Examples Of White Lies In The Crucible

In Act I Abigail says to Betty, "I talked to your papa and I told him everything." This line like the many others spoken by Abigail is a lie and is spoken with the intent of manipulating another character into doing something that will somehow benefit her. In his play, "The Crucible," Arthur Miller uses the character of Abigail Williams to exemplify the theme of deceit. This play is set in Salem, Massachusetts, in a time period when villagers were prone to accusing each other of witchcraft in order to save themselves from being hanged. Hence, a major theme in this play is deceit.

People lie all the time such as in the Crucible lying is a very common practice throughout the play as can be seen through the characters of John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Elizabeth Proctor. The Crucible containing many lies throughout the play, intertwining with each other some leading to the death of John Proctor. During the 1950s with McCarthyismm and Joe McCarthy rising to power falsely accusing others of being communists, during the second red scare. Lies that lead to catastrophes as seen in the Crucible; being the cause of people’s deaths and overall run amuck and get out of control.

In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible Abigail Williams, an unmarried orphan in the Massachusetts town of Salem, incessantly grows more jealous, her desire for vengeance only grows stronger, and her selfishness escalates. She repeatedly lies to save herself by denying her involvement in witchcraft. Abigail's Jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor intensifies in attempt to realize her desire for Elizabeth's husband John Proctor. In order to save herself she accuses the innocent, without any sense of ethical violation. Abigail proves to be a selfish antagonist in The Crucible that shows no sense of right and wrong.

Arthur Miller's verifiable play, The Crucible, depicts the recorded occasions of the Salem witch trials through a swarm of life-changing characters. Trepidation drives these Puritans to uncover their actual feelings while confronting their informers in the predisposition courts before coldblooded judges. While in the long run all the individuals of Salem get subject to this frenzy, two ladies emerge above the rest. Retribution and disgrace live in the heart of the young adulteress, Abigail Williams, while truth and exemplary nature dwell in the soul of Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor's dedicated wife. Although they both elevate the strain and tension of the play, Abigail William's and Elizabeth Proctor's disparities lead to turmoil because

The sins of deceit and lust have plagued the human race since the dawn of time. These feelings and wishes can make people do some of the worst things known man. In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, these two sins are applied to many characters one of which is Abigail Williams. The play revolves around the Abigail and her friends attempting to cover up their past transgressions against the Salem community while Abigail attempts to get together with John Proctor. Abigail suffers from the sins of lust and deceit most chronically which she uses to fulfill her agenda throughout the play. Due to Abigail's lust for John and her constant utility of untruths lead the people to fear for their lives leading them to hurt innocent people making Abigail the main transgressor of the Salem condition.

In the play of the crucible by Arthur Miller was about the witch trial in salem, massachute. A teenage girl named Abigail fell in love with a married guy named John Proctor. Abigail is doing everything to win John Proctor heart and be john proctor wife. Everything went wrong and she started to lie by accusing innocent people for being witches. Innocent people are getting hang up because of Abigail and her friends lies. The author's purpose of this play is to inform the audience about what happened during salem witch trials.

Many people in the world today reject the idea that there are grave consequences of lying to protect themselves until it is too late. As observed in Miller’s play, Abigail lies to protect her own reputation and others around her. Parris asks Abigail a serious question that he knew the answer to, yet he wants her to admit fault. Abigail said that “No one was naked!” (Miller I. 143-144). Sometimes, during a time of jeopardy, it is crucial to lie and protect for reputation's sake. For instance, “There is nothin’ more I swear it uncle” (Miller I. 155-156) gives an example of a last effort to try to get the pressure off of themselves. When Betty accuses Abby, she defends herself until the end to protect her own reputation. Betty says “You drank blood Abby!...Betty you never say that again!” (Miller II. 444-447). Abby knows that Betty speaks the truth and that if everyone believes her, then Abby’s reputation suffers. When people lie,

Death by rope is a scary endeavor for anyone to undergo, no matter how fearless. In The Crucible, John Proctor is me with the choice of lying to save his skin, or the option of being hanged. Lying, in a puritanical society is heavily frowned upon as a sin, while being hung means a terrible demise. This is why, when considering Proctors forgiveness of himself, the names of Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse, and his religious beliefs on lying, John made the correct decision in being hanged at the gallows.

“The Crucible” takes place in the late 1600’s in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. At this time, people believed that witchcraft existed and that commonly people practiced it. The town of Salem was a very religiously based settlement and was very strict about its rules towards witches and witchcraft. The play is based off of an actual time when multiple girls lied about practicing witchcraft, and about people using witchcraft to force the girls to use it. Throughout the play, the lie continues to escalate because the girls do not want to get in trouble and the trials and panic gets very out of hand. Three major factors that caused the Salem witch trials to escalate so far

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller demonstrated that it was Abigail’s flaws- lust, jealousy, and mendacity- that led her to be responsible the most for the tragedy of the witch-hunt in Salem. The Crucible focuses of the finding of young girls and a slave messing around in the woods, trying to conjure spirits from the dead. Rather than admit to their actions and face the consequences, the girls accuse everyone else of the crimes they were guilty of. Abigail Williams is the person who caused much of the drama in this story. She bears much responsibility for everyone meeting with Tituba in the woods. Once Parris discovers this meeting, Abigail attempts to keep her actions a secret because it would possibly reveal her affair with Proctor. Abigail lies to cover up her affair with proctor, and to stop the charges of witchcraft in order to prevent the terrible punishments that go along with the accusations.

“I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you.” The Crucible is written around the theme of sin and guilt. The girls dancing naked in the forest, the affair of John and Abigail, and John refusing to sign the agreement about the affair to be hung up on the church doors are all examples of sin and guilt.

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

Adolf Hitler once said, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed” and he was right. After all he convinced millions of Germans to hate Jewish people, he pointed his long bony finger at the Jews and said that they were the devils children and people believed him. He formed an army and started a war that killed sixty million people all based on a lie. A lie he believed in but never the less, a lie. In “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, a girl named Abigail Williams, also manifests a lie that ends up killing many innocent people.

The Crucible is a play written by Arthur MIller in 1959. This play is a dramatized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in 1962-1963. Lies and Deceit appears to be the Universal or main theme in this play. Abigail and the girls lies are the main reason why the Salem witch trials take place.

A lie is an inaccurate statement to convey a false impression. A person tells an average of at least 2 lies per day. A lie can cause happiness but can also cause multiple tragedies in many different lives. The person telling the lie is not the only one being affected, many other people can get involved and their lives will be changed forever. Arthur Miller's classic The Crucible is written upon all different types of lying, and how a single lie can cause tragedies to many people.