Examples Of Supremacy In The Crucible

Playwright or Pure Supremacy? Is the threat of hysteria and male supremacy enough to convince Salem’s judges of Witchcraft? Everyone hears about hysteria causing lack of common sense and poor judgement. But no one thought the same would apply to male supremacy. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, implies that women of the 1600s created an inferior archetype, but some young women may prove this statement to be false, disproving Arthur Miller. These inferior positions- of Mary Warren, Abigail Williams, and Tituba- generate the message Miller is trying to convey about women throughout the play, which is that women are subsequently inferior to men. The Crucible builds off the events that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Hysteria became prominent due to incompetence of attention-seeking teenagers, which lead to the accusation of witches circulating around Puritan Salem. The whole ordeal began when Reverend Parris discovered his daughter, niece, and other

Even though in that classical society, females are seen as subordinate, Abigail maneuvers her way around that to accomplish what she needs. She began the scapegoating of Tituba, “She made me do it! She made Betty do it!” (Miller 40). Throughout the play, Abigail begins to acquire more and more power due to the increasing number of victims of untruthful accusations of witchcraft and dealing with the devil thrusted upon them. Later in the play, she begins accusing people she doesn’t like in Salem of witchcraft, “I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!” (Miller 45) Abigail eventually goes power-crazy, admits she sinned by beguiling the judges and accusing all the incident and tries to illustrate her repent but, the accused are still hung for