In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, the characters' motivations seem to be corrupt. Taking a persons life away or saving it, is what motivation can do. The people of Salem tend to use it for there own personal gain instead of helping others. This can be traced back to Thomas Putnam's greed, Mary Warren's fear and Abigail William's lust to falsely accuse there neighbors of witchcraft.
The Crucible There is no greater fall, than a fall off a pedestal. In the play, “The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller, the protagonist John Proctor endures many struggles and as a consequence had many mistakes. Unluckily for John he was placed on a pedestal, he was viewed in the town as a religious figure. Although, through his closeted flaws he fell from his grace, that downfall eventually led to his execution.
The Crucible was written in 1952 by Arthur Miller, the play delivers many messages and carries many themes throughout. Nearly every character in the play is put to the test to display an act of courage, weakness, or truth. Some characters lack these traits and never learn to have courage or display honesty. However, most characters are very courageous and demonstrate these acts throughout the whole play. Overall the theme of the The Crucible boils down to being about honesty, weakness, and courage.
Continuously throughout the play greed is a main cause of persecution. Putnam is a wealthy man with much land but wants more. George Jacobs happens to have a lot of land that Putnam wants, using his daughter Putnam gets Jacobs accused of witch craft and put to death. Jacobs death results in Putnam being able to buy his land. Giles knows the truth behind Jacobs being accused, he makes that clear when he exclaims “If Jacobs hangs for a witch he forfeits his property – that’s law!
Through the characters of Abigail and Parris, Miller illustrates that Jealousy and greed can be more powerfully destructive than any supernatural evils in the play “The Crucible” written by Arther Miller. Reverend Parris is the head of the church in Salem, as the church leader with a Harvard degree he doesn't feel like he's paid enough, he thinks because he's the church leader he's better than the rest of the town and deserves more pay, Reverend Parris says, “The salary is sixty-six pound, Mr, Proctor! I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard college” (Miller 29). Parris cares more about his pay and status than preaching about God and the evil spirits in the town.
Poor Behavior in “The Crucible” Ever wonder why people dies in The Crucible? The impact of Poor Behavior is exhibited throughout The Crucible. Most of the characters act badly.
Jealousy Throughout Salem Jealousy does not only cloud our judgment of ourselves but it also leads to the destruction of friendships. Trials were beginning to take place in Salem over the idea of people practicing witchcraft. During this time people could accuse anyone without any hard evidence. With that being allowed, it caused a tremendous amount of problems and also resulted in the death of many innocent people.
Arthur Miller's The Crucible highlights a human frailty, arrogance, responsible for the witch hysteria in the 1690s. Each character portrays arrogance which make him abuse power. The play explores the human nature of being arrogant and the fear of tarnishing one's reputation, by acting unmorally. Through Hale's, Parris's, and Danforth's actions, Miller indicates that arrogance is the frailty most responsible for the witch hysteria.
Hypocrisy is the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense. In the book the Crucible there are many hypocrites some dishonest some just following any one to be guilty, but one of the many character is Judge Danforth he mocks Marry when he ask "How were you instructed in your life? Do you not know that God damns all liars?"(3-84), since Danforth is in power for being the judge he thinks that everyone else is ignorant and not being equal as him.
As a French Proverb states, “greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth”. People are consumed with wanting more and more rather than knowing what they need in life. The human race constantly carries on this pattern of greed. A theme of greed is shown in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.
In Arthur Miller's “The Crucible” (1953), it is shown that people seem to forget basic morals when dealing with mass hysteria. Puritans in the play do not want the devil or any other demonic figures such as witches in their community, they will go to great lengths, as far as turning their back on their own people to get rid of these demonic figures as shown in “The Crucible”. This idea of witches in the community caused chaos in the village which led to the deaths of 20 people in the village. Do people in the play not care about the consequences other people face because of their actions? In the play, loyalty falls far below self selfishness in the face of mass hysteria.
In the short story, "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar A. Poe entail various symbols that consist of: east and west, the ebony clock, the masked figure and Prince Prospero's castellated abbey. The overall allegorical message Poe establishes is that eventually everyone dies, even though they try to prevent death. East and West and Prince Prospero's castellated abbey signify in complexity of how they initiate Poe's usage of symbolism. The seven rooms in Prince Prospero's kingdom depicts the progression of life, by demonstrating it east and west. The text states,"...eastern extremity...in blue...second chamber was purple...third was green..
Ethos. Miller continuously uses the ethos appeal by using sophisticated words and adding in his own person experience to show us as the reader that he knows what he is talking about. Throughout his passage he consistently adds very advanced word choice. For example, he says things like “Lucifer’s many faced lieutenants, diabolism, bemused, cosmology, and social antagonist”. However, with all these words and phrases there is another much less complicated way to say the same thing.
Back in the late sixteen hundreds the people during that time are very strict on religion. During the time a colony in the Americas called the puritans believed in witchcraft. People that are accused are guilty till proven innocent. In the Crucible it portrays injustice by how Danforth is not following court that is ruled by religion, Abigail intimidating the court, and the accused not having proper court rights. The following reasons will explain why the crucible is injustice.
“According to the Death Penalty Information Center, most death penalty studies that look at race indicate that a defendant is more likely to receive the death penalty if the victim is white, rather than black” (Butler). Paul Butler emphasizes that the death penalty is unconstitutionally cruel because the reason why people are sentenced to capital punishment is due to their race. A person’s race is focused more on a conviction for the death penalty than the actual crime itself. As a result, this causes the death penalty to be unacceptable in society. At least eighteen states have already ended capital punishment since early 2014; however, some states have not and continue to have it because they don’t see it as cruel.
