In the play “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, Miller shows two major topics such as fear and karma ; the author's message is that by being scared not telling the truth and blaming others for your actions can come back to haunt you at the end.
Fear and Karma begin soon as Abigail the Reverends niece is confronted by the girls seeing her in the woods but the situation starts to build up when she threatens all the girls not to say anything. As the girls discuss the truth of what really happened in the woods Betty starts to put the pieces together and figures something out. Reverend's daughter Betty accuses Abigail of drinking chickens blood when she states “You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor”(12)! If anyone finds …show more content…
Mary and Elizabeth are an example of karma because they are in the trail for their life but they make up a story that's isn't making sense. “You are somewhat mentioned but I said I never see no sign you ever sent your spirit out to hurt no one(33)”. This means that it's going to fail on them because Proctor is finding and figuring out all the little pieces of the lies but also he is falling behind because the girls are making more plans for destruction. Fear is all over the story because everyone is scared of being accused of witchcraft craft so everyone is being hidden and closed but fear is becoming an advantage to others because they use it to get what they want. As the girls start to make the problem worst and start to accuse more people no one wants to just trust anyone anymore they don't know who to speak to because they might be a spy for Abigail and can say that she is a witch. Karma is in this scene but fear is taking over because no one in the town wants to speak up and say anything because they know the consequences if you speak or try to tell the
Fear and Karma begin soon as Abigail the Reverends niece is confronted by the girls seeing her in the woods but the situation starts to build up when she threatens all the girls not to say anything. As the girls discuss the truth of what really happened in the woods Betty starts to put the pieces together and figures something out. Reverend's daughter Betty accuses Abigail of drinking chickens blood when she states “You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor”(12)! If anyone finds …show more content…
Mary and Elizabeth are an example of karma because they are in the trail for their life but they make up a story that's isn't making sense. “You are somewhat mentioned but I said I never see no sign you ever sent your spirit out to hurt no one(33)”. This means that it's going to fail on them because Proctor is finding and figuring out all the little pieces of the lies but also he is falling behind because the girls are making more plans for destruction. Fear is all over the story because everyone is scared of being accused of witchcraft craft so everyone is being hidden and closed but fear is becoming an advantage to others because they use it to get what they want. As the girls start to make the problem worst and start to accuse more people no one wants to just trust anyone anymore they don't know who to speak to because they might be a spy for Abigail and can say that she is a witch. Karma is in this scene but fear is taking over because no one in the town wants to speak up and say anything because they know the consequences if you speak or try to tell the