We, the people tend to exploit one another continually, and sometimes even subconsciously. Manipulation: The act of controlling or playing upon insidious means, especially to ones own advantage. Manipulation is thrown and used excessively throughout the play. In the play The Crucible, targets specifically the audience to look within deeper than the eye into the manipulation of people’s opinions resulting from one individual’s accusation. This play reveals how the manipulation is subconsciously used by groups of individuals, influencing the community to dispose their beliefs, resulting in killing innocent human beings.
From what we understand, Abigail is one of whom who causes lots of deception within the characters she encounters. She weeps as she “look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light …show more content…
He desires to keep his manner and withdrawals anyone with contempt who dares to question his authority. He does this by not listening to testimony, having the innocent arrested, and not going back on his rulings when they could be unjust. In Act III, the innocent in Salem are crushed by the court; when Corey, Proctor and Francis Nurse come in front of the court with a petition of people clamming the positive views of their wives, Danforth issues warrants for the questioning of each signer, Corey accuses Thomas Putnam of using his daughters ability to cry witchcraft for personal gain. However, this comes with an anonymous witness and when Giles refuses to reveal this witnesses identity, Danforth refutes to listen to what Giles has to speak about and arrests his immediately. Danforth purposely turns his attention from what could be crucial evidence, for it would distort his
From what we understand, Abigail is one of whom who causes lots of deception within the characters she encounters. She weeps as she “look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light …show more content…
He desires to keep his manner and withdrawals anyone with contempt who dares to question his authority. He does this by not listening to testimony, having the innocent arrested, and not going back on his rulings when they could be unjust. In Act III, the innocent in Salem are crushed by the court; when Corey, Proctor and Francis Nurse come in front of the court with a petition of people clamming the positive views of their wives, Danforth issues warrants for the questioning of each signer, Corey accuses Thomas Putnam of using his daughters ability to cry witchcraft for personal gain. However, this comes with an anonymous witness and when Giles refuses to reveal this witnesses identity, Danforth refutes to listen to what Giles has to speak about and arrests his immediately. Danforth purposely turns his attention from what could be crucial evidence, for it would distort his