The Crucible is a 1953 play, is a dramatized history of the salem witch trails that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692-93. The author Arthur Miller relates what used to happen at that time in a Puritan Colony on the United States. Lust, envy, hate, misfortune, pain, hate and love are some of the feelings that will be found in The Crucible. There is moments when a man only wants peace and in this case is John Proctor. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” -John Proctor.
The hysteria is an exaggerated or uncontrollable …show more content…
But in this case the only girl who showed symptoms of Hysteria was Abigail she start getting those weird thoughts at the end of Act I Abigail was talking to Mr Hale and she said “I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book.”(Miller, 48) She supposedly “danced with The Devil”(Miller, 48) or she “saw him” but we don’t really know that such thing exists there is no proof or something to backup that theory. So we can conclude that Abigail was suffering from Hysteria or maybe another mental illness who can really know, the point is that her influence on the “afflicted girls” was tremendous just for being Mr Parris daughter. In the Act III John is on the courtroom with Mary Warren, Parris, Abigail and the rest of the girls, they are arguing to get Elizabeth out of jail, Mary tries to proof that she “accidentally” left the needle on the poppet but thing certainly didn’t work Abigail soon start pretending; “Oh, Mary, this is a black art to change your shape. No, I cannot, I cannot stop my mouth; it’s God’s work I do.”(Miller,
The hysteria is an exaggerated or uncontrollable …show more content…
But in this case the only girl who showed symptoms of Hysteria was Abigail she start getting those weird thoughts at the end of Act I Abigail was talking to Mr Hale and she said “I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book.”(Miller, 48) She supposedly “danced with The Devil”(Miller, 48) or she “saw him” but we don’t really know that such thing exists there is no proof or something to backup that theory. So we can conclude that Abigail was suffering from Hysteria or maybe another mental illness who can really know, the point is that her influence on the “afflicted girls” was tremendous just for being Mr Parris daughter. In the Act III John is on the courtroom with Mary Warren, Parris, Abigail and the rest of the girls, they are arguing to get Elizabeth out of jail, Mary tries to proof that she “accidentally” left the needle on the poppet but thing certainly didn’t work Abigail soon start pretending; “Oh, Mary, this is a black art to change your shape. No, I cannot, I cannot stop my mouth; it’s God’s work I do.”(Miller,