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Examples Of Irony In The Crucible

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Out of the many varying types of irony presented in Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, situational is by far the most evident. Miller included this to show the idea that the entirety of the Salem witch trials was ironic. The Puritans followed the concept of a theocracyin an attempt to bring the community closer together and ultimately rid themselves of the danger of wicthraft. However, this was most certainly not the case in Salem. Sotuational irony playes a part in this towards the end of the play when the survuors are starting to realize all of the bad things that have come from their actions over the past year, “there are orphans wandering from house to house; abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere,
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