Examples Of Lying In The Crucible

A “Good Drama” is a play in which the audience can relate personally. A good drama should have meaning to the audience of different types of generations. Arthur Miller’s, “The Crucible” successfully relates to the audience and left us with messages that is still known to today. The Crucible is considered to be a good drama because Arthur Miller created this scripture that addressed the idea of conformity in the American culture, but it also showed the amount of power that individuals can hold because they define the means by which we all live. People make devisions on issues like what is considered to be right and what is considered to be wrong. People like this have existed as history can acknowledge. Hysteria and lying is an idea that has

An example of hysteria in The Crucible is when Abigail, who uses the situation to accuse Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft and they have her put in jail. Another example is when Reverend Parris wants to make his position stronger in the village by making scapegoats of Proctor who question his authority. Thomas Putnam gets revenge on Francis Nurse by getting Rebecca, Franci’s wife convicted of the murders of Mrs. Putnam’s babies. Here are qoutes from the story to help show hysteria: “You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctors wife! You drank a charm to kill goody proctor!” (Miller 468). “Why? Why do you come yellow bird?” (Miller 522). Hysteria, it can play in tearing apart a community most deffinetly. Hysteria is so crazy that is enables people to believe that their neighbors who have always been considered great people are commiting awful crimes such as contacting the devil, and killing babies.In the end, hysteria can thrive only because people can benefit from it. Hysteria suspends the rules of daily life and it allows people to release the anger, the dark side, and the hatefulness under the cover of what is