Examples Of Grudges In The Crucible

“Vengeance is walking in Salem.” (------) This is an important quote in The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, for many reasons. The Crucible is a story about people of a town named Salem accusing and being accused of witchcraft. Since the conditions in the town are not good at this time the people use an excuse for why bad is happening to them. What other way to do this than to accuse others of being witches and causing harm. The most important reason is that John is expressing that witches aren’t even the main focus of what is going on. The main focus in Salem is revenge and the witches are just a gateway to be used to attack others. As much as The Crucible may seem as an entertaining story about witches to the average reader, if you look deeper one may see the deeper meaning being portrayed by the story itself. The main elements that are trying to be shown in the story are human weakness, hypocrisy, and vindictiveness. These three elements are shown continuously throughout the story. It may go undetected by the common reader, but with a little bit of an open mind, he or she may really see what Arthur Miller, the author of the story, was really trying to get across.

Morgan Sharp Ms. Weldon English 3 14 September 2016, Period A Grudges were a huge factor not just in the play but also in the real-life Salem witch trials. Back then they didn’t have much evidence to support such statements and since Puritan towns were not only pure but also cautious, they couldn’t risk having a witch in the town. People were extremely dependent on other people's word therefore if someone was more trusted than others in a town, then they would believe the more trusted person rather than the accused. This made it simple for people with grudges to take advantage of the system and accuse whomever they want if that’s what they chose.

The year is 1692. Throughout the small, Puritan, seaside community of Salem, rumors and accusations fly like gusts of ocean wind. Neighbors turn on neighbors, and even the most holy church-goers are accused of being the devil’s servants. The Crucible details this real-life tragedy of the Salem witch trials, in which nineteen members of the Salem community were hanged for alleged witchcraft. Abigail Williams, a seemingly innocent girl, accuses dozens of Salem’s citizens of witchcraft through the support of her mob of girls and the complicity of the court officials. The title of this play gives significant insight into the experiences of several of these Salem citizens. Although a crucible is often used in chemistry for heating up substances, the title of the play carries a much greater weight. In his famous play The Crucible, Arthur Miller uses the title of “crucible” to signify the severe and unrelenting tests of faith and character that many of the community members endure throughout the Salem witch trials, which he achieves through the use of figurative language and fallacies of relevance and insufficiency.

Many of the characters in Arthur Miller's The Crucible have specific human flaws that cause the tragedy of the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem villagers exhibit failings, including greed, vengeance, and fear, which eventually lead to the downfall of their town. Many villagers, especially Abigail Williams, take advantage of the opportunity to seek vengeance on others through the trials. Greed for power and land often holds precedence when the hysteria takes over. Fear of being arrested or put to death is the key motivation in turning others in as witches. From these three human flaws, the town of Salem falls into chaos with many innocent people paying the price.

Arthur Miller writes about the tragic results of human failings in his play, The Crucible. He presents characters from the past and infuses them with renewed vitality and color. Miller demonstrates the horrifying results of succumbing to personal motives and flaws as he writes the painful story of the Salem witch trials. Not only do the trials stem from human failings but also from neglect of moral and religious considerations of that time. Characters begin to overlook Puritan values of thrift and hope for salvation. Focusing on the flawed characters, they begin to exhibit land lust, envy of the miserable and self-preservation.

Grudges play a huge role in the crucible, family accusing family. It was a good opportunity for those in the community who had a vendetta. The whole judicial system was set up to punish the accused whether they plead guilty or innocent. Being accused was basically a death sentence, because nobody could prove the witness or the accused, and in the court, the witness was never at fault. There are multiple examples in the crucible of this false accusing, whether for greed or revenge.

In The Crucible, there was a lot of senseless behavior. The purpose of The Crucible is to educate the reader on the insanity that can form in a group of people who think they are judging fairly upon a group of people. Judge Hawthorne believes what he is told by certain people is the truth even if little evidence is to be shown. The young girls with Abigail convince Hawthorne of others being witches so that Abigail can get what she wants, John Proctor, also so that Abigail does not blackmail the girls. The Crucible by Authur Miller investigates the effects of hysteria, superstitions and repression on the Salem Community in the late 1600’s.

The Crucible is a complex and intriguing novel with events, characters and themes comparable to almost every period of human history. It is common for humans to fear change and what is unknown, in the play The Crucible this is witchcraft and the devil, in more recent times it can be seen in post World War Two and Cold War United States, through McCarthyism. The themes in the crucible are as important to people in the 21st century as in Salem in 1692. These include justice, reputation, hysteria, intolerance and empowerment. All of these are common themes throughout human history. The characters in The Crucible are also important to people of the 21st century as they can teach us a little bit about people around us and their reactions when

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a tragic story of injustice suffered by an innocent community who are subjected to the hypocritical, prideful judges of their trial. These Judges use their power to eliminate evidence of their mistakes and return their community to puritanical ways. The leaders of Salem are not concerned with seeking the truth and justice, but with maintaining their authority and reputations; this objective leads them to consistently rejecting truth, against all logic and evidence of their senses.

Arthur Miller conveys an intrusive community where characters strive for a clean name in The Crucible, which is still evident in modern day through the action of politicians and celebrities maintaining their images using different communication techniques. The Salem witchcraft crisis reflects the personal reputation of the characters, similar to how Americans make decisions based on their appearance on social media. The Crucible is useful to modern Americans because they can learn from the past through mistakes and common themes that are presented in the play.

The “Crucible” presents the theme of hysteria that was crucial to the plot of the story. Hysteria is the uncontrollable excitement or emotion of humans. In the story, there were many outbreaks of emotion that caused for the whole population to go insane. The whole town had become cautious of anyone practicing witchcraft. For example, Danforth questions, “You are charging Abigail Williams with a marvelous cool plot to murder, do you understand that?” This quote illustrates to the readers that the whole town has charged a woman guilty of witchcraft as a result of everyone blaming each other. No solid evidence was presented, but since witchcraft was looked very down upon in society, the people of the community did anything to prevent it from spreading. Miller in the 1950s, was also accused guilty by association. In the 1950s, people everywhere were afraid of communists taking over the country. Miller was associated with a few communists, but he was never a communist himself. Everyone accused him guilty of being a communist and locked him up to send a message that the communists were not wanted at all, even though there was no real solid evidence that he was a communist. He used Abigail in the story to portray the unfairness of the justice system.

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.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a historical play set in 1962 in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts. As you may know, you've all placed your trust in the words and actions of someone close to you. And what do they do? They betray you! It's rarely justified, and can happen to the best of us. Based on authentic records of witchcraft trials in the seventeenth-century this play explains how a small group of girls manage to create a massive panic in their town by spreading accusations of witchcraft. These rumors in turn are the causes that many citizens are hung for. This essay will show how the lies and betrayal of a few individuals eventually leads to the downfall of Salem and its society.

Throughout the endurance of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, vengeance plays a prominent role in the actions and fates of various characters. In many ways, vengeance fuels the need for retaliation. Disputes among neighbors has bred hatred and then witch trials brought out the vindictiveness of Salem's population. This leads to the deaths of many citizens in Salem by false accusations to the court. Citizens of Salem were utilizing the court system as a means of "extermination" for people who had interests or beliefs, that were contradictory to their own. As Miller states himself, "This predilection of minding other people's business was time-honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many suspicions which were to feed the

The Crucible highlights how a community can get swept up in hysteria and the tendency of humankind to embrace insanity when faced with fear. In the play, the people of Salem become susceptible to this insanity because they are all deeply afraid of