Evil Atop the Mountain of Power in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The play, The Crucible, is a fireball of guilt, evil, and good compiled into one magnification. It is a play with tremendous feelings, with many inside twists hidden in the archives of the true story. It is a play with emotional feelings; feelings of anger, hate, and evil, yet also feelings of goodness, and pureness. Undeniably, The Crucible is a play illustrating good versus evil.  The principal characters, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Ann Putnam and Marry Warren all contain within them elements of good and evil.

A man 's reputation in many forms is his, life’s work. To have your reputation dismantled is like taking away one 's accomplishments and life’s work. Arthur Miller 's The Crucible is a play about justice and injustice, and how our justice system can be easily corrupted. The story revolves around a man named John Proctor, the tragic hero of this story. John Protector is a symbolic character created by Arthur Miller, because he faced the justice system head on. Proctor’s biggest flaw would be his great amounts of pride, which unfortunately led to his own death. In Arthur Millers’ The Crucible, he characterizes John Proctor as the tragic hero of the story because of all that he lost, through his relentless crusade to free his wife and exposing injustice, illustrating that no hero is perfect.

Arthur Miller has created John Proctor the protagonist of The Crucible to be a 30 year old farmer in Salem, Massachusetts, powerful of body, even-tempered and not easily led. John speaks his mind when he recognizes injustice. He is highly respected, even feared, by some in Salem. His name is synonymous with honour and integrity. He takes pleasure in exposing hypocrisy and is respected for it. However John is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time but against his own vision of decent conduct, he has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud. After admitting to lechery, John is accused of witchcraft, on this charge he is condemned.

Do you feel that your leaders ever fail to use their authority in the way you believe they should? James Madison believes that government is power, and since humans are in charge of the right, it always has the ability of being misused. Communities revert to chaos when the authority figures abuse the influence they have. Madison’s argument is correct because people in general need strong rulers, so if the privilege given to the superiors is exploited, society begins to break down.

Sometimes people can get lost in their ability to control others, your mom yelling at you to take out the trash or maybe you pinning your younger sibling down in a wrestling match. It happens to us all, even if you do not realize. It all comes with our ingrained desire for this thing we call power. This desire plagues every society, those of the past and present. For example, in the 1960s an author named Arthur Miller saw his society falling victim to this plague, so he wrote a play. Miller shows us throughout The Crucible that power and the desire for it is a disease that spreads in communities and cripples them, we see this through the actions of Abigail, Danforth, and Parris.

Names usually possess a significant meaning behind them: someone could be named after a close relative, pets named after their owner’s favorite comic character, an email address named after their favorite pastime. However, sometimes the meaning of a name is less obvious. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller recreates the anxiety and hysteria of the Salem witch-trials from 1692. Although the title, not once is the word “crucible” spoken in the play. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “crucible” three ways: “A pot in which metals or other substances are heated to a very high temperature or melted”, “a difficult test or challenge”, and “a place or situation that forces people to change or make difficult decisions” (“Crucible”). The definitions

Throughout our history has become the ultimate weapon. it turns secentist into idiots, warroirs into cowards, and blinds individuals from the truth. chaos has always orginated from fear because once fear takes over, all sense of humanity and intelligence in one disappears. while checking on Betty, Mrs. Putnam says "She ails as she must- she never waked this morning, but her eyes and she walks, and hears naught, sees naught, and cannot eat. Her soul is surely taken"displaying not only her fear for her daughter but also her ingorance as well (Miller 13). She jumped to conclusions out of fear and ignorance. to nothing can explain Mrs. Putnam"s duagther's condition, so she finds one in Witchcraft subconsciously. She does this to bring hope that

With many forms of power, it’s human nature for one to abuse this power for their own good. But does that mean it's okay to do so? The prompt is about James Madison saying that within power there will eventually be corruption or someone trying to abuse their power. In the crucible, Danforth abuses the power given to him. Well, when I always had an issue or an argument between my brother’s and I, my mother would always be the judge, and whatever she said was right and had to be followed immediately. While in The Crucible Judge Danforth is doing the same as well. What he understands is all he considers and makes a decision without thinking so much into it.

Authority is defined as the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. People who possess this power are usually kings, presidents, priests, and any person that has power over another in a particular sphere. Authority is usually is given to one by the majority, the people. Examples of the nature of authority can be found in The Crucible. Written by Arthur Miller The Crucible is a response to McCarthyism in the United States. Set in 1962 during the Salem witch trial hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts, the Crucible exposes McCarthyism as a lie based on mass hysteria. Major characters in the play that had played the most significant part on the effects of the witch trial were all authority figures. The majority people

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, there are certain themes which are quite evident as the play progresses. The story focuses in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1952, when the witch trials began spreading and affected all individuals in the society. One of the burning issues that this play introduces is the nature of authority. Authority is the power or right to make decisions, give orders, and enforce will. When the begins, the audience can right away see and observe the power that the Church had on this society. Since this was a puritan society, there were extremely strict rules for every individual in that society and all their activities focused on God and religion. This is shown when it is written, "they did not celebrate Christmas, and a holiday from work meant only that they must concentrate even more upon prayer" (Pg 4).

Power can be as easily obtained as it can be abused by any given person. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible displays the use of power dynamics in many of its characters. The exert of power presented by the proposed children of God, Abigail Williams and Mary Warren, rose to the extent of mass murder through the witch trials.

The play The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, during the Salem Witch Trials. At these witch trials, the people of Salem, such as the slave Tituba, use other innocent people as scapegoats to avoid being hung for the practice of witchcraft. Due to this belief of witchcraft, authoritative figures in the play, such as Judge Danforth, abuse their overwhelming amount of power. Miller conveys the theme of corrupted power throughout the play when he uses irony and figurative language.

In the past, every decade and every generation has had its momentous event that has shaped it and left a mark on its history. The 1600's were no different. In The Crucible, the author, Arthur Miller, demonstrates many examples of the complexity of “good” and “evil” in his characters. He does this through many characters, seen and unseen. The entire village bases its belief system on the conflict between Good vs. evil, or Satan vs. God. It may seem like evil is winning, as one innocent person after another is put to death. The towns people are mislabeling people as good or evil like Mary Warren, although they have very little evidence. Rebecca Nurse is an outstanding example of honesty, and a well-respected member of the

The traditional saying of “history repeats itself” is extensively and effectively demonstrated in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Arthur draws parallels between the concept of the witch trials and the “Red Scare” through the entire play to the old adage. The truth of this concept is that similar events continue to occur multiple times throughout history. The events that took place in the 1690’s and the 1950’s seem completely insane in today’s world; the foolishness of society’s belief system and the way situations were handled were very extreme in the past. Many people believe that humans have come a long way since the witch trials but in Arthur Miller’s play, which was written in the era of the “Red Scare” and the practice of McCarthyism, indicates that society has not progressed far from these days.

"Oh I marvel how much a strong man may let such a sickly wife be."