The Crucible
Life brings us many trials and tests. If one were to look deeper into these trials and tests, it would be clear that there are always two sides. A good side and a bad side. This is more commonly known as the conflict between good and evil. Arthur Miller paints a picture for us in a play that contains many scenarios of good versus evil, and the characters who generally possess these feelings and intentions. But it must be understood that there are the intentions, the incentives, and then the actions taken out on a person or a group of people. Every character can act on either good or bad intentions. After that, almost every character has mixed feelings of evil or good actions. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, the fight between the center of evil and the center of good is the most important of the themes. Abigail Williams is the nucleus of all evil in the story. She is the character who triggers off a sense of hate. She tempts Proctor into lechery, and commits unlawful acts which all are against the Puritan religion. When she tries to escape punishment for dancing, she deflects the actions, blames them on someone else, and does not care how many lives she ruins. Later when she grows into power and influence, she seems to enjoy
One more fault Proctor has is committing lechery with Abigail. This is evil, because it is against the Puritan rules. Abigail and Proctor are both at fault. Ann Putnam was greatly influenced by Abigail's doings, to the point where she began to follow the same strategy. She then accuses Rebecca Nurse of witchery to escape her own accusers. This deflection is used to keep herself out of trouble. Consequently, Ann Putnam is then considered evil, for using deflection. Marry Warren's intentions at the beginning of the story were to do good and justice. But she sees that when she is in trouble, she also needs someone to deflect the punishment on. This greed results in her saying that Proctor was associated with Satan, and that he possessed her and made her do all of her wrong actions. She says, while pointing at Proctor, "You're the Devil's man!" (Mary Warren 110) Her intentions were first good, but then her actions turned into pure evil, just like Abigail had done. Reverend Hale also is deceived into the traps of Abigail, and accidentally goes along with her plans. He thought he was doing good, but his actions turned out to be evil and wrong. He later realizes that he was being manipulated by Abigail and decides to make up for his actions so he can be good. Hale begins by visiting the accused in jail and telling them to confess to being with the Devil so they may get out alive. This action is wrong against the Puritan code, but his incentives are to do good so the people
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Approximate Word count = 994
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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