Examples Of Charity In The Crucible

The road to hell is paved with good intentions” In other words, wrongdoings are often formed from goodwill. The crucible is about a puritan town, Salem, in 1692, where innocent young girls harmlessly dancing in the forest turns into witch accusations. The crucible touches on subjects such as ‘good’ vs. ‘bad’, the community and the individual, as well as intentionality. In his play The Crucible, Arthur Miller demonstrates that character’s good intentions, more often than not, result in bad consequences.

According to Arthur Miller, “ . . . witchcraft was to forgo any understanding of how it came to pass that tens of thousands had been murdered as witches in Europe”. While reading The Crucible, we can learn three main ideas about human nature. The Crucible showed that selfishness, scape goats, and reputations. Selfishness surely did not benefit various characters in The Crucible.

A classroom of children stood around a broken picture frame. The children all had a shocked expression on their face, knowing that they were about to be in serious trouble. The picture contained their teacher’s family, and they knew it would be a big deal when she found out. When the crash happened, none of the students saw what happened. It was too busy, because they were huddled around the teacher’s desk, putting the present they got for her on it. The smashing of the glass cued the teacher to whip her head around, and she demanded that class to tell her what happened as she began to carefully pick up the broken pieces. She then explained that if no one had anything to confess, they would all get equally punished. At this point, all the hands raised. Not to admit guilt, but to point fingers at other kids. In The Crucible, when the girls are dancing in the woods, they did not think it was a big deal, but when some of the girls started to get ill, just like the glass breaking, they knew they would get in trouble. This led to a witch hunt to avoid the persecution of playing in the woods. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the character’s accusation of others, rather than accepting fault, exemplifies the human tendency to avoid persecution at all cost.

The churchgoers play a huge role in hypocrisy throughout The Crucible. While their beliefs include modesty and performing good deeds guarantees you a pathway to Heaven, many puritans would often perform a sin and then blame another individual to protect their own reputation and to deem themselves worthy of entering Heaven. (#). The biggest example of hypocrisy withins churchgoer is Abigail Williams. When Abigail is questioned on her involvement with witchcraft and the devil, she is quick to turn the blame when she tells Reverend Parris, “She (Tituba) sends her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer! She comes to me every night to go and drink blood!” (#). Abigail is falsely accusing Tituba of actions she has not committed, and when Tituba tells Reverend Parris that none of it is true, Abigail calls Tituba a liar. The hypocrisy within this is evident as Abigail not only turned all of her blame onto an innocent individual, but she yells at Tituba for lying when Abigail

There are many conflicts that arise due to decisions characters make. The characters in The Crucible by Arthur Miller all have one thing in common corrupting the entire town and is all at fault for most of the actions decisions, and conflict displayed in the book. This corruption can be described in one word: Greed. Driving the town to go after one another greed in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is the true antagonist of the book, for it provokes most of the conflict in the book. This can all be proven with definitions and impacts of greed tot all of the characters, examples and how it relates back to the plot of the book.

Many people make sacrifices to benefit the people around them, no matter the effect it has on themselves. From a mother who lives pay check to pay check pretending she’s not hungry to feed her children, from a teacher willing to stay up all night to grade papers, a helpful outcome can be the results of many sacrifices. The novelist Fay Weldon talks about a different type of happy ending, an ending created through sacrifices and changes. The ending may not be happy, but it satisfied many things. The Crucible fits with Weldon’s definition.

In “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, characters are presented with a very traumatic situation. This play takes place in Salem Massachusetts during the witch trials, which was one of the most horrific times in US History. The characters in this play display many signs of courage and truth, but are overcome by the weakness of others. There are many “heroes” in this play, but there are also many antagonists that put our “heroes” through hell with lies and victimization. In many cases we see children as nice individuals, but this play shows otherwise. These were good people who were unjustly accused of witchcraft and were frowned upon if they stood up for their innocence.

