What Is The Truth In The Crucible

Introduction
John Proctor, Abigail Williams, Reverend John Hale, and Elizabeth Proctor. When you hear these names, what do you think of? Well, it should be the Salem Witch Trials. The Crucible, read in a large amount of high schools around the nation, popularized this ever so interesting topic. Despite The Crucible being a famous playwright’s take on The Salem Witch Trials, it isn’t so much off from the truth. Even Robin DeRosa states, “Salem texts written to be staged (plays, films, television shows) make explicit the distance between history and fiction by calling attention to the perimeter that constructs the text as a text” (126). The Salem Witch Trials were a devastating event where nearly 100 people were accused and 20 were executed

In short, The Crucible is a romanticized play reenacting the horrendous trials and false accusations of around 100 people. The play consists of four acts, opening with Reverend Parris praying in front of his daughter’s bed. His daughter lies in an unconscious state believed to be a victim of witchcraft. Reverend Parris is questioning his niece, Abigail Williams, because she discovered the girls in the middle of the night dancing in a circle and singing songs with their slave Tituba. Abigail claimed Tituba was murmuring words and making motions over a fire. As the acts go on, a trial is enacted and a scandalous affair is revealed between Abigail and John Proctor. In summary, The Crucible provides a very dramatized version of the Salem Witch Trials and provides the general public with misinterpreted

If Louis XVI of France was born in present day, France may be under the rule of an absolute monarch. If Martin Luther didn’t write the 95 Theses, who knows if the Protestant Reformation would have kicked off in England as fast as it did. Despite some misinterpreted historical information, the Salem Witch Trials were a tragedy that shaped the Bill of Rights when it was created almost five scores later. If the Salem Witch Trials occurred when the constitution was created, the trials would not have enough evidence to accuse anyone of this silly crime. The first, sixth, and eighth amendment would have stopped the trials right in their tracks and would have saved 20 lives and over 100 people from being falsely accused. In a scary, but relieving way, it is fortunate that events like these shaped the Bill of Rights hundreds of years ago, rather than