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Jealousy In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

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“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!” Proctor cries out (143). The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play that is full of sabotaged instances which brings out sins people do not hope to commit. It starts out to be a life of everyday people while a group of girls start to emerge causing problems to evolve. The practice of witchcraft was the hidden secret that surrounded the girls which later came back to disrupt the people. Religion practice was something huge to be followed and the witchcraft trials did not align with that, this lead to the people's name to be something so important to them. Those who did not follow the ten commandments were killed giving the girls practice, they committed the wrongs but start to put …show more content…

In the Crucible, Arthur Miller uses destructive forces like jealousy and fear to ruin lives and relationships of all people. Jealousy is used as an destructive force because it brings the evil out in so many people which leads them to take such huge matters of destructive revenge. For example, Abigail is madly in love with John Proctor that she will do anything to try and get him which the first step being to get rid of Elizabeth, by death. Abigail took it as far to stab herself with a needle and blame it all on Elizabeth gathering some evidence to show. Elizabeth says to Proctor, “She wants me dead. I knew it all week it would come to this!... She wants me dead, John, you know it!” (60). Elizabeth says these things to John after speaking with Mary Warren at their home, she knows of the affair between Abigail and Proctor but the jealousy is taking an aim on Elizabeth for death. Similarly, an instance of jealousy happens when Thomas Putnam wants to have such high power, wealth, and land that he will do just …show more content…

As a result of such fear, the loved ones had to lie for their own to protect them from these crimes but it does not always turn out to be good. Furthermore, when John Proctor is being prosecuted in the court for lechery he has admitted to this crime he had done but no one believes he would break the law. They now bring in his wife, Elizabeth for questioning and for what she knows she should never admit he did such thing for the reason she is pregnant and does not want him put away. The Danforth questions fiercely, “Look at me! To your own knowledge, has John Proctor ever committed the crime of lechery?...Elizabeth answers, “No sir”. In the moment John Proctor jumps up, “Elizabeth, tell the truth! I have confessed it!” (113). Elizabeth has always known nothing but to protect her husband from sending him away nor ever admitting something horrific against his name. Elizabeth just had to confess it but not knowing her husband already did the fear she had of him being away got her to lie. Equally to this mishap comes in the situation with Mary Warren when she is faced to be hung due to witchcraft she participated in. Mary makes a whole fake scene of seeing the devil as John Proctor is trying to get her to confess to her sins. Therefore, to avoid the punishment herself Mary points quickly at John Proctor saying, “You’re

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Elizabeth responds to John that she wants him to live, but that it his decision to make. Afterwards John asks her about Martha Corey, and when she says that she will not confess, John realizes how cowardly he is: “I am not that man.(she is silent). My honesty is broke, Elizabeth; I am no good man. Nothing's spiked by giving them this lie that were not rotten long before”(Miller 126) Proctor mentions that only out of spite for his captures has he kept silent, but now facing death and seeing the face of his wife, he feels that he should confess.

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