Examples Of Truth In The Crucible

The exploration of human experience in The Crucible invites individuals to reconsider their understanding of truth. The Crucible written in 1953 by Arthur Miller deals with the collective human experience of truth, through mass hysteria in the village. The idea of truth is strongly connected to the characters Abigail and Danforth, as both use it to gain authority and status. As the play unfolds, we see that the truth disappears through the hysteria in the village.

Abigail is the antagonist of the play, as she possesses qualities such as greed, skilled lair, vindictive, and manipulative. This young woman causes deception everywhere she goes, causing people to be viciously harmed. She displays a sinister understanding of how to dominate and

Abigail moves the focus away from herself by accusing others of witchcraft, which causes mass hysteria in the village. Visual Imagery is used in the line “I want to open myself! I want the light of God”. This represents how Abigail, seizes the opportunity presented by Tituba's confession as a possible escape. In accordance with Salem's theology, she "confesses" to having relations with the Devil, which absolves her of all blame. She goes on to accuse others of being witches as the following stage in absolving herself of sin, putting the responsibility for their guilt onto others. A pattern of frantic, self-serving allegations emerges as a result of the other girls imitating Abigail's success, which leads to the start of the witch hunts. The actions of Abigail throughout the

He has a calm confidence in his capacity to render impartial judgements as he travels to Salem to oversee the witches' trials. He still thinks he is the best judge, despite the trial's pandemonium. Danforth reflects his time, a time when many people believed in witches and witchcraft. However, not everyone in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 was as susceptible to the girls' "pretence" as Danforth is. Danforth becomes bound by his own ego after he starts to think the girls, led by Abigail, are actually possessed and is unable to recognise their deception in the face of overwhelming evidence. He simply is unable to retract his denial that he was misled. In the play, Danforth stands in for the bad of blind conviction; he rejects the truth because it would make him look foolish. The rhetorical question in the line “Mr. Proctor, you have been notified, have you not?” this suggests that majority of Salem villagers understand that the witch trials were a fraud. Parris claims that he has received threats and that Abigail has fled. Danforth, however, will not agree to this arrangement. He still tries to threaten John while maintaining that he did the right thing out of self-preservation. Danforth lies to himself and to the people of Salem to uphold is reputation and status, as well as being untruthful to his role as a judge. Danforth acts like the evidence isn’t overwhelming and decides to lie to everybody. This