The Crucible.

                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                              

                                                             The Crucible Essay: Topic Six

                  Have you ever been in a situation that you been blamed for something you never did? You were

Innocent all  along? Well back in the days many people would get blamed for rights and their religious views. 

Back in the old times, McCarthyism was involved and still is used. McCarthyism is being communist and

being accused of something others did. In our class we watched the movie called "The Crucible" by Arthur

Miller. Heportrays the prejudice that existed in the seventeenth hundreds against witches or people who

thought that they were witches were put on trial and sentenced to death. They were being lynched,hanged

and everyone would see.

                   In the Crucible they were many main characters. In the beginning there were a pair of girls that

were caught in the forest dancing. They thought they were involved with witchcraft. So they had to lie that

there was witchcraft involved in Salem, the village that everyone lived in. The lie grew bigger and bigger,

since everyone thought that there was really witchcraft involved. People were forced to say that they were

part of witchcraft,but once they admitted to something that wasn't even true, right away they got lynched.

                    There was a protagonist named Abigail Williams she was involved with the "witchcraft" going

around Salem. She was the one that started all of this lie, because now everyone thinks that there really is a

devil going around Salem. She was always in love with a guy named John Proctor. She knew he was taken,

and she would do anything to get with him. So one day she decided to lie, saying that John Proctor's wife   

Elizabeth Proctor had stab her with a needle. Since there was another girl named Mary Warren had knitted a

doll for Elizabeth, and she had put a needle into the doll. Making it seem as if Elizabeth had done such a cruel

thing. Making everyone believe Elizabeth had done such a thing, they had put her on trial and sentenced to

death, but since she was pregnant they didn't do anything to her.

                    In the movie they got John Proctor to go on trial, they have given him a chance to sign a paper

saying that he was part of witchcraft even though he was innocent. He signed it, but didn't give it over to Dan

forth the minister of the church and the one in control of the trials. Dan forth asked him, "then are you denying

this confession?" and John responded, "I mean to deny nothing!" then Dan forth tried to prove him guilty by

telling him something that way he can be like oh yeah, your right. But he responded " 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? I have given you my soul; leave my

name! (pg.240.) He told Dan forth to leave him alone, but all along they knew he was innocent. Either way

they didn't care, and all of this happened because of a lie that a girl named Abigail Williams started. After all

she had done she regretted it, because now the person she loved was about to get hanged. She tried to make

him escape, getting him the keys out the cage he was put in, but John Proctor refused to leave. They finally

hanged John Proctor as well as the rest of the others that were accused of witchcraft and all along they were

innocent. Elizabeth Proctor stood alone, in the world. As well as Abigail Williams, she got nowhere far.

                    So at the end, why is lying so good? If after everything you do, will get back at you. You wont

get far. This still happens now, not here in LA. but in other places that people believe in witchcraft, and

believe that anyone that is involved with it, should be sentenced to death. What did you learn all out of all

this? I learned that you shouldn't lie, because everything is going to get bigger and bigger, and at the end

people are going to pay consequences for nothing they haven't done. I believe that they're should be proof

when it comes to filing trials on people and being put on death. I believe that they should hang people for no

reason.Nothing will be worth it at the end.

citations.

http://www.shmoop.com/crucible/protagonist-antagonist.html

Book Title: Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Publisher: McDougal Littell Copyright © 2006 by McDougal Littell

Inc. All Rights Reserved

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