Truth In The Crucible

The concept of truth comes up almost daily in modern life and the lines between what is true and false are blurred even now In The Crucible By: Arthur Miller a group of girls lead by Abigail Williams started to accuse different citizens in Salem of witchcraft to save their own reputations. Other members of the community including John Procter tried to expose Abigail and her lies but in a community where the Church and government were one and no real proof they were unable to convince the court of her lies. Eventually the people of Salem started to see though the girls lies and see the truth but by then many had already died. Throughout The Crucible the theme of what is true and what is a lie can be seen it in the accusations of witchcraft, …show more content…
At the beginning of the play we find out that the girls of the village went out and danced in the woods and Reverend Parris caught them. The next morning Betty Parris and Ruth Putnam were so shocked about being caught the night before that they faked being sick. Then the whole town exploded thinking that they were sick because of witchcraft, they blamed Tituba, Parris’s slave, because she was out with the girls the night before. To save her life, Tituba accused Goody Good and Goody Osburn of witchcraft and seeing that accusing others of witchcraft it saved Tituba’s life the other girls started to accuse different people in Salem. Abigail had an underlying reason for accusing people, she wanted to get rid John Proctor’s wife Elizabeth Proctor so that she could have John for herself. The whole time no one has any proof for the accusations the girls made yet everyone believed them and the citizens of Salem struggle to decided who is telling the truth and who is lying. Still innocent lives were taken because of inability to see the …show more content…
Elizabeth finds out and John stops the affair because the knew the he did not really like Abigail at all and only lusted her. After realizing this John stopped seeing Abigail and Elizabeth fired her. Abigail did not like this at all because she believed that John loved her and Elizabeth was only jealous and in her way. She was so determined to get rid of Elizabeth and have John all to herself that she was willing to let innocent people die so that she can get what she wants. To expose Abigail John confessed to adultery and to prove he was telling the truth they brought Elizabeth to confirm his story. Elizabeth for the first time in the play lies and says that John was fateful because she thought that it would save John’s life. This is the Difference between the lies Abigail and Elizabeth told, Abigail lied for lust of John, while Elizabeth lied for love of