Crucible Thesis Statement
Even in today's’ society women are collectively expected to stay quiet and be predominantly obedient to men. But in the play, the crucible by Arthur Miller, he changes that concept completely, and flips those roles when he has all these girls cry witch and they start to accuse the people they wish dead and on the most part they succeed. Since witchcraft is an “invisible crime” there is no proof that they are lying, so whoever is accused is as good as dead. The women in the crucible generally break gender roles because in the play for once, they were the ones calling the shots, they were the ones being loud (and expressing themselves rather creatively and deceptively), and they were the ones disobeying the men. The
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In court there was a time the girls were awfully close to getting revealed as liars by Mary Warren and Abigail took the lead and claimed Mary was bewitching them, “I-I know not. A wind, a cold wind, has come. Her eyes fall on Mary Warren….(MARY WARREN) terrified, pleading, Abby! (48)” Then shortly after this a series of alleged fake witchcraft is displayed in the court claimed that Mary was the one doing it but in reality it was an elaborate improvised gig put on by the girls, lead by Abigail. Shortly after this, Mary Warren retracts her statement and is forced to say witchcraft is real to save her from death, therefore saving the girls from revealed as