The Guilt In The Crucible

The crucible is all about the author and his times in Salem, a dozen teenage girls, and ebony slave women were caught dancing in the woods. Today you would not even utilize the word CAUGH. You might cerebrate that the girls are mad about something. But you scarcely call the cops on them but it’s 1692 and Salem isn’t just mundane town then. It’s a religious community and the people and their laws are very acrimonious there. During the winter of 1691 and 1692 Salem village had a mass hysteria over the possibility of witchcraft in their village. The Salem witch hunt was the view as one of the unorthodox chapters in human history. Reputation can play a consequential role in our everyday lives. It is how we are defined as people. There is no middle when it comes to reputation, only good or lamentable. 

People will act a certain way predicated on their reputations. Some will go out of their way to the last dying breath to ascertain they leave with a good or lamentable reputation. It is predicated upon the Salem witch tribulations. The three main characters of THE CRUCIBLE are John Proctor, Abigail Williams, and Reverend Parris. When put in a tight situation dealing with life or death, all of these characters opt to keep their reputations rather than preserve their lives or do the right thing. John Proctor is a puerile farmer who is espoused to Elizabeth Proctor. He is prominent and venerated in the town. Sometime in the past, afore the play and movie, Proctor committed adultery with his auxiliary, Abigail Williams. John Proctor has always felt deplorable for the mistake he had made. 

Abigail is deeply in love with him and will virtually do anything to endeavor to retain him. Throughout the whole play, Abigail incriminates different people of witchcraft in an endeavor to glom him away from Elizabeth. Abigail verbally expresses, ‘A wild thing may verbalize wild things. But not so wild, I cerebrate. I have optically discerned you since she put me out; I have visually perceived your nights’. Abigail is verbalizing about the affair she had with John Proctor and how she is still in love with him. Elizabeth, John’s wife kicked Abigail out after this issue but she still cannot get over him.Proctor faces another predicament when his wife, Elizabeth, gets incriminated of the verboten malefaction witchcraft. One evening, while John and Elizabeth were victualing dinner, someone knocks on their front door. Cheever and Reverend Hale were at the door yare to question the two, ‘So will you hand me any poppets that your wife may keep here?’. Cheever has an apprehend warrant with Elizabeth’s name on it for being a witch. She was incriminated by Abigail Williams and Proctor is the only person who kens for what purport. Abigail is doing this because she wants Elizabeth dead so she can have Proctor all to herself. Proctor faces the conflict of either having to tell the public with his love affair to explicate why Abigail would do this, or still keep it a secret. 

One day in the courthouse, ‘Proctor- I have kenned her, sir. I have kenned her. Danforth- You- you a lecher?’. Proctor conclusively came clean about the sin that’s been ruining his life. Albeit, nobody believes him because of how much reverence he has in Salem. He and his wife still get put in confinement and there is nothing he can do.A man’s name may sometimes be their most beneficial possession. From the commencement of the play, he has been endeavoring to redeem himself from the error he has made with Abigail. At the terminus of the play, he was injuctively authorized to prevarication and admit to witchcraft so as to preserve his life. After doing this, the court wanted him to sign a paper saying he admitted. But Proctor verbally expresses, ‘You came to preserve my soul, did you not? Here I’ve got confessed myself; it’s enough!’. Proctor failed to optate to sign the paper whether or not it designated he would survive. If he signed the paper, it might ruin his denomination for the remainder of his life. Proctor goes on to verbalize, ‘Because it’s my denomination! Because I cannot have another in my life!..’. Proctor decides to not give the court the paper together with his signature so he was coerced to hold. Throughout the play, Proctor has been endeavoring to redeem himself. Not just for others except for their own sake. He didn’t admit to witchcraft for anyone, instead, he hanged so he wouldn’t sin. He withal has been endeavoring to redeem himself from Elizabeth from when he slumbered with Abigail. If that never transpired, John’s life possibly would haven’t been in jeopardy. By not sinning he’s more the person he has ever been in his wife’s ocular perceiver’s which makes John a blissful man. 

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