Fear In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

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.

Fear can motivate you to do something or stop you. One way is when doing something you know someone will do it. Why do people treat people different based off your tragedy Based off the movie Cool Hand Luke’s mom died, his partners gave him respect by leaving the room and the one of boss workers locked Luke in the box to grieve. People just don’t know how to react But we shouldn’t let fear stop us. Like going back to Antigone when Ismene burried her family relative she really didnt know what to do and she just did what was suppose to be done, what her mind told her to.

TV shows and Movies with a focus on cliques, either in high school or in the work force, are popular in our society today. For instance the movie Mean Girls is about a teenage girl moving to a new school and being recruited into a high school clique. In this clique, the members exhibit the behaviors of people experiencing the psychological phenomenon, Groupthink. Groupthink is the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility. There are eight symptoms of Groupthink- Invulnerability, Rationale, Morality, Stereotypes, Pressure, Self-Censorship, Unanimity, and Mindguards. Groupthink has also taken place in our history a a country. The play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller is about a the real-life Salem Witch Trials that happened in 1692 - 1693, in Salem, Massachusetts. Some symptoms of Groupthink found in the Crucible are Rationale, Pressure, and Self-Censorship.

As the various characters in The Crucible by Arthur Miller interact, the dominant theme of the consequences of women’s nonconformity begins to slide out from behind the curtains of the play. Such a theme reveals the gripping fear that inundated the Puritans during the seventeenth century. This fear led to the famous witch-hunts that primarily terrorized women who deviated from the Puritan vision of absolute obedience and orthodoxy. Arthur Miller presents his interpretation of the suffering by subtly introducing women who strayed from convention and paid the consequences. Throughout The Crucible, Arthur Miller delineates the historically austere Puritans’ perception and punition of women who differ from expectations, all while unraveling, through the characterization of Tituba, the harsh truth of how women were vided as lesser than men and feared if deviating.

The Crucible was a play written by Arthur Miller during the era of McCarthyism. This time period and person experiences helped influence the outcomes and aspects of the play written to mimic the Salem Witch Trials. Many characters were accused and even tried for witchcraft, while the audience is clear of whom the guilty party is the entire play. Elizabeth Proctor, the wife to John Proctor the wrongly one wrongly accused and executed, had many conflicts in this play as many others did. Elizabeth Proctor was met with conflicts of wrong accusations, adultery, death threats, and eventually, losing her husband. Elizabeth Proctor endured an incredible amount of pain and conflict throughout the play, The Crucible. She was met with many conflicts that involved many the people she loved, or once trusted. Elizabeth Proctor ended one of the only characters that would feel the pain of the trials forever.

The play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, withholds many conflicts that arise resulting in many themes as well. Such as weight, Reputation, and Good vs. Evil. These themes form from the Salem witch trials. Repeatedly people become accused of witchcraft, throughout the play this continues to drag out due to the people of Salem’s accusations and deceit for one another. The play continues to move to a tense and moving climax resulting in the death of many prominent people of Salem.

In the late 1980’s, Ray Buckley along with his mother, sister, and teachers of the McMartin preschool faced 321 charges of child abuse additionally there were allegations of the group performing satanic rituals and traveling in secret underground tunnels. Many children from the preschool were accusing several people of performing bizarre acts much like the witch hunts that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, such hysteria brought fear amongst many. The Crucible a play composed by American author, Arthur Miller wrote this play about the town Salem that fell into mass hysteria after a group of girls Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, Ruth Putnam, Tituba and Mary Warren accused townspeople of witchcraft. Many may argue that the root and cause of the witch hunts were caused by the girls in the forest looking for revenge or trying to benefit from the accusations however the cause was fear amongst the characters this is demonstrated by Elizabeth Proctor, Mary Warren, and Abigail Williams.

In the novel East of Eden many examples show just how powerful fear can be if used for selfish gain or as a defence mechanism even though it may backfire from time to time. Fear being one of the biggest overtones (if not the biggest) allows us to see how huge an influence fear can be in a person's life and on other people. As with Cathy the main antagonist who lives to hold the fear of her blackmailing someone and men’s sexual desires over their heads to attain whatever her twisted desires are no matter what method she has to use. Cathy the embodiment of evil in the novel, who lives by fear is found consistently using it to her advantage to apprehend whatever her dark corrupted heart desires from the unsuspecting people around her.

In the actual history of the Salem witch trials over 150 people were accused of bewitchment. Though most were hung they were all innocent. The Crucible was not only allegory to Arthur Miller's anti-communist ideals but a great text about some of the actual accounts in history during the actual Salem witch trials. In the play Arthur Miller used fear, hysteria, and revenge as important elements to keep the story going also to keep the readers wanting to read more and find out what will happen next

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

Even though some people may think having fear is either helpful or not and do not agree that there can be a middle ground, in reality fear can sometimes be a harmful emotion and sometimes be a helpful emotion. In The Crucible, fear was not a harmful emotion, but it costed something more valuable to some than life. Also, fear is what influenced Jeanne from Farewell to Manzanar write "yes yes" on the form that would preserve his family's place in America. But, in The Red Badge of Courage, fear is the emotion that held back Henry from growing up and maturing as a young man. Overall, fear is an unpredictable emotion that sways a decision depending on the situation.

Hysteria is displayed all over the world and is a key component in either making or breaking relationships. It refers to the loss of control over a person’s outburst of emotion or fear. In a more deeper context, mass hysteria can be defined as exaggerated or uncontrollable excitement or anxiety among a group of people. Basically hysteria can make people believe that their neighbors, those who they’ve always considered to be good people, are committing inane and absurd crimes. All of this takes the self interest in one person to start an irreversible chain of decay. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, this is the dilemma that Salem faces. The people of the town act on their grudges and start to turn against one another making false claims

Fear may seem like a negative, but what kind of a story would it be without it? Throughout Frankenstein, peers presentations, and The Horse and His boy it has become evident to me that fear is relevant in every story. It can result in so many emotions including excitement, accomplishment, and motivation at times, but just plain failure at others. Fear motivates, breaks down, and teaches characters who they really are in times of panic. It also enthralls readers to stay tuned into the book and interested in what is going on.

Fear is more than just something people are afraid of. Fear is a driving force that leads people to become who they are, a force so strong it could change history. For American society, that is just what fear is--a foundation upon which culture was built. Even in modern America, fear can be seen everywhere, and the history of that fear can be seen within literature. Whether it is modern media or novels from the 1800s, fear can be expressed in the form of a story.

Fear is a constant part of everyday life, whether it be fear of spiders, of failure, or even fear of loneliness. Fear plays a part in everything we do. This is shown in many ways. For children, when they learn good and bad things, they learn from getting in trouble. They learn that if something is wrong they will get yelled at.