In the play, The Crucible there is a lot of injustice happening. Abagail accusing Elizabeth of being a witch, just to marry John Proctor. Then they go and tell Proctor of what happened that the “Williams girl…draws a needle out… your wife‘s familiar spirit.”(Miller). That is what Abby did to try and get Elizabeth kill so that she can stay with Proctor and take her place. Abigail using the power she makes had to accuse and kill innocent. Townspeople only had the choices of damnation or death. She condemns so many innocent people because she doesn’t want to let go of the only love she got from Proctor. “She sends her spirit on me...to laugh at prayer.” (Miller). She is blaming Tituba because she doesn’t want to get in trouble. She is also doing it to explain

Dishonest vs Injustices In The Crucible (1953), Arthur Miller tells the story of the witch trials in Salem massachusetts. The Crucible in the Salem witch trials more than 19 men and women were executed for being related to witchcraft. Several young girls were caught dancing naked in the forest, the girls claim that they to have been under a cast spell upon them by another women. Rather than admit and take their punishment the girls accused others for their actions.

Some people in today’s society believe that honesty is everything, and if they tell a lie, they have sinned and will be sent to hell. It is the same during the Salem Witch Trial time period in the 17th century in Salem, MA. The play The Crucible by Arthur Miller tells the story of the Salem Witch Trials, there is one character in particular who believes that she can get away with being deceitful, manipulative, and vengeful. Abigail Williams is the real devil for causing many deaths in Salem for dancing naked in the woods calling the devil, and from her love for John Proctor. Abigail is the one who holds most of the responsibility for meeting Tituba and the other young girls in the woods.

Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is a great portrayal of humans and their struggles. This

Bullying has increased drastically because of technology. The power of the media has influenced the lives of many Americans negatively. With a touch of a finger away, Social Media’s such as Snapchat and Instagram have allowed people to not use them in a positive way. Cyberbullying is a resulting factor. People use those media platforms to bring people’s self-esteem down. People who use these trendy network platforms allows people to help spread gossip and rumors anonymously. People who get bully among these social media platforms have a greater risk of committing suicide and self-harm. Technology has made it much easier for people to bully using electronic devices.

Cyberbullying is an issue that has created children facing suicide, illnesses and many other dangerous means of having to fight back. We used to tell kids that words were not hurtful through sayings like “stick and stones” but nowadays they most definitely are. Technology has brought being mean to a whole new level where it is very concerning of having negative effects on kids emotional well being. According to Kessel Schneider, S., O’Donnell, L., & Smith, E. (2015), “About 80% of youth are users of social media sites, and 88% of these users have witnessed acts that were cruel or mean” (p. 612). The internet is being used to harass and bully others by spreading rumors, sharing personal information and even photos that could be embarrassing to someone. According to Kessel Schneider, S., O’Donnell, L., & Smith, E. (2015), “One of the most notable trends is the pervasive use of social networking sites, some of which include

The use of social media is consuming most of lives on a daily. Every second we are constantly consumed into our phones. Let’s face it the world needs technology, and it makes it more convenient to do things. A lot of negative things happen over the internet, and social media causes people harm. Cyberbullying has increased over the last decade. People feel like they can say anything because they are behind the screen. Cyberbullying can make people feel bad, and insecure about who they are. Children especially are really sensitive to hurtful comments, and that can lead to dangerous outcomes.

If there is one character who can demonstrate that lying and pointing the finger at others is more rewarding than telling the truth, it is Abigail Williams. Abigail and a group of girls were caught dancing in the forest by Reverend Parris, Abigail’s uncle. Tituba, Parris’s slave, was also there, and it appeared like they were conjuring spirits. A few days after the incident, Abigail was being interrogated by Reverend Hale, a “witch expert”, about what was truly going on. Instead of telling the truth, she pointed straight at Tituba and cried, "She made me do it! (45)”. This is a clear sign of scapegoating, and her dishonesty helped her escape out of a messy situation. As soon as all the eyes are on Abigail and when others are becoming suspicious of her, she points the finger at someone or creates a diversion. In