Arthur Miller's Treatment Of Women In The Crucible

In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible Miller depicts the lives of females in Puritan society through the characters Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor. These women were displayed in different social statures under the strict christian rule in Puritan society. In Puritan society, religion dictates how women are treated. Females are considered less than a man. If a woman defies a man, she is whipped and if she does not obey puritan rules, she is shunned. Miller displays the message of women being the weaker sex throughout the entire play.
Picture yourself in Salem Massachusetts, in the year 1692 during the salem witch trials. You are a young puritan girl and want to find the love of your life. You dont have any power and you hear that your house maide, Tituba, can cast a spell that will make your crush fall in of with you. So, you and your friends meet in the middle of the forest and begin the ritual. You begin dancing, and then you see a man kneeling behind a bush. You realize it’s …show more content…
Dancing in a forest around a fire, chanting in tongues, is not a good idea in the late 1600’s..especially if you’re a girl. The forest is the place where the devil roams and you just got caught dancing provocatively in it. Women and children are being persecuted and hanged left and right for practicing witchcraft. Think about it, if you were one of those young girls dancing and you got caught, what would you do? Confessing probably wouldn’t do you any good,so you blame it on somebody else. Maybe your neighbor or someone you didn’t like? Before you know it, every girl in town is saying that she’s possessed by the devil. This is what it was like during the actual Salem Witch Trials, people couldn’t scientifically explain things or take responsibility for their actions so they blamed it on someone else. The term for this is called hysteria, and by the end of the 1600’s Salem was consumed in