Examples Of Blindness In The Crucible

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible a town starts massacring townspeople because a group of girls are pretending to be possessed by witches.  John Proctor, a character in The Crucible, is a Non-conformist who stubbornly avoids following the crowd and is honest by not being able to lie to the court. John Proctor’s character may revealed through his refusal to sign his name on a false confession, his inability to believe in the witches in the town and his honesty when confessing to the affair with Abigail.

Danforth starts the play with a lot of arrogance. He believes his side of the trial is correct, and only his side. Through out the trials, he starts to see faults in Abigail’s story and begins to question his court decisions. Danforth knows that Proctor’s wife, Elizabeth, is an honest woman and would never lie in court. Since he believes some truth in Proctor’s confession, he decides to bring Elizabeth into the court. When Proctor exposes himself to lechery with Abigail, she has no choice but to give in. Danforth illustrates the theme by deciding to call Proctor guilty and sent to jail. With Proctors statement, she knows she has no choice but to confess before Elizabeth confesses and she will be punished in a worse manner. As act two progresses, Danforth shows that having a lack of knowledge can lead to irrational

“The Crucible” is a melancholy story about witchcraft that occurs in the town of Salem, Massachusetts which takes place in 1692. Salem is a very strict, religious Puritan community which does not tolerate any form of non-religious behavior or action. In this Puritan town, a witch hunt ensues after young female members of the community tell multiple lies to their leaders; under those circumstances, many individuals are condemned and hung for these false accusations. It is until one member of this community is arrested, the hunt for the truth ensues. Fear drives these Puritans to reveal the truth and face their accusers in the biased court. In this story, readers are introduced to the characters Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Proctor, and John Proctor all have different personalities, motives, desire, and relationships that help shape the story of the Salem Witch Trials.

Arthur Miller’s, “The Crucible”, takes place during 1692 when freedom of religion was emerging and various views about religion was expressed that were not directly in line with Christianity. In this play, Christianity religion divided in sects of Puritans, Atheist, and Witch Craft. “The people of Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and religious power whose function was to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it to destruction by material or ideological enemies” (Miller, pg. 6). In this Salem village, the people were practiced Puritans. Villagers believed that the practice or belief in witchcraft was a crime punishable by hanging. They believed that witchcraft was a “compact” (agreement) with the Devil or Lucifer to do harm to the people. Anyone believed to be in compact with the devil would be subject to death by hanging. The plot and conflict of this play is focused on a witch-hunt of townspeople who are believed to have practiced witch craft and a trial ensues to determine their fate. During the progression of this play, we discover that three characters feed the hysteria that surrounds the Salem Witch

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, many rumors of witchcraft have been spreading after Betty Proctor became sick. This, in turn, leads her father, Reverend Parris, to call Reverend Hale into the town to prove that these rumors are false, but in turn, he does the opposite. Because of this, many innocent people in Salem, in 1692, are convicted and hung for being witches. Hale’s deceitful knowledge of witchcraft drives him to falsely confirm that good citizens have committed witchcraft which leads to the execution of many innocent citizens.

In the year 1692, the quiet town of Salem, Massachusetts went into utter turmoil as accusations of witchcraft ran rampant throughout the town resulting in multiple deaths. Arthur Miller's, The Crucible, depicts the events that took place in Salem that year. A group of young girls dancing in the forest sparked the fears of many. The girls feared punishment, the ministers and priests feared the devil, and the people feared witches, so they all lied. Lying is a major theme in this play. Characters in The Crucible use lies out of fear with the hopes of gaining power over others.

Within The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, the people of Salem were going through a period of mass hysteria in which innocent people were accused of being witches by a group of girls. John Proctor, a farmer who tries to expose the girls, is to blame for the Salem Witch trials. Not only does he lead Abigail Williams on and makes her think it was acceptable to defy Puritan belief, he also holds a greater value for his reputation since he kept quiet when Abigail confessed to him that the girls were only faking. When John Proctor visits the Salem town,news of Betty Parris spread throughout the town of Salem, as well as news of Ruth Putnam, and the people of Salem turned to witchcraft as the cause. John Proctor met up with Abigail and she believed

Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is set in Puritan Salem, where people are deeply religious. The Puritans believe God is the creator of all things and if the Bible does not explain their questions or doing, they are the devil’s work. Also during this time period, the Puritans closely watch their neighbors to see what they are doing. In the beginning of the story, the protagonist Abigail and a bunch of girls are performing witchcraft in the woods, which is against the Puritans’ laws. When Abigail’s Uncle Reverend Parris found out, he needs to protect his repetition, so he demands Abigail to cover for him and stop the rumor that has been spread across Salem about the girls committing non Puritan acts out in the woods. As a result, Abigail,

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller a series of events having to do with the Salem Witch Trials occur. A group of girls are trying to do witchcraft in order to find out what had happened to Mrs. Putnam’s babies because all but one of them had died. However, the Reverend who preached at the church there Reverend Hale was looking for them in the woods and found them doing a strange dance and saw one of the girls naked. One of the girls was in love with another character who had already had a wife, John Proctor.

