Dishonesty In The Crucible

In the story “The Crucible”, there seemed to be two distinct sides to the accusations of witchcraft: the accusers and the accused. Nearly all of the characters fell onto one side or the other, whether it was by choice or it was because they were forced into it. Many of the poorer, subservient people in the story were accused simply because others did not like them. Many who tried to stay out of it or tried to defend the accused, got accused themselves. These people were put through much calamity even though they were innocent of the crime of witchcraft.

Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible take us to Salem Massachusetts, in the spring of 1692. People in town were vengeance and accuse each other of being with the Devil. John Proctor belongs to the middle class and his dishonest and full of guilt. The guilt forces him to make some unwise decisions that affect those closest to him. In addition, it puts his family in danger. Proctor comes to the conclusion that loves and family are only things that matter and he will do whatever it takes to protect his family.

In The Crucible, Arthur miller writes, “No one was naked! You mistake yourself, uncle.”(Miller 144) In other words it shows that Abigail is lying about the girl who was naked and dancing with them at night in the middle of the woods. She told Paris that there was no girl dancing in the woods because she knows that they will all get in a lot of trouble so she start lying. This relate to my topic because it is about lying, and how the play started by how a lie drag another lie which lead to people dying.

The Crucible has a few themes relating to honesty and deceit, but the most prominent example is how eventually the truth will always come out. It’s a theme that’s directly tied to the events the play is inspired by. Obviously, the hanging of witches is silly in hindsight, but the example that’s seen throughout the play is how the girls lied to the town, and how the town slowly learns this. Because the truth always comes out, everyone knew of how the children lied for their own gain.

In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, many characters commit the sin of dishonesty, each with a different motive. The strict Puritan setting of the play often forces the characters to compromise their honesty because they feel as though their only solution is to lie. Even though Abigail and John Proctor did have an affair, Proctor denies the .Everyone will lie to save their life.Abigail,Proctor,and the rest of the girls are some of the people that lie.

Vanity vs. Honesty In today’s society, people tend to base most of their life on vanity. Too many people think that if they aren’t constantly impressing someone, then they become less of a person. People basing their lives around vanity is nothing new, this has been happening since the beginning of humankind.

Humans tend to lie for a variety of reasons. Some lie when they are scared of the consequences. Some are used to lying on a daily basis. Some just want to be in everyone's good graces. Many characters have lied and deceived others either to preserve their reputation or to achieve something important in the 1953 play The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

The phrase “honesty is the best policy,” applies to Arthur Miller’s history-based drama, The Crucible, in a variety of ways. The accusations throughout the story build on lie after lie after lie from those trying to protect their own name, thus putting the whole town in a state of confusion and chaos. Nobody in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts knows whom to trust anymore, after all of the false allegations made. There are three characters in particular in the story that, if they had told the truth from the commencement, the town would have been in a state of peace rather than mayhem. If Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Elizabeth Proctor had been honest, many innocent lives could have been spared and Salem would not be in such

Mackenzie Siverson Ms. Firavanti English 2H October 2014 As a child, we are taught honesty is always the best policy, and we would have punishment for lying. In the well known play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, he uses the characters to show honestly during the trials and the benefits and consequences of it. The girls of Salem, being accused of witchery is often faced with the choice to lie or tell the truth about the actions and choices they made, and it would be the deciding factor on whether they are imprisoned, or set free. He also shows how it affects the characters emotionally, whether it frees them, or harms them. The examples that Miller uses in The Crucible, clearly shows how honesty affects the characters and the outcomes of

There are many ways to spot a liar and these tips could help you because liars are all around us. One way you can tell is ig the person won’t look you in your eyes. Someone who is lying more than likely can’t look you in the eyes because their eyes betray their lies. A second way to tell is the person who is lying story won’t make sense. In the Crucible Abigail stories didn’t really match up and when they did not match up she would try to move the attention off of her. That brings me to the third way you can tell if a person is lying, if they are trying to take the attention off themselves . Abigail took the attention off her by making up imaginary things and say she was seeing them.

The founding fathers of our Constitution held firmly to the principle of justice in which “Every man is presumed innocent until he is proven guilty.” There have been several episodes in history in which communities violate this principle and allow unsubstantiated accusations to drive their justice system. As depicted in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, during the Salem witch trials, to be accused of “witchcraft” was to be guilty. To be guilty meant a death sentence, which could only be avoided if one was to confess their guilt and to identify other “afflicted girls.” During the McCarthy era, a strikingly similar situation aroused when suspected

Lying is a bad thing that people do everyday. It might be a small white lie or a huge lie but people lie everyday. Lying is usually used to get someone out of a situation, whether it be good or bad. In the crucible, abigail accuses mary of lying in her testimony because she wants her own ruse to keep going. She still hopes that somehow, these false accusations will help her win john proctor in the end.

People are often told that lying is the wrong thing to do; it is evil, inhumane, and overall terrible. Despite this fact, lying has been shown to hand people multiple benefits. These benefits can be anything from getting out of doing house chores to looking cool in front of classmates. Because of this, many people use this form of deception to remove themselves from unwanted problems in the community. The Crucible, a play written Arthur Miller, portrays a disrupted society where people are accused of witchcraft for any abnormal activity. The accused witches are either forced to “confess” to their involvement with witchcraft or be executed in the gallows. The characters in the play display to the readers that lying provides protection towards people in different ways.

Do individuals interested in the facts and history of literature ever wonder how similar conflicts are solved in far contradicting time periods? In the plays, Macbeth by William Shakespeare and The Crucible by Arthur Miller, readers catch a glimpse of how two similar but different feuds are dealt with between the two communities. Whether it’s witchcraft or the ruling of twisted former general, the pieces of literature share a point with crime and dishonesty. With the theme corruption, these two pieces of literature display how wrong doings are taken care of and restored in two differing situations and time periods.

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself” (Addams). Immorality is a very subjective concept, but sometimes it is undeniable. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Abigail Williams is shown to be the most immoral character through her constant disregard of others throughout the different events of the story, furthering the point that when in fearful situations people will only think about themselves.