Themes Of The Crucible

The final subject or idea that The Crucible was about was truth. If the truth was told any/ everything that happened in the book or novel would have never happened. Truth took a big part of the book because without truth everyone could have just been telling lies. An example of truth in the book is when elizabeth is true and not lying about her not being a witch or being a women of the devil. Even though she is telling the truth the other children are saying otherwise and saying that what elizabeth claims is false. Not only does this part of the novel but the whole novel shows that when you lie and do not tell the truth bad things will happen. It would have been better if the kids just confessed and told the truth. In the novel, the court and the reverend as usual, believed the lying kids and not the truthful men and women. As I said, if the truth was told, innocent people would have not died and been hung.

Steve Maraboli once said, “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over you cannot move forward.” The whole town of Salem could benefit from this quote, especially Abigail Williams. In The Crucible there some rumors of witchcraft going around. Abigail is in the middle of these and she believes Elizabeth Proctor keeps bringing her name into it. Abigail had an affair with John Proctor, Elizabeth’s husband, and Abigail wants Elizabeth to die so John will stay with her. Abigail happens to be Reverend Parris’ niece. There are three things that Abigail Williams could have handled differently in The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

There were many conflicts and troubles in this play. No one was getting along and there were many arguments. This all started when Abigail and a group of girls went dancing in a forest trying to conjure up spirits. They get caught and to not get in trouble, the girls blame others and somehow get away with it. Many people are taken to jail, and many even hung. All this instead of just telling the truth. Many struggle with telling the truth because they are scared of the consequence. “Keeping everyone happy and telling the truth at the same time is an extraordinarily difficult art.” (Howell). By Abigail blaming others, it causes the judge to come in the picture and many more others. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, a young girl named Abigail, Judge Danforth, and all the townspeople were the reasons why there were so much mass hysteria in Salem.

One of the biggest things is lying. This is shown immediately through Abigail accusing people of witchcraft. This is also shown when John Proctor lies to his wife about Abigail. Even anyone who is saying that they see the devil is lying. Another time this is shown is when Elizabeth lies about John not committing adultery with Abigail. Respect and reputation is another major theme. This town full of religion shows much social standing. John’s name meant a lot to him and that is why he ended up tearing apart his confession papers. Forgiveness is shown when Elizabeth forgives John for committing adultery with Abigail and admitting to her own faults. Within the crucible people are taken over by the “supernatural.” With evidence of God and evidence of Satan yet no one has seen a spirit but the girls say that they do. Many claim that the girls are lying. Religion is very important in the crucible. It has a lot to do with what is going on and why everything is happening the way it does in Salem. It is Christianity centered. Some of the rules are you go to church on Sunday, you don’t work on the Sabbath, you believe the gospel, respect the ministers words like it is gods, and so on. . Jealousy is one of the things that started the whole Salem witch trials to begin with. The main reasoning is because Abigail was jealous of Elizabeth Proctor for having John. Abigail starts accusing people of using witchcraft and or being witches, which is a total

The Crucible was based on a real event that had happened in 1692. It was the talk of witchcraft and stories that were made up which caused people to become scared of witchcraft. These stories and accusations were the beginning of the Salem Witch trials. Many innocent people died during these trials due to one girl who was only chasing affection from one man. Her name is Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams was the reason of all the innocent deaths and horrible accusations that people made. At that time there were many people that you can put the blame on. However, Abigail Williams would be the root of all problems. She was the most responsible. Towards the end of the book, Abigail realizes that everything was going out of control and could not keep everything in check anymore and decides to run away. Abigail had the power to stop everything at certain points in the story. If Abigail had gotten over her fantasy, or rather her obsession, of being with John Proctor maybe things would’ve happened differently.

When I think of The Crucible one of the first things that comes to mind is the amount of Hysteria prevalent throughout the entire play. Defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary as “behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess” hysteria was a very common problem throughout The Crucible. The main source of the hysteria found in The Crucible has its roots in the accusations of witchcraft. Rather than listen to reason many of the character in the play became hysterical at the thought of witchcraft and began to condemn many innocent women. If the characters had sat down and thought about who they were accusing and why rather than jumping on the bandwagon most of the conflict could have been avoided. There were several examples of hysteria throughout The Crucible.

The events that took place in “The Crucible” could definitely happen in today’s times. The Crucible is not unlike what happens when teenage girls lie then get caught up in their lies and make it worse. Although the court system used at the time of The Crucible was quite different from today’s court, people could still lose everything, including their lives, if someone were to make up his mind to lie about them. It is a travesty when adults who have worked all their lives lose everything when another person makes up his mind to lie.

