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Crucible Essay Essay Research Paper In Arthur

Crucible Essay Essay, Research Paper


In Arthur Miller?s The Crucible, there is one character who, because of her


selfish and evil ways, causes the destruction of many people in the town of


Salem. This character is Abigail Williams. In the play, jealousy, and self-


interest are the two characteristics that are seen constantly throughout the


play. These characteristics pertain particularly to Abigail, and give a graphic


description of her life, and how she deals with things in it. Throughout the


play she gets worse and worse each time something major happens.


After her affair and failure with voodoo, she was overcome by love


and jealousy, and she was willing to do anything to get John back to her own


self. Since she was overcome, she had no concern with morals, and starts to


sin heavily by starting the witch trials, which causes the deaths of many


people in the town. Abigail doesn?t want anyone to find out that she was in


the forest so she harshly threatens Betty Paris and Mary Warren not to say


anything. ?Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the


other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I


will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you… And you know I can do


it… I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down.?


She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and her


whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings of


love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these


things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living


became to get back John. This shows that when a person is given something,


which they enjoy, and even love, and they are denied it, they feel distraught


and they will many times do almost anything to get it back.


She was very desperate and she felt willing to do anything to get back


John for herself. She had been brought up to believe that magic worked, so


she turned to Tituba and her voodoo. Abigail begged her for her help in that


matter, This is shown when Tituba says, ?You beg me to conjure! She beg


me to make charm-? Abigail was so desperate to get back John that she even


drank chicken?s blood to get him back. She drank this blood charm so


Elizabeth would die. Abigail?s progression of evilness and her looking for


help from witchcraft shows that love and jealousy in large quantities can


cause a person to go to what they hate most for help. Abigail goes from her


goodness with internal turmoil, to what she was brought up in Salem to fear,


and despise: witchcraft.


Af

ter some thought Abigail realizes that she can use witchcraft to get


back John, though not in the way that she had thought before. She believes


that the only reason that John is not giving in to her is because of Elizabeth.


She realizes that the people of the town are so afraid of the devil, she can use


that fear to discredit, and eventually get rid of Elizabeth, thereby getting


John for herself. She also realizes that if she right away accuses Elizabeth,


the people would not believe her because Elizabeth is too pious. She decides


that if she starts with evil people, and works her way up to the more pious


ones to, finally, Elizabeth she will be believed. This chain of reasoning


causes the deaths of many of the townspeople in Salem. Many people in the


town of Salem think Abigail?s doing the right thing by accusing all these


people. They don?t know of Abigail?s scheme and encourages that these


witches be given their due punishment. Reverend Hale has a conflict with


Abigail?s doings but not for the same reason as John Proctor. Hale knows


that Abigail is purging and he really tries to prevent innocent lives being


wasted. John wants to stop Abigail so he can save his wife. Hale wants to


save innocent lives from being unreasonably killed. Hale is a great man who


tries to save lives but John was the opposite and is selfish by just caring


about his wife?s life. At the end of the play, however, John realizes his


selfishness and dies while saving his honesty.


Abigail?s actions show that once a person begins to do evil things, and


sins, it becomes almost second nature, and they don?t really mind it so


much. In time they even don?t care at all, and they may even continue to do


sins just for the fun of it. This is shown when Abigail continues to sin, and


continues the witch trials even after she realizes that the plan she hatched to


kill Elizabeth didn?t work, and she had not planned to have her love, John,


killed.


From Abigail?s actions we learn that a person shouldn?t base their


whole life on one love or a feeling of jealousy. If they do they can change


their whole life for the far worse. For example, Abigail started to become a


complete villain and the whole course of everyone?s life in Salem was


changed for the worse or terminated all together because of her selfishness.


We should all learn to not hook onto any one individual because there are


many other fish in the sea. Besides the fact that it can ruin your life on a


personal level it can ruin many of the people that you deal with on a


everyday basis.


THE CRUCIBLE


BY ARTHUR MILLER

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