The Crucible Political Analysis

Changes in social and political attitudes are represented in literature today. In some cases this is how the author expresses his/her opinion on the given attitude. This is exactly what the author of the Crucible is trying to get at. In the play “The Crucible” the author is dealing with a specific matter within the time period, and that is the witchcraft scare that arose around the area. The author is trying to show us how he views this situation. He shows us how he believes that this was just a thought process by using the group of girls, with Abigail who thought they were caught up in witchcraft. Then he uses John Proctor to show the group that was against it to the extreme that they would die because they believed that it wasn’t true. Then the author uses Mary Warren to kind of give the testifying story of how they “came back to reality” by not buying into this witchcraft bogus anymore. The author uses a group of characters to put into …show more content…
Mary Warren is used by the author to show how people can overcome the scare’s of society. In this case it was witchcraft. Previously we have seen two different groups. One being Abigail, the one who is sucked in by this scare. The other being John Proctor, who represents the group of people in society that are strictly against this scare, and will die before they submit to the trend of society. At the beginning of the story Mary Warren seemed to be caught up in the trend of being under witchcraft. On page 870 (Middle of Act 3) Mary confesses saying “I cannot lie no more. I am with God, I am with God.” Mary is trying to say to the court here that she has been lying, and she cannot lie, because that would be against God, but she is clearly stating she is with God. Mary is the part of society that realizes they have gone against their old ways, and notices that this event (witchcraft, in this case) has changed them, and they do not want to be apart of in