proctor is motivated by guilt his decisions to die an honest man and it reveals that the truth is the only way to unbundle lies.

Lying can cause a town to fall apart leaving nothing but corruption. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller the small town of Salem, Massachusetts is ravaged by lying, greed, and corruption. Abigail Williams is the seventeen year old orphaned niece of Reverend Parris that corrupts the town by spreading lies and rumors that people in the town are practicing witchcraft just so she can get her way. In the play Abigail tells the other girls to lie in court and accuse people of Practicing witchcraft. John Proctor is a well respected farmer in the town who realizes that all the accusations of witchcraft are false.

Arthur Miller in his play “The Crucible”, shows how most characters try to save their lives by admitting their mistakes and telling the truth. Abigail and John’s lies continue the play. In the very beginning of the play, we believe that John Proctor is a sinner and a feared man in Salem. John Proctor had some sort of affair with Abigail, this comes out while they are both talking in Betty’s room. John Proctor doesn’t want anyone to know

Terry Brooks, an American fictional author once said, “We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.” This quote relates to the characters in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller because of the problems that they face. Already challenged with tough decisions, the characters continue to test each other throughout the play by the ways that they lie, the ways that they make false accusations, and the ways that they ultimately die for a cause.

The reduction of Proctor’s age, allowing the affair with Abigail, alters both his motivations and his status in the Salem trial. It has been stated by Miller that he identifies strongly with Proctor, due to his own adultery and failing marriage (Lecture 02/03/17). Because of this identification, Proctor becomes the hero and focus of The Crucible when in fact it is the accused and convicted that are at the center of the events, the horrors the presumed witches endured could potentially be forgotten by readers, the real significance of the events is lost. As stated previously, the insertion of the affair alters Proctor’s motivations to speak up against the trials, in the play, it is Proctor’s guilt regarding the event that motivates him to call out against the judges. Historically, what prompted Proctor to do such a thing was the fact that his own son had been tortured to denounce witches in Salem (Lecture 2/03/17). By attributing the flaw of adultery to Proctor and making him confess it, Miller adds what he views as a layer of heroism to the protagonist, once again diverting our attention from the real heroines of the story, women like M. Corey and S. Good who spoke up against the trials (Lecture

How would you respond if no one in the world believes what you claim, and people, who are after your position and wealth, are increasingly accusing you for an alleged scandal? This hopeless situation is the main theme of The Crucible. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1953 based on the Salem witch trials during the late 17th centuries. As the play gets closer to the end, some characters undergo dramatic changes, and some do not. In the play, Judge Danforth remains stubborn and merciless; he indifferently sentenced nineteen innocent people to death by hanging, solely based on a group of girls’ false statements. He imprudently believed that testaments from children would always be true. Mary Warren, who initially pretended with Abigail and her fellow girls, changes her mind (although forced by John Proctor) to reveal their pretense. However, she lacked fortitude and hysterically accused John Proctor, siding with girls. This outcome of the climax eventually confines Proctor into jail. I believe that, John Proctor undergoes the most changes among the characters, because he decides to give a false testament on the following day of his hanging, and then later refuses to hand it to the judge, feeling remorse about it.

In every literary work, there are themes. A theme is a broad idea, moral or message of a book or story. One individual may construe the themes of a book or story differently than another, but that is the pure beauty of themes. One great literary work is The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller. Succinctly, the play is about the Salem witch trials that took place in Massachusetts in 1692. Throughout the story, the townspeople indict their neighbors of being a witch and practicing witchcraft. On the surface, this historical drama has a few universal and enduring themes. Themes are universal because regardless of where in the world, the ideas still relates to everyone and is understood. Themes are enduring because the ideas are found

Arthur Miller was one of the leading American playwrights in the 20th century. Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915 in Harlem New York City to Isidore and Augusta Miller (GradeSaver). After graduating from high school, Miller worked a variety of odd jobs including hosting a radio program; this was before the University of Michigan accepted him. At school, he studied journalism, became the night editor of the Michigan Daily, and began experimenting with theater and writing plays. He lived through the Great Depression and it seemed that the fragility and susceptibility of human existence in the modern era manifested into the playwright. Miller wrote plays for the Federal Theatre, which provided work for unemployed writers, actors, directors, and designers. Miller 's creative writing career span was over a sixty year span and during this time, Miller had written twenty-six plays. He wrote The Crucible in 1953 then later wrote the screenplay for the movie version which was produced in 1996 (CliffNotes, Authur Miller Biography).