The Crucible Lessons Learned Analysis

The events of The Crucible are drastic, yet the characters can extrapolate everyday themes from them. This means that The Crucible forces characters into an extreme situations that characters were forced to learn lessons from. Lessons learned in this event were fairly simple for such drastic situations. They were lessons that someone could learn in an everyday situation, yet it took an extraordinary situation for the characters to learn them. One lesson that was learned in this play was that honesty is not always the best policy. Elizabeth learned this when her husband, John Proctor, was going on trial. Elizabeth didn’t want him to go to jail, so even though she never lies, she lied to protect him. She said she knew of nothing going on between

The lesson being referred to is sometimes you have to do things that you don’t really want to do. In The Crucible, this can be seen when Proctor was convicted. Due to his conviction, he was morally forced to confess so he could keep his honor. He knew his confession would result in his death, making him hesitant to do so, but he decided that his moral obligations were more important than his life. This was a rather extreme circumstance to be put into to learn a lesson when a normal instance of this lesson could be something like doing homework. You don’t really want to do homework, yet you have to. To sum it up, it doesn’t take Proctor having to die in order to learn that you sometimes have to do things you don’t want

The events of The Crucible are very drastic when compared to a daily event. Due to how drastic The Crucible is, it provides more life or death situations, and whether or not the characters learn the themes can become the determining factor to whether or not they live or die. The fact that these lessons put people closer to death is a strong reason for why these ideas might have stuck in their heads better. When people are afraid, their focus becomes intensified and since most people realize they don’t want to be forced into that situation again, so they try to figure out everything in their power to prevent that event from happening again. This means that people are more susceptible to learning themes when they are afraid. Although this is true, this isn’t always the case due to the fact that these themes can still be learned within daily life. Some of these themes could even be extrapolated from the other circumstances in the book in a much less drastic situation. For example, the theme “Sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to do” could have also been learned when Elizabeth had to talk to Proctor about his affair with Abigail. She didn’t want to talk about it, yet she had to since it was an important subject that was creating issues in their relationship. This situation was much less likely to result in death as well as less extreme when compared to the circumstance when