The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The purpose is to educate and display to the reader the hysteria and injustice that can come from a group of people that thinks it's doing the "right" thing for society in relation to The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The play is based on the real life witch hunts that occurred in the late 1600's in Salem, Massachusetts. It shows the people's fear of what they felt was the Devil's work and shows how a small group of powerful people wrongly accused and killed many people out of this fear and ignorance. Also important to the play is how Arthur Miller depicts how one selfish, evil person like Abigail Williams can bring others down and make others follow her to commit evil acts. These evil acts affect even the most honest people in the town like John and Elizabeth Proctor, and Rebecca Nurse who cannot fight the accusations made against them by those following Abigail. Those following Abigail are considered to be holy men that are full of honesty and justice, but the play shows that even those who are thought to be respectable and right, li
Parris comes to court three months later and says that Abigail has stolen all his money and has left town and he feels guilty for the people who were accused by her and hung because of it. He values his wife's love and the concerns of his children so he wants to be a good man and to him the truth is very important in being a good man. Another part of the developing plot is that John Proctor knows Abigail and her friends are lying, but he is afraid to say any thing because eight months before he had and affair with Abigail and did not want to be seen by the town as a lecher, which means wife cheater. Parris finds his niece Abigail Williams and his daughter Betty along with his slave Tituba doing some dance in the forest. Proctor felt guilty about what he did in his past with Abigail he decides that now he will save his name with his pride and refuses to sign the confession. In the end he had what he wanted most, integrity. The play also had a lot of suspense , I kept wanting to hear the tapes to see what happened to the characters in the end, it was never boring. Characterization: I think the best character development is the one of John Proctor, a farmer that lived in the town. My older brother said the play "showed the same mentality of the German people during the Holocaust", and when I understood what he meant I say that it is a lot like the part in the movie Beauty and the Beast when the character Gaston makes every body crazy to kill the Beast just because Gaston feels he is evil. We should also realize that being an individual has bad effects sometimes and even though we might be right we have to be brave when fighting society because we will not always win. The growth of John Proctor is from some one who tries to find out who he is in the begging of the play to a person that dies for what he believes in a society that wrongly accuses him. This is all a lie though because once Abigail blamed Tituba she did not want to turn the story around and admit that she was lying in the first place because one, she was afraid of the consequences of such a strong lie, and two, because she saw it as an opportunity to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor. The court does not want to admit they were wrong though because they feel the people will rebel if they now come out and say "sorry, we made a small mistake".
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