Theme Of Justice In The Crucible

The ravenous thirst for power has often driven leaders obsessed with control to do the unthinkable. When amplified by an environment of desperation and greed, all sense of morality within them crumbles, and the corrupt monster that is left runs rampant on the subservient collective.
Words like justice are twisted and applied as a tool of influence, imprisoning people with their own ethical standards. Authoritarian rulers use the term justice to veil power hungry acts as principled, weaponising human beings’ intrinsic desire to do what is right, as they push the collective to achieve what is, ‘just,’ as a cover for the ultimate injustice, fulfilling their own insatiable agenda of greed.
Ethical desires are thus proven to be a double-edged

Through drawing on different historical contexts, these writers could indirectly critique the fundamentally flawed delivery of justice in the political movements they were commenting on. In both The Crucible and Minority Report, we are left questioning the idea of justice itself. We see societies torn apart in the attempt to deliver it, and lives lost to its name. True justice is shown to fall victim to people’s own versions of it repeatedly.
These texts are shown to transcend their own time as this continues to occur with the recent COVID-19 epidemic, making it unclear whether people will ever escape from this cycle, and if true justice will ever be

The struggle of true righteousness in the play is personified by John Proctor, who served to epitomise Miller’s hopes for the actions of his peers during the panic of the Red Scare. Proctor refused to surrender to his fear or dishonestly comply with a fake confession, and instead chose death. Standing on trial as an accused witch in the play’s final moments, Proctor voices a belief which Miller hoped would resound with his readers in the face of the McCarthyism movement, “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name?” Refusing to dishonour those who have died before him, he declares to continue his crusade for integrity until death, before crying out, ‘I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” His neck is then broken by a noose, symbolising the snapping of the anchor between his soul and the control of government. His integrity set him