In the theater production, The Crucible, there are many different characters, with many different traits. The story is about the town of Salem, Massachusetts, and the witch trials in the year 1692. Some of the town’s girls, led by Abigail Williams, had been spotted in the woods dancing and cooking something in a pot. When the slave named Tituba was held accountable, she said that all these girls had been conjured by witches and wish to turn back to God. The girls, especially Abigail seem to be a savior to the town, by giving up witches who live there. Not everyone thinks that this is true. One of these people is John Proctor. He had an affair with Abigail, but does not want to have anything to do with the witch trials. He is forced to get involved when is wife, Elizabeth, is wrongly accused by Abigail, who still wants to be with John. John is determined, innocent and worried.

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible tells the story of Puritans in New England during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. In Act I of the play, some girls of the village are seen “dancing in the woods” and partaking in devilish acts such as conjuring spirits in the woods. Then, the girls start claiming they had seen the spirits and names of other women in the village. This proves that rumors, lies, jealousy, and other dangers plague the villagers and serve as the base for this play.

The status of women continuously changes, however while going through the play The Crucible, women 's’ social standing clearly acts as one of inferiority and subordination to male characters. This contributes greatly to the general structure of the storyline. The role of women taking place in the time of the Salem Witch Hunts in 1692, symbolizes the manipulative ways that female characters can become able to make their way to the top of society in the courts, held to a very high esteem. Backstabbing, lies, adultery, death, and madness all develop themselves as active themes in the story, especially in the female characters, causing for the story to become more interesting and rich in detail. This play not only proves the usual role of women being secondary to men. It also demonstrates how when a frenzy of fear and emotion moves into action, even the lesser of the genders can rise to power, evolving all the more the most civilized of characters into a hole of dismay and insecurity. Such female characters fitting these stereotypes in The Crucible, include Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor. Both women supply greatly to the stirring of the pot of concern that took over Salem, and directly affect several characters, specifically John Proctor and the court officials. These circumstances ensure an entirely new stance of women in the town, issuing for an engrossing read.

The Crucible is a play that takes place in the 17 century in Salem, Massachusetts. As the play starts, Reverend Parris caught some girls naked dancing in the woods. Apparently the girls where stirring up spirits and to escape the punishment of the accusations of being witches, they blame other women in Salem. Later on in the play, Elizabeth Proctor finds out about John Proctor and Abigail having an affair. Abigail soon accuses Elizabeth of being a witch to remove her and to get her out of the picture. A doll is then found at her house and the evidence is being stacked against her. Deputy Danforth is the judge for the trials while the girls begin blaming each other for being witches. Reverend Hale is brought in as an expert witness and first believes the girls are witches but over time he starts to believe the ones who are accused. John Proctor gets Mary Warren to testify against the girls. The next day, Mary testifies that the girls are lying. They respond by acting like Mary is bewitching them, stating phrases such as “Mary, this is black art to change your shape” (115). Mary then states the John Proctor is bewitching her and is under his influence; he gets arrested moments later. Three months later, Proctor is asked to confess or get hanged. The jury then accuses John of being an associate of the devil. As Danforth wants him to sign a confession,

In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Miller uses The Salem Witch Trials, an allegory, to create a historical fiction. Miller uses this idea of The Salem Witch Trials to present alertness to the people in consideration of McCarthyism, where innocent people were being persecuted based on unreliable credibility. John Proctor, who is well honored in Salem, undergoes experiences in which his name and reputation become modified, and actions of impurity arise such with the town Andover, the thoughts of witchcraft and the process of Rebecca Nurse being not susceptible to committing a sin. Although the Salem Witch Trials may be the outline for the play, The Crucible acknowledges how the Puritans in the play, based on their Puritan beliefs, do not set out to be Puritans during the time of The Salem Witch Trials.

At the beginning of The Crucible written by Arthur Miller there are two girls that are in a coma like state. This leads to the early rumors of witchcraft throughout Salem. When Reverend Hale arrives in Salem he doesn’t want to jump to the accusation of witchcraft right away, but the majority of the town wants him to believe that it is witchcraft. Then teenage girls start to accuse women in the town of being witches. We find out that John Proctor and his wife Goody Proctor have a complicated relationship. We discover that John cheated on Goody Proctor with a teenage girl. Hale shows up at the Proctor’s house, testing the Proctors on their Christianity. While he is questioning them, the police show up at their house to take away Goody Proctor for being a witch. In the courtroom one of the girls has decided to change sides. She was to spineless to stick with her guns and changed back sides again. This leads to John getting arrested. Finally John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey, get hanged for not confessing to being witches. Reverend Hale’s confidence about witchcraft is what allows him to fall for the hysteria, but recognizing his mistakes he turns on everything he knows to help those accused live, which is why he is The Crucible’s most forgivable character.