Should people always face their fears? What is The Crucible Aming to tell the audiences today?
The Crucible by Arthur Miller written in 1953 has a lot of Hysteria and fear in it. Abigail and the other girls were saying that some individuals are involved in witchcraft. The Crucible is aiming to tell the audiences that people should be more careful when it comes to hysteria and how there can be awful things that can happen when we do get caught up in hysteria.
A Crucible is a severe test or trial, which is exactly what happens in the Crucible. It makes sense that the play is called the Crucible because many of the characters are tested with regards to their faith and put on trial for witchcraft. A quote from the book “ I would to god she were… There be fourteen people in the trial now, she says… And they’ll be on tried, and the court have the power to hang them too” (Elizabeth). “ Ah they’d never hang” (Proctor)( Miller 50) This just shows that if the people do not confess they will have to go to court and they will decide if they will hang them or if …show more content…
People should always face their fears. When people are feeling Hysteria they tend to lose their temper and they don’t know what they are doing. A quote from the book “ I never had no wife that be so taken with books and I thought to find the cause of it, but it were no witch I blamed her for… I have broke charity with the women, I have broke charity with her. He covers his face, ashamed”(Miller 79, 80). This is basically saying that Giles Corey has got caught up in the hysteria of the witch trials. This has somewhat to do with fear, but mostly with hysteria. Fear because he was scared of his wife doing something to him because she would read books at night and he would not be able to do his prayer because she was reading books when she is done reading books then he could finally do his
The Crucible by Arthur Miller written in 1953 has a lot of Hysteria and fear in it. Abigail and the other girls were saying that some individuals are involved in witchcraft. The Crucible is aiming to tell the audiences that people should be more careful when it comes to hysteria and how there can be awful things that can happen when we do get caught up in hysteria.
A Crucible is a severe test or trial, which is exactly what happens in the Crucible. It makes sense that the play is called the Crucible because many of the characters are tested with regards to their faith and put on trial for witchcraft. A quote from the book “ I would to god she were… There be fourteen people in the trial now, she says… And they’ll be on tried, and the court have the power to hang them too” (Elizabeth). “ Ah they’d never hang” (Proctor)( Miller 50) This just shows that if the people do not confess they will have to go to court and they will decide if they will hang them or if …show more content…
People should always face their fears. When people are feeling Hysteria they tend to lose their temper and they don’t know what they are doing. A quote from the book “ I never had no wife that be so taken with books and I thought to find the cause of it, but it were no witch I blamed her for… I have broke charity with the women, I have broke charity with her. He covers his face, ashamed”(Miller 79, 80). This is basically saying that Giles Corey has got caught up in the hysteria of the witch trials. This has somewhat to do with fear, but mostly with hysteria. Fear because he was scared of his wife doing something to him because she would read books at night and he would not be able to do his prayer because she was reading books when she is done reading books then he could finally do his