Theme Of Weakness In The Crucible

As philosopher Sissela Bok once said, "Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived." This insight on the nature of humans shows astounding similarities to how Abigail Williams acted throughout The Crucible. Written by Arthur Miller in 1953, Miller used his play to show similarities between the Salem Witch Trials and Joseph McCarthy's ideal of "McCarthyism", and prove that McCarthy was framing him. Miller wrote this as a play in order for the reader to develop a full understanding of his hidden message. Taking place in Salem, Massachusetts in the year of 1692, the Salem Witch Trials helped create parallels to what was occurring in 1953. In The Crucible, Abigail Williams is the most despicable character in the play because of the lies which led to the deaths of many townspeople.

The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the year of 1692 and during this time, the Salem witch-hunts began. The Salem witch-hunt was one of the oddest and most fearsome epochs in human history. The numerous amounts of people that were prosecuted were all innocent and their lives were taken away due to the fallacious accusations of the Puritan’s belief in superstition and their paranoia that witches had walked among them. One accuser that is the reason this all started was Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams is to blame because she possesses the evil qualities of being remorselessness, jealous, and also having the quality of vengefulness. These qualities that Abigail have are direct contributions to the murder of many people who were unjustly hanged to death.

There has been a statement about The Crucible being “essentially about courage, weakness and truth.” I agree that this statement is true due to the events and characters in The Crucible. The reason others believe The Crucible is described as courage, weakness and truth is also because of the characters and events that went on. Some characters have showed their weakness in certain situations when they are afraid to face the truth. The courage in the play is when the characters still fighting for either themselves or others, even when they think they have a small chance of them succeed to win their fight. Now, the truth in the story has to do with most of the characters saying the truth about the devil and the witchcraft that is going on in their town because the town and everyone who lives in it are big god believers and to them being connected to the devil or witchcraft is dangerous and a sin to them.

"Some are not who they say they are, and some are not who they seem to be." The author Ellen Raskin wrote. The reader can easily see this in Arthur Miller drama The Crucible, which is set in Salem Massachusetts in 1692 and 1693 during the Puritan era. In the play The Crucible was about a village who thinks they are under siege by witches. During the first few acts the people of Salem are beginning to be suspicious of how the young girls are acting. Later on in drama the girl begin accusing people in the village of with craft. So then the accused were put on trial. if they confessed to being a witch they lived but, if they did not the accused were sentenced to death. Miller shows us with the character Abigail Williams, as she is nothing like the perfect Puritan woman she was supposed to be.

Life in the 1600’s was arduous for members of Puritan society. Strict social rules, including defined gender-specific roles, mandatory attendance at church, no self-indulging activities, and limited personal freedoms, forced people to repress their feelings and opinions to maintain a good reputation. God was involved in every aspect of life, and punishment fell upon those who were seen as not doing God’s work and deviated from the norm. The Crucible, a play set during the events of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts during this time, focuses on the mass hysteria which plagued the people and their reactions. A group of girls went dancing in the woods, and were caught by Reverend Parris. To avoid getting in trouble, the girls, led by Abigail Williams, claimed being the victims of witchcraft. John Proctor, who previously had an affair with Abby while she worked for his family, refused to believe the accusations of witchcraft. After Abby accuses his wife, Elizabeth, John does his best to prove her innocence, yet ultimately ends up being hanged himself. The events are tragic, and many people died as a result. Abigail’s “in the moment” survival is evident in her disregard for virtue in favor of reputation throughout The Crucible, whereas John Proctor ultimately decides integrity is more important than survival through his admission of guilt.

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 Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. During this time, a girl named Abigail Williams forms people’s belief in witchcraft when she claims that her slave, Tituba, bewitched her. When Tituba was given the choice of “confessing to her sin”, which means to lie about being a witch, or be whipped and executed, she chose to protect herself with dishonesty. After this event, many people began to accuse one another of witchcraft and were forced into Tituba’s situation: lie in a “confession” of their sins or be executed. With numerous accusations running around town, the people in fear of being accused would lie about their involvement with witchcraft as well as their reputation, since people with

“He come at me by night and every day to sign, to sign, to-” “My name, he want my name. ‘I’ll murder you,’ he says, ‘if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court” “He wake me every night, his eyes were like coals and his fingers claw my neck, and I sign, I sign…” (110). In Act III when Mary went against Abigail and sided with John to tell the court the truth, Abigail and the girls started to accuse Mary of witchcraft. When they did this Mary displayed the theme temptation because instead of telling the truth she started obeying Abigail again and turned against John by accusing him of

