Hundreds of years ago, there was a reverend named Samuel Parris. He had one daughter named Betty, and a niece named Abigail. Since Salem was a theocracy at the time, Rev. Parris was the head of the church and town. But due to his actions and lack of authority, many people were wrongly executed during the Salem Witch Trial in 1692. In 1953, a man named Arthur Miller decided to write a play based on this story. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller illustrates themes such as: guilt, hypocrisy, and revenge.
             Guilt, a word that means: a feeling of remorse for a real or imagined wrongdoing. Most, if not all, people have felt this way one time or other. For example, in The Crucible, John Proctor feels guilty because of the affair he has with Abigail Williams. He will feel this way throughout the whole story. Another example of guilt illustrated by Arthur Miller in this play is how Mary Warren feels about what she and the girls are doing. In Act I, she tells Abigail to tell the truth after getting caught dancing in the woods. As the story progresses, her guilt gets to her and makes her feel sickly. In this play, Elizabeth Proctor, John's beloved wife, also feels guilt. Elizabeth Proctor also feels this way in Act III. Her incidence with guilt is when she lies without knowing that her husband had already told the judge what happened.
             The second theme that Arthur Miller uses to describe some of the characters is hypocrisy. As Act I starts, we know find out that Parris is not what he's supposed to be, a godly man, yet he's more concerned with his money. Also when Betty, his daughter, falls ill, he puts his reputation before her health. Hypocrisy is also used to describe Abigail Williams, Parris' niece, and Marry Warren. In The Crucible, Abigail, being the niece of the minister, she supposed to be a proper, upright child. Instead she is the total opposite. During Act III, Marry Warren is of
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