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Examples Of Evil In The Crucible

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In the Crucible be Author Miller you see morality floating around the courts and through the people. A lot of back and fourth from right and wrong and good and evil is taking place. There are many people being viewed as good or bad and getting punished for unnecessary things left and right. The whole play more so than not portrays morality,it is all based off of good and evil, good and bad people, wrong and right choices, and the main point; witchcraft. They townspeople feel the only good people are christians and the evil ones are the people who are viewed as not religiously stable or when they do uncommon things but not necessarily un normal, for example, reading books or not remembering or failing to recite every commandment. In act 2 Elizabeth says “adultery John” (Miller 67). It's not that he didn't remember, he did not recite it because of his own guilty conscience not because he didn't know it. They are very dramatic when it comes to terms of evil people. They are hanging others for things they view as wrong but the people won't confess to what they are being accused …show more content…

Many viewed her as an angel and truthful but in reality she was not good and had nothing but bizarre ways of getting back at people and bad intentions, she would lie to save herself and wrongly accuse others of doing things to keep her name clean. Meanwhile everyone besides the few who knew her, got the wrong impression and were fooled by her lying front she put up. Abigail was all about making others happy on the outside and a good christian girl to the point she over exaggerated it and her lying got her nowhere. In act 2.2 the text explains, “You mad, you murderous bitch” (Miller 152). By proctor saying this you see that he knows her intentions and even though he made a mistake he is coming to terms with it, she is doing the complete opposite and being selfish. No matter what she does deep down inside she is still evil, and still only cares about

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