Honesty is one of the biggest parts of The Crucible, this values gets broken by Abby over and over. She continues to lie and accuse people of using witch craft even though she knows that none of them are witches. Hale says, “Abigail were stabbed tonight; a needle were found stuck into her belly.” Elizabeth says, “And she charges me?” Hale says, “Aye.” (Miller 1283). Another issue in the crucible with honesty is when they are forced to confess about being a witch or die. When they, are forced to confess they are lying to save their lives and this is not being honest.

Let's start off by naming some of the important situations that has taken place in The Crucible. First, a few girls were caught dancing in the woods doing witchcraft. Along with that, many trials, court hearing, and deaths were caused. There was a situation of affairs, deaths consisting of kids, as well as plenty of lying and accusing to go around. There were many wrongful people as well as innocent people getting killed for the wrong reasons.

In “The Crucible” Abigail Williams was the main antagonist, first perceived by the town as a trustworthy person, she later became known for the false accusations she made, and the deaths she caused. While Abigail may have initiated and created the lies she isn’t the only one at fault for what happened to her fellow townspeople. Everyone chose to believe the repetitive cries of witchcraft made by a 17 year old girl and her friends. When John Proctor came forward to put these lies to rest, he was accused of trying to create an “attack upon the court.” We need to learn from the mistakes made in The Crucible and listen to everyone, as we all deserve to be heard.

The soul of a victim tends to prove his innocence. Abigail pretends to be the victim; however, Abigail is the villain who does everything, the one who lies, the infamy to the extra people. Sometimes can seem to be the victim and the villain at the same time.

In the story The Crucible, there were long lived, lies, and life changing events that ended up with the deaths of people within the community. In the story, witchcraft was a huge deal to all the people of Salem. A major point to this play is how in the end John Proctor tore up the one and only document that could have saved his life. By doing what he chose to do, he recovered his goodness, proving to be true to his character with how he changed throughout the whole play for the best for his own self and yet for everyone else around him.

Society during this event was focused on the outrageous accusations thrown into an everyday Puritan society. The Crucible depicts a town full of religious folks who, when given the opportunity, lied for their own benefit. The Puritans were very serious about their beliefs and had a strict code that every person was supposed to follow. Lying was not deemed acceptable in such a strict environment. Yet, the character Abigail lies and has women killed so she and her uncle, Rev. Parris, can live a better life. The Putnam family and a few other people in the play also lie. All of these people lied for their own benefit and no one else’s. Even though the Puritan society was hundred of years after Olaudah's life and not focused on expansion, the literature still reflects human greed. The world changes and the true heart of the people remain the

The Crucible stood out to me from the rest of the plays. I was able to relate to it on a greater scale than the others, and the story behind the Crucible interested me very much. Also I notice a theme of secret sin. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this play as well as watching the movie. In research, I have read numerous facts on the Salem witch trials and have discovered that the witch trials are a very wide known topic which possesses many different opinions on the subject. The mass hysteria over witches started these trials. Since held in 1692, television programs today consist of witch characters in their series including some bad and some good. Clearly, the thought of witches has made its way to our world now-a-days. An obvious theme in this play is lies and deceit. Most of the characters in The Crucible are lying – if not to other people, then to themselves. Abigail lies about her ability to see spirits, as do the other girls; Proctor is deceitful first for cheating on his wife and then for hiding

Jason Garcia Mrs. McGill English III 3 November 2017 Crucible Final Essay Since The Crucible was written during the time of McCarthyism, the whole play is pretty much a metaphor for it. In The Crucible, people claim that there are witches and that they are possessed by the Devil. In McCarthyism, random people were accused of being communists. If you didn't like someone all you had to do was lie and say they were communists. The same was true in the Crucible. One guy in the play, accuses someone of being a witch because he wanted his land. Another accuses even the most noble of citizens of being a witch. the play was designed to make fun of McCarthyism and to show just how ridiculous it really was. By the end of the play the people begin to realize it has gone too far. This is the same as in McCarthyism, his "witch hunt" ended because people lost faith in what he was doing. In The Crucible insubstantial evidence be presented during each event in the story. The story is fairly related to McCarthyism and how he falsely accused people of being communist. The start of mass hysteria is when Abigail and her friends get caught dancing in the forest with Tituba. “Abigail: Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all.”(Miller I). Abigail tries to lie and make a story to cover up the sin she has done. Also to make herself look good. This is where the hysteria comes in. One thing that Abigail started the hysteria for was John