Examples Of Fear In The Crucible

This excerpt from "The Crucible", written by Arthur Miller demonstrates how fear can overwhelm people in different ways and shows how strong an individual must be to deal with this fear. Although people in this society may appear strong and claim that they oppose the devil, everyone is weakened by human instincts which forces some people to yield to the devil's commands. "The boot of Lucifer" haunts everyone in the court room and forces even the strongest of men to face their ignorance. This scene is particularly powerful because it describes how Proctor is completely overwhelmed with fear and frustration with the court to a point where he "laughs insanely". Proctor has reached a point of insanity and can no longer bear the weight of the burden he brought

My theme was fear. Fear is constantly involved with everyone everyday.It can be from having a fear of heights or fear of failing a test. Fear impacts in society because everyone fears of something.For example, one of the biggest fears in this world currently is the presidency of Donald Trump. Many people of the United States especially immigrants fear that Donald Trump isn’t going to treat them fairly. The immigrants show how scared they are and how their lives are about to change because of Donald Trump. They show their fears throughout social media, the news, and even in public protest. They fear of the outcome of Donald Trump. Fear has contributed in this world through many occasions and people have learned how to deal with it.

We all have fear. Fear is on display everywhere in today’s world, often through television, and then spread to our family and friends. Fear is a part of our lives, and something we can only hope to control. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, a group of girls put lives in danger, by accusing people of witchcraft. This causes a fervor of fear in the town, and we watch it spread throughout the play. In The Crucible, fear enables dishonestly in the town, people to be accused, and lives to be lost.

It is always important to know about events in history so that the events will not be repeated. The texts The Crucible, “Why I Wrote The Crucible,” and “Vigilante ‘Vampire-hunters’” tells about how fear has an effect on society from the Salem witch hunts to McCarthyism to modern-day. The play, The Crucible, shows how society reacts to fear when claims about witchcraft are circulated through the village, and the article “Why I Wrote The Crucible” shows how fear of communism makes society paranoid of each other. The article “Vigilante ‘Vampire-hunters’” is an example of a modern-day witch hunt, except the article deals with vampires rather than witchcraft or communists. As it is seen in all three text, society has dealt with fear in the same despairing manner over the years besides learning from mistakes in the past. The development of society’s response to fear over the years illustrates that people have not learned from mistakes made by responses in the past.

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller has many emotions in it some that affect the mood more than others three of these are fear, hysteria, and revenge. There three emotions are the main reason of why people were being called out as witches in Salem. This happened because fear, hysteria, and revenge took hold of someone’s emotions and made them do terrible things to get what they wanted whether that was killing someone of trying to get a man to marry them.

Fear is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.” This example of fear is shown exclusively in the Crucible by Arthur Miller from the first part to the last page of the playwright. Arthur Miller uses fear in the Crucible to describe how the H.U.A.C (House Committee on Un-American Activities) which was established in the late 1930s, unjustly searched for communist in the 1950s.

So far throughout The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, many are being accused and many are the accusers. In Salem there is a major mystery of who is practicing witchcraft and people are naming off there enemies, without knowing if they are innocent or guilty. The accusers are powered by the emotions of envy, fear, and bitterness. People like Abigail Williams, Mary Warren, and Ann Putnam have hidden agendas and want there enemies to hang.

In the play, The Crucible [New York: Penguin Group. 2003] by Arthur Miller, the mass hysteria of the witch trials begins with a game in the woods and quickly grows to unbelievable proportion in an atmosphere of ignorance and superstition. In this small, closed community, the hysteria is fed by hidden personal motives including self-preservation, fear, jealousy, envy, and revenge which when unchecked and unquestioned, bring tragic consequences.

In The Crucible, Arthur Miller examines the topic of fear and how it is used to silence the “problem” and force others into false evidence. In this play, along with the real Salem Witch Trials, fear was a weapon used by people in power to control their “enemies”. The characters are completely ruled by fear and it was mainly caused by the tough punishments given to those who disobeyed puritan morals which causes the characters to quickly deny and accuse others of witchcraft to save themselves, creating unnecessary deaths of the innocent.

