Evolution Of A Simple Lie In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

Lying perhaps is one of the most contempt behaviors by societies, religions and laws. However, lying remains the highest practiced behavior and it stretches long back in history. As in the masterpiece play The Crucible, the author Arthur Miller illustrates and focuses on the evolution of a simple lie by a young girl trying to escape a hard punishment for her wrongdoing, which led to more false accusations and deceits. While Miller demonstrates the impact of lying on destroying the stability of an entire community in the 17th century, similarly in the 21st century, fouls and deceptive intelligence by the American administration swayed unjustified war that devastated the nation of Iraq. In spite of time and location, lying expansion from simple

The Crucible begins with Mercy, Mary Warren and Abigail tries to fix an exit to the hanging penalty if they convicted of witchcraft after they were caught in the wood with what was believed forbidden behaviors. As Abigail insists and demands the other girls to continue the lie she established with her uncle about the real intent of the girls gathering in the forest that morning “Abigail: Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (Act 1) to accept the whipping punishment for dancing instead of hanging and death for witching. Likewise, after the brutal attacks of the September 11th, the United State of America administration delivered strong beliefs of incorrect proclamations regarding Iraq ties to the terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, and assuring the American publics and the entire word Saddam’s, Iraq dictator at that time, possessions of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The administration deliberately pushed those misleading information to mask the real motivation behind the need for invading Iraq and removing Saddam from

As such, for Abigail’s first lie to survive, she had to continue fabricating numerous lies and falsely accusing innocents to move her from the confronted to the victim position. Throughout the play, Abigail lied her way out of trouble after she acknowledged her escape relied on satisfying the community with what they want to hear rather than the truth. Such behavior raised many innocents’ death. In a similar fashion, the Bush administration wanted to leave no doubt about the necessity of invading Iraq and the threat Saddam imposes on the United State and the rest of the world. Cannon, Carl, the White House correspondent for National Journal and the author of Untruth and Consequences, points out how the administration persisted to add fabricated evidences and accusations to guarantee the public and the world approves resulting in a war with countless number of innocent casualties, “Yet Bush has gradually built a record of partial truths, half-truths, and untruths. Several cases in