Examples Of Guilt In The Crucible

In The Crucible there were many key factors of guilt. Guilt is an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes that they have violated a standard and lack significant responsibility for that violation. Giles Corey, and John Proctor are the main characters of guilt in the story. Throughout the story there are many mistakes the characters made that basically put them in a trap, and there personal guilt comes back later to haunt them. There are many other factors, and evidence of guilt that has the power to kill innocent men, women,and children.
Guilt a word that drives the plot of The Crucible ended a good man’s live. Giles
Corey, an elder man, refused to tell the court information that could get a man killed.
Giles didn’t want to get anymore innocent people put to …show more content…
After he got his wife in trouble and many other innocent people he would not say anymore to the court system. He realized what he did his stubbornness, and guilt is what killed this man because he would not talk.
John proctor a good man with a pregnant wife was accused of many things that put him in deep trouble. Before his execution he was asked and begged by his wife and other important figures in the town to plead guilty so he would not die. After thinking about it he decided that he was not a liar he was a christian man and he was not going

to tell a lie. He died because of his own personal guilt and not wanting to tell a lie to save his life.
The role of guilt in The Crucible is to give the story a better more dramatic plot.
Guilt adds many key parts in the story like how Giles, and John gave up their lives. We can learn that the way it was back then is a lot different than it is today. We can learn that sometimes it may be the right time to lie if we were in a situation like someone in the story.
In the Crucible there is guilt all through the story and it serves many purposes to make the story better and to show more feelings. John and Giles really didn’t need