The Fear & Suspicion Of The Crucible How does fear and suspicion take place in creating and pressuring the conflict and the crazy events that take place in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible? Well first things first fear is an unpleasing feeling caused by danger, evil or pain, either the threat is real or created by imagination. For one it causes feelings of dread and anxiety. Fear can lead to hysteria which isn’t good for people around the world. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible fear and hysteria are the foundation of the book and interesting and conflicting events that take place in the community of Salem. It is the answer to results in the process of the community. It is fear and hysteria that urge the Salem Witch. Arthur Miller creates a great example of how people can easily turn against each other in times of a violent and bad situation, including the waste and the power of the lives of others in reality and in doing so. It develops a similarity to The Crucible to the leading cause of the McCarthyism in the time of this book. The fear is imposed by the rule of everyday life and allowed the acting out of every dark and bad feeling. Also a hateful urge to cover what’s right and what’s wrong. This is understood when Abigail Williams uses the situation to accuse Elizabeth Proctor of so called …show more content…
Hale arrives and says that he hasn't got any confessions yet. The court decides that they will bring in Elizabeth Proctor to speak with him and convince him to own up to his mistake. Elizabeth and John where left alone and then Elizabeth informs John of Giles Corey's death. Giles was pressed to death with heavy stones because he refused to plead guilty or innocent to the charges of witchcraft. When Giles Corey was being pressed with stones he had a famous last two words and they where “More Weight” and that man went out like a