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A change in a person can be brought upon by traumatic events in their lifetime. These circumstances can give a new perspective on life and change his or her way of thinking. In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor, Reverend Hale, and John Proctor portray valuable insight into themselves. Elizabeth Proctor was a virtuous woman who was emotionless and unfriendly when she first came about into the play. This led her to face obstacles that have changed her ego. She attempts to…

by our own side, whatever it may be. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible focuses mainly on witchcraft and the devil, and the important roles it plays in a deteriorating Puritan society. In Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, a widespread hysteria breaks out and results in hangings of innocent people driven to insanity by desperation to hold to their radical religious beliefs. When so many were accused of witchcraft, the root of the problem was the devil and lack of God. Characters such as Abigail…

Manipulation normally leads to bad thing. It is beneficial for motivators to achieve their purpose, and government or leader to gains social status and authority by exploiting people’s fear to manipulate them; it lets the manipulated people lose chance to think about themselves ; and it has a huge impact upon increasing terror and fear. The manipulation turns to bad when the manipulator tries to control people by threating them to get his own purpose. In the crucible page 1244，Abigail menaces…

Arthur Miller's The Crucible draws many similarities to the events that occurred in the 1950s known as the Red Scare. During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Senator Joseph McCarthy began trials to investigate suspected Soviet spies and sympathizers that were allegedly residing within the United States. Many U.S. citizens were wrongly accused and thrown in jail. Anyone who spoke out against the trials were then under scrutiny themselves, which scared many people from…

Throughout Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, multiple themes are employed such as the effect of delirium on society, the importance of reputation, and the belief that everyone indulges in the vices of hypocrisy. Miller describes the nonsense of witchcraft destroying the town of Salem. By the end of the play, three months after the accusation incidents, the village is left as a corrupt wasteland. The vengeance of the people allows their trust to falter and friendships to break. For example,…

Greed and Revenge The Crucible by Arthur Miller is about people in Salem being accused of witchcraft. Abigail works for Elizabeth and John Proctor. Then, Elizabeth fires Abigail because of Abigail displeasing her and her husband. Later on, Abigail, accuses Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife, of being a witch so she can be with John Proctor. The play explores the theme that people who claim to be motivated by principles may actually be motivated by greed or revenge, which still applies…

When people have people Accusations made by the girls affected many characters in different ways in The Crucible. Many innocent people were hanged, some were put in prison, but authority of the court kept seeing the girls as “bewitched” victims, rather than lying criminals. After Reverend Hale comes to Salem, his specific education and past experience in that area ascertain the presence of devil in the village as hysteria begins. But after certain period of time, he starts seeing things from a…

Salem Witchcraft The Crucible is set around the 1600’s and written by Arthur Miller. The Puritans lived a very harsh but simple life. The puritans had certainly few values at the time, but they treated them as it was there whole life. The majority of their material values were wants not need, unlike today. Puritans were practically all about religion and a bit of drama thrown in here and there. The Puritans were living a tough yet simple life. They had practically no wants and all the…

The Crucible In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, people lie to save their lives, to save the lives of others, and to maintain their reputation, and these lies negatively impact the characters in the play. For example, after being discovered in the woods and with the realization they will be punished, Abigail and her friends accuse Tituba and other townspeople of witchcraft. When Tituba senses that the blame is on her shoulders, she proceeds to accuse Sarah Good. Once the witch hunt is…

In the crucible there is a big dilemma, there are lies about everything and you can’t trust anybody if you were in the story. We as people reading the book have a very good idea of what’s going on in the beginning, towards the end we know exactly what is going on. We see who is good and bad and who is telling the truth and who is lying and the people who are telling the truth are getting punished and there is nothing we can do about it so we just watch the good people who grew onto us as we were…