The Crucible: A Play About A Twisted Lie
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play regarding the Salem witch trial, a grim period of time in the United States’ history. The play talks about a group of young girls that create a lie that affects an entire community of people and leads to what we know as the Salem witch trials. Throughout the story Abigail manipulates the girls into not telling the truth while Reverend Hale tries to control the situation. Throughout the story as people begin to be accused and the situation worsens the characters are brought to show their real selves. Abigail and Reverend Hale grow and devolve in moral stature as a result of new information and selfish acts.
Reverend Hale undergoes a growth in moral stature as he …show more content…
At the beginning of the story when Abigail is threatening the girls she exclaims; “Let either you breathe a word, or the edge of a word,about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (Miller 19). Abigail threatens the girls at the beginning of the story just to cover up her own actions of dancing in the forest a nude. Abigail’s actions show that she is egocentric because she never takes into consideration the effects or lives of the other girls.When Abigail is accused in court she states;“In an open threat:Let you beware, Mr. Danforth. Think you to be so mighty that the power of hell may not turn your wits?Beware of it! There is ...looks above”(Miller 100). Abigail begins to fear for her image in the town and even intents to accuse the governor. As suspicion begins to arise against Abigail she begins to be more aggressive and which shows that she has become even more malevolent than she was at the beginning. Overall, Abigail Williams commits selfish acts to protect her image that are worse than the one before proving that she is a devolving
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play regarding the Salem witch trial, a grim period of time in the United States’ history. The play talks about a group of young girls that create a lie that affects an entire community of people and leads to what we know as the Salem witch trials. Throughout the story Abigail manipulates the girls into not telling the truth while Reverend Hale tries to control the situation. Throughout the story as people begin to be accused and the situation worsens the characters are brought to show their real selves. Abigail and Reverend Hale grow and devolve in moral stature as a result of new information and selfish acts.
Reverend Hale undergoes a growth in moral stature as he …show more content…
At the beginning of the story when Abigail is threatening the girls she exclaims; “Let either you breathe a word, or the edge of a word,about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (Miller 19). Abigail threatens the girls at the beginning of the story just to cover up her own actions of dancing in the forest a nude. Abigail’s actions show that she is egocentric because she never takes into consideration the effects or lives of the other girls.When Abigail is accused in court she states;“In an open threat:Let you beware, Mr. Danforth. Think you to be so mighty that the power of hell may not turn your wits?Beware of it! There is ...looks above”(Miller 100). Abigail begins to fear for her image in the town and even intents to accuse the governor. As suspicion begins to arise against Abigail she begins to be more aggressive and which shows that she has become even more malevolent than she was at the beginning. Overall, Abigail Williams commits selfish acts to protect her image that are worse than the one before proving that she is a devolving