The Crucible: Hysteria and Injustice

I am going to write a essay on The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Throughout the play, John Proctor makes three important confessions. First one being when he told his wife he cheated on her with Abigail, second one is when he confesses he committed lechery in court, and the last one being that he confessed that he was a witch. The first confession was made to get back together with his wife. The second was to expose Abigail Williams for what she has done. And the last one was to save his life but he took that confession back. So all of his confessions have different reasons. But none succeeds in improving his situation.

trying to make them see what is right and wrong. He wants to set them

The confession was too late. Proctor ended up being accused of witchcraft himself after his wife lied to the court to save his name from lechery.

Proctor 's decision to tell the court about his affair ironically demonstrates his goodness. He also spoke up for the innocent girls that had their names branded. He willingly sacrifices his good name in order to protect his wife and others who are wrongly accused. Only through his public acknowledgment of the affair does Proctor regain his wife 's trust. At the end of the play, Proctor refuses to slander himself by allowing the court to make him make a false confession. The court told him to lie, and that if he lies that he would not be sent to the gallows. He did the right decision by telling the truth about his affair with Abigail. He honestly told the truth about the affair, and that he was not part of the witchcraft. His response further exemplifies Proctor 's integrity. But John was not guilty. He had nothing to do with witchcraft, he admitted to his own mistakes. Proctor knows that if he confesses that he will be damned himself, yet again, if he agrees to confess, he will also be free from the torment from the demon inside him and set others free too. This realization, along with Elizabeth 's forgiveness, enables Proctor to forgive himself and finally regain his good name and self-respect. As the court

person council to get them to contradict themselves because he believed that people should be

Hysteria, reputation, and fear. All words that sum up the plot of The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. The Crucible is about the Salem witch trials in 1692. Several young girls claim to be afflicted by witchcraft, starting with Reverend Parris's daughter, Betty. The “afflicted” girls accuse people in the town of witchcraft, often choosing those who they or their families dislike. This leads to hysteria in the town and people being wrongly accused of witchcraft and being hung from it. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller wants to make the point that hysteria can lead to people caring more about their reputation than anything and that hysteria leads to people being wrongly accused.

Despite his being an insignificant and non-status-holding member of society, John Proctor is a much-respected man in Salem. However, in determining his fate, he continues to make several critical and irreversible mistakes that harm his reputation. For fear of being exiled in a town where reputation plays such a large role in their daily lives, Proctor initially tries to hide his crime of adultery, but his affair with Abigail triggers a major series of events in Salem, where simple, unproven accusations escalate to a far larger issue: “Abby—you mean to cry out still others?” “If I live, if I am not murdered, I surely will, until the last hypocrite is dead” (Miller 150). In the end, Proctor decides that for the sake of his desperate circumstances, it would be better to admit to his affair, but by the time he decides to reveal his crime, it is too late to reverse all past actions. He is convicted of witchcraft and doomed to be hanged, later, when given a chance to live, he caves in and confesses to seeing the Devil, only to go back even on this last lie, because he does not have the heart to be freed and saved by a lie.

on his most honorable and blameless man? This part of the story is what I

• Quotation : "It was because he was allowed, because a priest would know what a sin was and would not do it. But if he did it one time by mistake what would he do to go to confession?" (Pg. 58) Situation: During class at Clongowes, one of Stephen's classmates, Fleming is being scolded by Father Arnall, while the rest of the boys are told to do their writing assignment.

had to go after what he believes in even when others doubted what he had set out to accomplish

tend to live His life and make his decisions based on how it will benefit him. Even

will start running a new clock that the judgment on the issue will date back to. This is important

thing in his life was to be a good father. He has got the ability to see into the future and come back and live differently.

of the book. He declines mentally as well, as shown when he thinks he calls out to Reverend

Mass of Hysteria CrucibleIn the 1600s there was a small town name Salem. In the Crucible, Arthur Miller