Injustice In The Crucible Analysis

“Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.” Injustice is a word every culture knows and deals with, but the source is greed, someone who wants more for himself. Injustice is when unfairness is displayed to someone or a group of people, and for this to occur, greed is often the culprit. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller, about accusations of witchery in Salem, Massachusetts. In The Crucible, the uproar of witchcraft in the late 1600s, paired with manipulative mindsets, causes injustice in the community for many years. With injustice eventually comes people who speak out against it. Arthur Miller uses main characters Giles, Proctor, and Abigail to convey that speaking out against injustice will hurt …show more content…
Talking to Judge Danforth then to his wife Elizabeth, “for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor… Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!” (1333). Proctor goes from at first telling himself and others that he is a hypocritical and selfish person to having confidence in himself and seeing the good in himself. He feels empowered and shares that sense of pride with his wife as he tells her not to shed a tear because he knows Danforth and the others want to and will find joy in their weakness. Danforth will not receive the emotions he wants from Elizabeth and Proctor, because Proctor becomes mentally stronger after going against his injustice. Proctor speaks out again against Danforth when he refuses to let them “have” his name, which results in his death. Crying as he refuses to sign his name on the document proving he has told the truth, Proctor …show more content…
Abigail, a very manipulative and dissembling character, makes a situation problematic and blames the occurrences on others: “Abigail: Why-- common dancing is all… Why, a very little frog jumped… I know not, she spoke Barbados… I never sold myself! I’m a good girl! I’m a proper girl!” (1258-1259). By adding specific details of a frog being in the soup and how Tituba, the servant, spoke Barbados during the dance, she draws attention and makes the situation seem much worse than it is; she brings suspicion upon everyone, especially Tituba. This allows her to bring the blame off of herself, but at the same time causes more chaos as she tests the unfairness of the situation. Although she is lying, she is speaking out against what she sees as injustice, and this causes there to be attention drawn to her. Additionally, the diction and punctuation Arthur Miller uses in this excerpt makes the people in the scene as well as the reader to have their attention drawn to Abigail. In court, Judge Danforth is bringing attention to