In “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller was published in 1953 and is based on the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Parris the reverend his niece Betty would not wake up and there was no medical cause and concluded that the girls were bewitched. Soon girls started crying and saying people's names that were haunting them and this sparked the witch hunt. Over the next eight months, twenty-seven were convicted, nine were hung, one crushed to death, and over hundred imprisoned. In Arthur Miller’s book "The Crucible" the upper class holds the power since they are of more important and thought of than people below them.
Higher class people are cared about more when they are accused then the lower class people? In this scene Mr.Hale is speaking to John Proctor and wife Elizabeth who are higher class people and they are accused of witchery and Hale is pleading that he confesses and not be hanged. “Man you will hang, You cannot”(pg 1164). This quote is showing that John Proctor is a higher class and cared about person since Hale is trying to convince him to confess and not be hanged. If this was anyone lower than him Hale would not try to stop them. “It is a lie!They are innocent”(pg 1159). This relates by showing how caring he is for them by
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Abigail is talking to Parris about what happened to betty and things get heated. “I never sold myself! I’m a good girl! I’m a proper girl!” “She made me do it! She made betty do it!”(pg 1118). Abigail is a higher class person and she knows she has done wrong but does not want to tarnish her name so she blamed it on Tituba a lower class person and they believed it.”Don’t lie! She comes to me while I sleep; she’s always making me dream corruptions.(pg 1119). This is the same thing she just wants to blame the lower class and no one will question her, but just feel bad for her. Indeed that the social conflicts are blamed elsewhere but how do the characters overcome their