John Proctor the Wrongly Accused In The Crucible there are many people condemned and hanged for witchcraft, one of these, John Proctor, I believe to be innocent. A man with as much integrity and honesty as John Proctor, could never perform the act of witchcraft. Undoubtedly he wasn’t a perfect man but no one ever is. As we are proved time and time again, John is an honest, hardworking man; who is haunted by his past misdeeds.
After a sporting event, have you ever heard “We lost because of this person” or “It’s his fault we lost?” Well, this is an example of scapegoating. Scapegoating is the act of putting the blame of an event on to a specific person, or a group of people. Scapegoating plays a big role in some pieces of literature, especially The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The Crucible is about the Puritan village of Salem Massachusetts back in 1692, during the witch hunts.
Who's to Blame For the Salem Witch Trails? In Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," Abigail Williams, Judge Danforth, and John Proctor are responsible for the witch trials. Not only is Abigail one of the characters responsible for the witch trails, but she is the one who instigated the witchcraft fervor within Salem. John is one of the characters responsible for the trails because he has an affair with Abigail.
Rags to Riches In the story “Grades and Money”. Steven Vogel, a college professor teaching philosophy at a small private college in the Midwest talks about students worrying about getting better grades, rather than learning the material. He discusses how back when he was in school students never talked about what their grade was in a class, and now that’s all kids talk about. He gives many examples of students being open about their grades.
Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. During this time, many people are hung for being accused of performing witchcraft, but who is there to blame? During this time, many people feared for their lives, and others used this as a time to get rid of people. In The Crucible, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Deputy-Governor Danforth are responsible for the witch trials in Salem. The play begins with many girls dancing in the woods and people being accused of witchcraft.
When we ask ourselves who is at fault, we tend to ignore that most of the time it 's ours. We just assume that we were helping and making things better for ourselves or others. After reading the play the crucible by Arthur Miller, this topic seemed to really relate. The most responsible or at fault for causing hysteria in the Crucible would have to be Abigal Williams and Judge Danforth. The two are the most at fault for their falsehood, accusations, stubbornness, biasedness, and most of all the jealousy Abigal had for Elizabeth Proctor.
We should express our guilt in order to prove innocence. In Act 3 of The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, John Proctor states "The woman has never lied Your Excellency. "(miller 103) after admitting that he has slept with Abigail Williams. He was talking about his wife Elizabeth Proctor saying she is an honest woman. Also in Act 3 Mary Warren comes out and says that she and the mean girls were acting the whole time Abigail then tries to show that Mary was a witch by stating "Mary don't tear off my face!"(miller 106) this signifies that Abigail was good at acting even in bad situations.
Arguably, one of the most important characters of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is protagonist John Proctor. In Salem’s community, he stands with a level head as a progressive, strong-willed and passionate man. However, Proctor plays a large role in the inaction of the witch hunt because of his affair with Abigail who is still in love with him when he no longer reciprocates her love. As an act of revenge, Abigail attempts to take away what Proctor loves, including Elizabeth who she frames for an attempted murder through witchcraft. He mimics that of a tragic hero archetype because he struggles with a guilty conscience of the affair with Abigail and beings to lose what loves.
The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a tragic play that alludes to 1960’s McCarthyism. In the 60’s everyone was “witch hunting” communists and many actors and artists were convicted of treason when they weren’t even communists. Miller drew saw many similarities between puritan America and anti-communist America. Many innocent people were died because of the hysteria and mob mentality that occurred in both times. The deaths that happened in The Salem Witch trials and 1960’s
Guilt, guilt can mean many things. To most people though guilt means feeling bad for someone or feeling bad for yourself. Guilt often occurs when one is embarrassed or sad that something happened. Guilt can cause a person to assist the victim and help that person get better. Guilt is a very common theme in The crucible and is constantly shown in characters throughout the play, Reverend Hale is one of those characters.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a dramatic play that expresses a very important message and that is how far people would go to save themselves from the hands of death. There are many characters in the Crucible who are guilty of taking innocent lives, but there are three major characters who, without a doubt, are the most at blame. The play takes place in the city of Salem, a city filled with people that would do anything to keep their reputation clean. Throughout the play, Miller is introducing multiple characters that experience changes in their decisions and negatively influence more people eventually leading up to the witch trials. The main point that the story revolves around is that people would rather lie and blame someone else instead of confessing and accepting the punishment.
Arthur Miller conveys his beliefs about false accusation through the words of John Proctor and the dilemma he faces through this situation. This play portrays what Arthur Miller thinks in the time period of the 1950’s. Throughout the story John Proctor faces false accusations that are not only accusing him but accusing others as well of things that they have not done. This angers John Proctor because he wants the truth to be spoken.
In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, guilt deeply affects the actions and behavior of the characters. The guilt that the character feels is the driving force that causes them to make decisions that they would not have made otherwise. In the play, the characters' guilt stems from multiple sources, including their misdeeds and the social pressures of Salem's puritan community. The first character seen with guilt in the play is John Proctor. Farmer Procter had a two-timing affair with Abigail Williams, the main antagonist of the play.
A witch hunt is an attempt to find, blame or punish a certain group of people who are being blamed for something, most of the time it's simply because of their opinions and not because they actually did something wrong. In the play,”The Crucible”, Arthur Miller picks apart and dives into the Salem Witch Trials and how they were wrongfully conducted under the said “law.” The characters manipulated the whole society of their village into believing the nonsense idea of witchcraft and who was a witch based on their personal opinions and theories. The Free Speech Center in their article “Miller was influential playwright post-World War II” stated, “ During the tense and hard time of McCarthyism, Arthur Miller was inspired to write a play reflecting
In the story, "The Crucible" there are many fatal events from specific categories and that is gossip, lying, and hate an example is the "Rodricus Crawford" Case, he was accused for suffocating a three-year-old child and almost sentenced to death row because people were gossiping about saying it was him who did it. That was because the people accusing him didn’t like him and lied about it, and told other people false information. Abigail has accused many innocent people like Elizabeth for attempting to kill her and summoning demons which is not true. Some of the characters in the story consistently lie throughout the story.
