Examples Of Lies In The Crucible

Anyways Abigail friend named Tituba seemed to be a real witch because it seemed that people had proof she was . Tituba wanted Mister Parris killed because he would have slaves and white people belonging to him and I think Tituba was one of them. Tituba knew that the devil was going for the innocent flesh first because it was easier for him .Abigail wanted to be a part of Jesus again ,she seemed tired of dancing with the devil or doing his troubled work and she was too tired of everything he or the other witches would do . The whole village wanted to send them to court because the witches or the deficient to be witches didn't/don't anything just sway in the forest and they seem that they realized that Tituba was really a witch because he apparently k how to do witchcraft and I think that Abigail and Betty were learning from Tituba . Tituba didn't really want anything bad to happen , it seemed that he just wanted to do it for seeming entertaining for him and everybody in the village took it the wrong way and wanted them to be hung I believe or just wanted them to be punished

Miller uses Abigail Williams to show how she uses herself during times of hysteria which generates chaos. After the girls are caught by Reverend Parris, they blame their behavior and actions on the Devil. In addition, Tituba has called upon on Parris, and made them dance in the woods. Abigail refuses to confess and begins to blame innocent people of sending the Devil upon them, eventually leading to accusations of witchcraft in the community of anyone acting unusual. Her fear of having her name ruined leads to making false accusations of other people of using witchcraft.

In The Crucible, Arthur miller writes, “No one was naked! You mistake yourself, uncle.”(Miller 144) In other words it shows that Abigail is lying about the girl who was naked and dancing with them at night in the middle of the woods. She told Paris that there was no girl dancing in the woods because she knows that they will all get in a lot of trouble so she start lying. This relate to my topic because it is about lying, and how the play started by how a lie drag another lie which lead to people dying.

The Crucible has a few themes relating to honesty and deceit, but the most prominent example is how eventually the truth will always come out. It’s a theme that’s directly tied to the events the play is inspired by. Obviously, the hanging of witches is silly in hindsight, but the example that’s seen throughout the play is how the girls lied to the town, and how the town slowly learns this. Because the truth always comes out, everyone knew of how the children lied for their own gain.

She is sent into a spiral of confusion for her lust of John Proctor and is sent by her beast to do irrational thinking and send out a spell asked of by Abigail to Tituba who's is the creator of the demons within herself and others. The actions to come from Abigail will not only get her sent out of the Proctor house but only swirl like a hurricane and suck others into the eye to grab there attention and escalate the true happenings of false accusations to behold the uncertainty of others in the village. Although Abigail did go to face her demon John himself but had failed to overcome her most desired need of him to be with her she did not have the strength inside her to overcome the fear of rejection in the end which lead her to think irrationally when this demon walks in her body like a devils play ground to do as he pleases so she may have her most desired possession. No matter what the demon wants what it wants so she lies and proclaims false hoods on her fellow citizens and obtains followers to fall to her own cult which these demon uses to its advantage to cause the deaths of many citizens to gets it way. Although Abigail is still within the demon has taken control her worst fear has happened proctor no longer wants her so the demons reign has ended. She runs from the false hoods that

First, Abigail Williams was caught dancing in the woods by her uncle, Reverend Samuel Parris. At the beginning of act one, Abigail, her cousin Betty, and some other girls from Salem village were caught dancing in the woods. There was a house slave of Reverend Parris , Tituba who gathered the girls in the woods to grant their wishes about wanting boys to love them, and do magical things. This was seen as a sign of witchery and calling for the devil. Towards the end of act one, Abigail Williams is asked by a visiting Reverend Hale, who possessed her and called out the Devils name. Abigail was quick to accuse Tituba of performing witchery.

In Nicholas Hytner’s 1996 film version of Arthur Millers’ play The Crucible, Tituba and Abigail tell many lies, some of them are justifiable while others aren’t. What makes a lie wrong or justifiable is a matter of personal opinion. When determining what makes a lie wrong I think we should look at three things: the why, the cause, and the consequences. In The Crucible, Tituba and Abigail lie to get out of a situation that they caused themselves. Their lies were not justifiable, because they put the consequences onto somebody else.

In society, we are blind to the lies that are taking place around us every day. Small lies, big lies, lies right in front of our face, and we are oblivious to almost all of it. This is shown really well in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Throughout the play, which takes place during the witch trials that took place in Salem, lies make up a big portion of the plot. Some of these types of lies that are used are described very well in Stephanie Ericsson’s essay The Ways We Lie. These variations of lies amplify the outrage created, through McCarthyism, and the Salem Witch trials that take place in the play The Crucible.

Adolf Hitler once said,“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” Lies as seen in The Crucible are told frequently, the biggest and most important lies being told by John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Elizabeth Proctor. The Crucible contains many lies throughout the play, intertwining with each other some leading to the death of John Proctor. During the 1950s, with McCarthyism and Joe McCarthy rising to power by falsely accusing others of being communists, during the second red scare. Lies that lead to catastrophes as seen in The Crucible, are the cause of people’s deaths and spread like wildfires until they consume everything in their path.

Throughout the play, Abigail Williams constantly lies to other people to keep her good reputation. When John Proctor asks about Betty's poor condition, she says they were just dancing in the woods and Betty got startled and fainted. She denies any involvement of witchcraft. However, she doesn't tell Proctor she also drank chicken blood to kill his wife, Elizabeth. Abigail and John Proctor were deceiving

In society, we are blind to lies that are taking place around us everyday. Small lies, big lies, lies right in front of our face, and we are oblivious to almost all of it. This is shown really well in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Throughout the play, which takes place during the witch trials that took place in Salem, lies make up a big portion of the plot. Some of these types of lies that are used are described very well in Stephanie Ericsson’s essay The Ways We Lie. These variations of lies amplify the outrage created, through McCarthyism, and the Salem Witch trials that take place in the play The Crucible.

In the 1600’s women and men were blamed for witchcraft that apparently happened in the small towns. Everyone was blamed when a child started acting up because everyone thought that someone was putting their spirit amongst them. This is all shown in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller shows the life in a small village of people with a church and kids. Kids acting really weird because of ‘witchcraft’, and all of the women being accused of witchcraft because of what it says in the Bible. Reverend Parris shows in the play The Crucible that the Bible doesn’t lie, but also people don’t lie or try not to lie when their lives are put on the line.

People lie all the time such as in the Crucible lying is a very common practice throughout the play as can be seen through the characters of John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Elizabeth Proctor. The Crucible containing many lies throughout the play, intertwining with each other some leading to the death of John Proctor. During the 1950s with McCarthyismm and Joe McCarthy rising to power falsely accusing others of being communists, during the second red scare. Lies that lead to catastrophes as seen in the Crucible; being the cause of people’s deaths and overall run amuck and get out of control.

Infused with mystery, fear grim facts and records, Witchcraft history can be traced back to centuries. During the Salem Witch Trials, false accusations were being spread around leading to the community of Salem to be filled with fear and death. In his novel, The Crucible, Arthur Miller argues that making false accusations and rumors can ruin a person’s reputation, and eventually, a community.

People are often told that lying is the wrong thing to do; it is evil, inhumane, and overall terrible. Despite this fact, lying has been shown to hand people multiple benefits. These benefits can be anything from getting out of doing house chores to looking cool in front of classmates. Because of this, many people use this form of deception to remove themselves from unwanted problems in the community. The Crucible, a play written Arthur Miller, portrays a disrupted society where people are accused of witchcraft for any abnormal activity. The accused witches are either forced to “confess” to their involvement with witchcraft or be executed in the gallows. The characters in the play display to the readers that lying provides protection towards people in different ways.