“Don’t touch me - don’t touch me! [...] You’re the Devil's man! [...] I’ll not hang with you! I love God, I love God. [...] He come at me by night and every day to sign, to sign, to- [...] My name, he want my name. “I’ll murder you,” he says, “if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court,” he says!”(Miller 198). In Arthur Miller's “The Crucible” there are many places where weakness, courage, and truth are shown. In this essay you will read how each one of these were presented in the story. In “The Crucible” there are many places where weakness is shown. Weakness is expressed quite a bit by Mary Warren. Mary fails to stand to the truth of what has happened in the trials. This is because Abigail intimidates and pressures her so much that she loses all strength and sides with Abigail. Mary knows everything that has happened, she knows that John is correct. Though all Mary does is turn on him. In the text while Mary is in court testifying against Abi she weakens. Mary falls for Abigail's tricks and states that John is lying. Mary claims that John threatens to murder her if his wife hangs. Mary becomes too weak …show more content…
John is courageous because in the courtroom he does whatever it takes for him to prove that he and his wife are truthful innocent people. John also makes it apparent that his past action of sleeping with Abigail should not define him in the face of reality. Elizabeth is courageous because she stands with John even though he has slept with another woman. She also shows courage by lying to try and cover for her husband, because she is known as a person not to lie. Additionally Giles is very Courageous. Giles is on the verge of death and the only way to keep alive is if he rats out names though Giles exclaims that he will not bring harm to another. While they are weighing his chest down with rocks all he says is “more weight”. Similarly to courage there is also