Facing the Challenges of the Real World In the book, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, there are many themes that are seen in the book. One theme that is seen in the book is fear. Fear plays a very big role in the book as well as in the real world. In the real world, fear plays a very big role in society.

By the time it was over, 19 people (and two dogs) had been convicted and hanged for witchcraft, one elderly man was pressed to death by stones, and 150 prisoners were awaiting trial. Five more people died in prison. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” In the Crucible many characters have to decide whether they should confess to dealing with the devil and giving away their good name or be hanged for something they didn’t do. To avoid punishment, several young girls caught conjuring spirits in the woods blame a slave woman for corrupting them. These girls also accuse other women in Salem of practicing witchcraft. With no one knowing who is and isn't a witch, despite no

Can fear escalate to disaster? The Crucible written by Arthur Miller was originally written to protest the Red Scare. A time where communists spies became a national fear in the US and even ruined hundreds of lives due to suspicion. Though The Crucible takes place even before the United States was established, the Salem Witch Trials and the Red Scare had both been motivated by one thing in common which is fear taken too far. One of the main characters within the play is Abigail Williams who is a teenage girl around the age of “seventeen… A strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling” (Miller Act one lines 29-30). Her power is abused which is known to the reader and becomes a weapon for her true intent that drives the plot. Abigail’s most important value is her obsession to be together with Proctor and even confesses to him “John- I am waiting for you every night” (Miller Act one line 415). Despite her undying affection, Proctor is a married to Elizabeth and Abigail’s feelings becomes one sided. Due to this, her motivations through the play is influenced by the abuse of her position in the role of playing God. She uses this power to mainly as vengeance to rid of Proctor’s wife, “she (to Proctor now) testify it were the wife’s familiar spirit” (Miller Act Three, lines 807-808). The obvious reason reveals key factors such as witches becoming a sensitive topic and the fact that the court evidence relies on her witnessing spirits. Her crying out the devil on Elizabeth will automatically send her to jail and leave Proctor alone for herself. Abigail’s motivation is hidden away from the court just like her trying to hide the fact that she has had an affair with John Proctor, “Mr. Danforth, he is lying!” (Miller Act three, line 837). She denies Proctor’s accusation because her name because her name within the town will no longer be a person blessed by God. She will reveal her true self who is skillfully manipulative that especially evident when she comments openly to Proctor about Elizabeth that “she is a cold, sniveling woman” and that Proctor “[he bends] to her!” (Miller Act Two lines 461-482). Of course, Abigail doesn’t recognize this nature of herself and doesn’t change the

Abigail throughout this whole play has always been jealous of Elizabeth Proctor because she is in love with her husband, his name is John Proctor. Abigail wants Elizabeth to die so that she can have John all to

According to Bertrand Russell, “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” This shows that fear is a large factor in our lives, if we realize it or not. Fear is caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous and causes an unpleasant feeling. Due to this, the characters in The Crucible took extreme measures to restore the peace in their community. Over the course of my research and connection to The Crucible, I specifically chose to examine the following research question: To what extent does fear affect one’s life, as it did in the lives’ of the characters in The Crucible?

Five years ago, citizens of Raqqa City, Syria spent their days working, cooking, cleaning, and performing other daily duties of life. Yesterday, October 16th, 2017, they spent their day fighting and murdering islamic terrorists who have been attempting to gain control of their beloved city for months. How do normal everyday people go from cleaning dishes to killing terrorists? It's not easy to say, but Arthur Miller does a pretty bang-up job conveying a similar situation in his play The Crucible, as regular puritan folk in a small Massachusetts town go from constantly praying hymns too hanging over nineteen people in just a few months. Miller uses Deputy Danforth and two teenage girls in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to express the theme that when someone is plagued with fear, that person will act out in alarming and abnormal way polar to their usual behavior.