Trust worthy villain
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play heavily based on the hysteria of the Salem witch hunt trials that occurred in Salem Massachusetts approximately in the 1690’s. In the real life Salem witch trials a group of girls Abigail Williams being one of them began to practice magic with their slave Tituba. They suffered physical ailments and due to a lack of technology and no obvious cause for the girls to be sick the doctor diagnosed this to be the result of witch craft as many did (blame) witch craft for the inexplicable. Finger pointing begins and after Abigail and Betty Paris among other girls who had originally participated in the practice of witch craft finish accusing a number of people and cause others in the community …show more content…
Trust worthy people are usually now a days children or woman, people who look innocent in general, they would be incapable of murder or at least statistics say it would be less probable than a man or someone of another ethnicity. It would be close to impossible for them to be guilty especially if they had been the victim. The thought in the puritan village of Salem was very similar to this in how the community thought of Abigail and the others afflicted. They had been victims so they could not possibly be lying. Abigail is the niece of the minister Paris which adds to the trust the people of Salem have for her as any family of a minster couldn’t do anything wrong. The events that occur in the crucible show that when a trust worthy person in this case a young girl who is the niece of a minister says something it is taken as the undoubtable truth. Of course today everyone is questioned but most of us don’t expect the victim to be in any way guilty. The hysteria is a result of that supposedly trust worthy …show more content…
The majority in modern day often times have very negative stereotypes about the minority which makes them seem very capable of doing the horrible things they are accused of , when in fact they may not be and only have less of a voice to oppose such accusations. Part of the community of Salem’s willingness to follow along with the finger pointing was the fear of being accused and thus killed themselves and the fear of that which is inexplicable or linked with the devil in some way. Eliminating these allies of Satan would make them feel safer but it would also satisfy other motivations the characters of The Crucible had. Peoples willingness to follow along and accuse was from fear for their lives and being accepted by society like Tituba, and Abigail along with the other girls did “And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? There are them that will swear to anything before they’ll hang” (Miller 69). Denying it also makes for society rejecting you and further persecuting you as Marry warren was when she confessed. In order to fix what she had done and be accepted again she had to accuse John Procter. Fear of Abigail turning everyone against her motivated Marry to continue the lie being told. However, the motivation of continuing the hunt went a bit further than just saving one’s life and doing what was accepted or rather expected from those who
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play heavily based on the hysteria of the Salem witch hunt trials that occurred in Salem Massachusetts approximately in the 1690’s. In the real life Salem witch trials a group of girls Abigail Williams being one of them began to practice magic with their slave Tituba. They suffered physical ailments and due to a lack of technology and no obvious cause for the girls to be sick the doctor diagnosed this to be the result of witch craft as many did (blame) witch craft for the inexplicable. Finger pointing begins and after Abigail and Betty Paris among other girls who had originally participated in the practice of witch craft finish accusing a number of people and cause others in the community …show more content…
Trust worthy people are usually now a days children or woman, people who look innocent in general, they would be incapable of murder or at least statistics say it would be less probable than a man or someone of another ethnicity. It would be close to impossible for them to be guilty especially if they had been the victim. The thought in the puritan village of Salem was very similar to this in how the community thought of Abigail and the others afflicted. They had been victims so they could not possibly be lying. Abigail is the niece of the minister Paris which adds to the trust the people of Salem have for her as any family of a minster couldn’t do anything wrong. The events that occur in the crucible show that when a trust worthy person in this case a young girl who is the niece of a minister says something it is taken as the undoubtable truth. Of course today everyone is questioned but most of us don’t expect the victim to be in any way guilty. The hysteria is a result of that supposedly trust worthy …show more content…
The majority in modern day often times have very negative stereotypes about the minority which makes them seem very capable of doing the horrible things they are accused of , when in fact they may not be and only have less of a voice to oppose such accusations. Part of the community of Salem’s willingness to follow along with the finger pointing was the fear of being accused and thus killed themselves and the fear of that which is inexplicable or linked with the devil in some way. Eliminating these allies of Satan would make them feel safer but it would also satisfy other motivations the characters of The Crucible had. Peoples willingness to follow along and accuse was from fear for their lives and being accepted by society like Tituba, and Abigail along with the other girls did “And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? There are them that will swear to anything before they’ll hang” (Miller 69). Denying it also makes for society rejecting you and further persecuting you as Marry warren was when she confessed. In order to fix what she had done and be accepted again she had to accuse John Procter. Fear of Abigail turning everyone against her motivated Marry to continue the lie being told. However, the motivation of continuing the hunt went a bit further than just saving one’s life and doing what was accepted or rather expected from those who