The devastating Salem witch trials occurred between February 1692 and May 1693. By the end of the trials many people were accused, nineteen were executed and several more died in prison. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, captures the hysteria that developed during the Salem witch trials. Crucible character, Abigail Williams, represents the repressed desires that many of the Puritans possess. Abigail’s readiness to abandon Puritan social restrictions sets her apart from the other characters, and eventually leads to her downfall. Abigail Williams uses manipulation and cruelty to create an atmosphere of terror and intimidation in her town. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Abigail Williams leads the hysteria in Salem by taking extreme measures to succeed in attaining John Proctor's love.

People often tell lies to evade punishment for their wrong doings, however sometimes these lies become out of control and a person must test their weaknesses and courage. This is exactly the delmia the characters in The Crucible must find a solution to. The play takes place in the Puritan village of Salem, Massachusetts during the 1692-1693 Salem Witch Trials. The mayhem of the trials begins when Reverend Parris catches Abigail Williams and several other girls dancing in the woods with his Barbados slave, Tituba, singing. Furthermore, Dancing is considered a sin by the Puritans.

Salem, Massachusetts found itself in deep despair when many people were slaughtered for being guilty of witchcraft. The tale, The Crucible, depicts the intense nature of the Salem witch trials. Due to misjudgment and deranged accusations, people’s lives were constantly at risk. In the story, there were multiple people in the village responsible for the witch trials, but there is one who is accountable, Abigail Williams. She displays sinful actions throughout the play, making her an enemy in the town.

The book, The Crucible, is the history behind the famous Salem Witch Trials. Arthur Miller, the author, tells the mischievous story that revolves around a seventeen girl named Abigail. Subjected to the lechery of John Proctor, another crucial character, she is initially viewed as a love struck victim who is taken advantage of. Abigail believes that someday John is going to leave Elizabeth, his wife, to be with her. Though Proctor continues to turn down Abigail’s advances, she continues to push at him. John, in consequence of the affair, is a tormented man who is struggling to forgive himself, and earn back the affection and trust of his wife. Abigail, jealous and hurt, sees a scenario unfold when she is caught sporting in the

One of the most prominent human weaknesses that is revealed when conflict arises between the individual and the collective is fear. Arthur Miller explores human weakness caused by fear in his play The Crucible through false accusations and writes about this weakness in his article “Why I Wrote The Crucible: An Artist’s Answer to Politics.” Patrick Henry also addresses fear in individuals that arise from struggles with the collective in his speech “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775).” Ultimately, these texts all address the fear of being different, which drives people to match their beliefs with the beliefs of the collective, because those who do not conform to the norms of the collective receive differential and unequal treatment, thus suggesting that people who have different beliefs or practices from the majority tend to be silenced since it is difficult for them to overcome the collective’s discrimination against them.

A town full of corruption that was seeking for answers, found none in the beds of “bewitched” children. Many innocent people died for being falsely accused of witchcraft during these times. The people of Salem were quickly losing their trust in the people around them that they had the most trust in. They were quick to judge without thinking anything of it. The Crucible, is by Arthur Miller, and describes an incident including the Salem Witch Trials. In the play, The Crucible, there was a secret forbidden romance between John Proctor and Abigail Williams. These characters both had their ups and downs in the play and showed some of their more dominant characteristics. John and Abigail showed these characteristics: kindness/vindictiveness, truthfulness/lying, and courage/ fear.

The play, “The Crucible” is written by Arthur Miller in 1953. During this time of American history, a war had just ended and there was a deeply rooted fear of communists infiltrating American soil; Americans had begun to turn on each other out of fear that people around them were against American ideals. Arthur Miller expressed his concern for the time by writing “The Crucible,” which is written about a witch hunt that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Arthur Miller used the themes of an earlier American event to remind people of his time that their actions were indeed following a historical pattern of fear. The play, “The Crucible” takes place in America in a time of deeply rooted religion, fear of the unknown, and early civilization. The juxtaposition of this play, it’s characters, and the time in which the play was written, teaches a very difficult, yet important, lesson about fear and it’s position in a society of people.