In the play, The Crucible, the author tries to argue that cruelty is never justified by false accusations. Arthur Miller expresses the strict and devoted ideas of human cruelty is accepted under the righteousness in religion by the using the fallacies of the bandwagon appeal, ad hominem and hasty generalization.
Miller presents the idea of Cruelty vs. Righteousness by using the bandwagon appeal. He shows this idea of a fixed belief system in their religion because blaming witchcraft is the appropriate thing to do in following God’s rule. The town’s people are to obey God and there is no tolerance of disobedience. Abigail Williams has the power to accuse innocent people but only because the town’s people join in. They want to be freed from any associating with the Devil. This results to the cruel punishment with no factual evidence. Abigail and the other girls that danced in the forest are creating lies and rumors about other individuals for personal gain. Citizens would have the possibility in not …show more content…
Hale questions Proctors about the amount of times he attends church as evidence towards the reason of him and his wife, Elizabeth being involved with witchcraft. Hale brings up this argument to prove that Proctor is a false gospel Christian. If a group has a certain way of doing things that all members do it is expected and required to have that every single individual do the same. In the courtroom in Act 4 Abigail is attacked by John Proctor by calling her a whore. Even though this backfired on Proctors side because he has committed adultery. He wants to expose her to show the judge that she has a selfish reason to go through the trouble in getting rid of Elizabeth. Yet Abigails desire for vengeance caused death and suffering. The fact that there is no evidence for these accusations but a bunch of girls who were actually linked with Satan defeats the purpose of having faith in an individual's
Miller presents the idea of Cruelty vs. Righteousness by using the bandwagon appeal. He shows this idea of a fixed belief system in their religion because blaming witchcraft is the appropriate thing to do in following God’s rule. The town’s people are to obey God and there is no tolerance of disobedience. Abigail Williams has the power to accuse innocent people but only because the town’s people join in. They want to be freed from any associating with the Devil. This results to the cruel punishment with no factual evidence. Abigail and the other girls that danced in the forest are creating lies and rumors about other individuals for personal gain. Citizens would have the possibility in not …show more content…
Hale questions Proctors about the amount of times he attends church as evidence towards the reason of him and his wife, Elizabeth being involved with witchcraft. Hale brings up this argument to prove that Proctor is a false gospel Christian. If a group has a certain way of doing things that all members do it is expected and required to have that every single individual do the same. In the courtroom in Act 4 Abigail is attacked by John Proctor by calling her a whore. Even though this backfired on Proctors side because he has committed adultery. He wants to expose her to show the judge that she has a selfish reason to go through the trouble in getting rid of Elizabeth. Yet Abigails desire for vengeance caused death and suffering. The fact that there is no evidence for these accusations but a bunch of girls who were actually linked with Satan defeats the purpose of having faith in an individual's