Lying can easily be many people’s defense mechanisms. Kids deceive to save themselves from trouble often, but so do adults. If telling untruths can be considered a theme in literature, then that is the primary one in The Crucible. Every aspect of the trials in this story were a lie, and all to save one young girl from trouble. Those in the Crucible went so far in their acts of murder that they started to believe the fabrications Abigail’s and their own falsehoods. Believing lies is easy if they are told by an adept enough person. Believing your own fibs, however, is more difficult, but it’s common among narcissists, like Abigail, and these narcissists also go so far in their lies that they need to convince everyone that they are right.
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It takes a large amount of pathological lying and even some psychological problems. Compulsive liars may be embarrassed with themselves and their lies and tell frequent fibs to cover up what they dislike about their lives. These recurring fabrications combined with even the slightest instability of one’s mind causes the belief in their own lies. “ . . . We can trick ourselves into believing something that's not true is. That's because motivation for lying is usually tied up in self-esteem and self-preservation” (Edmonds, 2010, para. 4). Many can agree that narcissists and pathological liars are frequently caught up in these two things. As mentioned earlier, Abigail is both of these and she seems by the end of the play to believe some of her own fabrications. Sparknotes “Analysis of Major Characters” for The Crucible helps readers understand that Abigail’s primary reasons for her many lies were jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor and lust for John Proctor (Miller, 2015), but, as the play progressed, she gets so caught up in her lies that it is easy to determine which she believed. Arthur Miller’s play makes it evident that Abigail was the reason for nineteenth deaths, and this would have been more if not for her fleeing of Salem. Not once through the entire story does she show remorse, giving the audience the inclination that she believed to have done no wrong. It would have been simple for a young woman who had experienced so much trauma in her life and who obviously had mental instabilities to get caught up in playing God and committing so many “witches” to the
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It takes a large amount of pathological lying and even some psychological problems. Compulsive liars may be embarrassed with themselves and their lies and tell frequent fibs to cover up what they dislike about their lives. These recurring fabrications combined with even the slightest instability of one’s mind causes the belief in their own lies. “ . . . We can trick ourselves into believing something that's not true is. That's because motivation for lying is usually tied up in self-esteem and self-preservation” (Edmonds, 2010, para. 4). Many can agree that narcissists and pathological liars are frequently caught up in these two things. As mentioned earlier, Abigail is both of these and she seems by the end of the play to believe some of her own fabrications. Sparknotes “Analysis of Major Characters” for The Crucible helps readers understand that Abigail’s primary reasons for her many lies were jealousy of Elizabeth Proctor and lust for John Proctor (Miller, 2015), but, as the play progressed, she gets so caught up in her lies that it is easy to determine which she believed. Arthur Miller’s play makes it evident that Abigail was the reason for nineteenth deaths, and this would have been more if not for her fleeing of Salem. Not once through the entire story does she show remorse, giving the audience the inclination that she believed to have done no wrong. It would have been simple for a young woman who had experienced so much trauma in her life and who obviously had mental instabilities to get caught up in playing God and committing so many “witches” to the