The Consequences Of Fear In Arthur Miller's The Crucible

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throughout history fear has been an effective form of control. From world war 2 Germany and south and the South Pacific to McCarthyism and the United States in the 1950s, fear has been the driving force behind mass hysteria. Arthur Miller 's play The Crucible tells the story of many young women and one being advocate a big girl and a famous guy named John Proctor from the village so this so called girl Abigail Williams was attracted to the John Proctor man which had two children and one lovely wife. space so all the young woman that follows Abigail Williams worth all the young girls for following Abigail Williams and we 're most likely curious of what they should do so they decided to go with one of her friends and decide on practicing witchcraft …show more content…
John Proctor his pass really came up to him and smack them in the face. and now he is paying the consequences for what he has done and he is trying to just basically Fifth Sun but no really way of hits himself of what he has done but someone like that s in a sentence like his wife and what you trying to fix till I get out of jail but aside from him saving himself he 's not really doing that he 's just saying what he has done and that will like come up to resolve what the wife will face or possibly not face anything because he has not done anything.PROCTOR: Oh, Francis, I wish you had some evil in you that you might know me. (To Danforth:) A man will not cast away his good name. You surely know that.this quote it just shows how John Proctor was not lying and shows more more truthfulness in them more evidence more solid specs that should help them slightly a little but not really. His actions from the past came up to him and really showed what he had done its true no would give her name just for just like that just for no reason no one in could get them killed but he knew he messed up and he is trying to not have his wife killed just for his fault and yeah basically everything that John Proctor is going to have to deal with now will space on his actions and beer now it 's just killing him and the only possible way to save them now show to make up lies but he is surely not doing that. This …show more content…
fear was now working on the and it did not feel pleasant, but I still have to deal with it. right after putting my phone away from checking the time and proceeded also to ride my bike at a 50-foot distance I see a cop car and that 's when my stomach sank. at this point I was like should I fight or flight RC I was going to fight because that 's a cop car. luckily since it was a dark alley he didn 't really get a full picture of me all the model saw was a guy in the bike writing that but that 's about it. that 's what I was thinking at the time so I didn 't really think of it like if something really big and simply decided to pull into the alley to the right and you started telling me faster and faster. 5 seconds pass and all of sudden you start hearing siren not hospital sirens cop siren, that 's how you know I messed up and now I have to deal with the consequences and fear is now in complete control. at this point I just decided to you know what try to get home as quickly as I can without getting caught. I wasn 't that far from my house, but it was still somewhat away, but luckily there were a lot of streets and I could like just pulling through every single little sweet and kind of ditch the cops. I decided to do that and they worked out fine. before going to sleep, I just started thinking of what I was really doing but I knew fear inspired my actions severely.a character that I can relate to

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