The Crucible: Hysteria And Injustice :: Essay on The Crucible

The Crucible Hysteria and InjusticeThesis Statement     The purpose is to educate and display to the reader the hysteria and detriment that chiffonier come from a group of people that thinks its doing the"right" thing for society in relation to The Crucible by Arthur Miller.I. Introduction     The play is base on the real life witch hunts that occurred in the late1600s in Salem, Massachusetts. It shows the peoples fear of what they feltwas the Devils work and shows how a small group of powerful people wronglyaccused and killed many people out of this fear and ignorance. Also importantto the play is how Arthur Miller depicts how one selfish, evil person analogousAbigail Williams can bring others down and make others follow her to commit evilacts. These evil acts affect even the most honest people in the town like Johnand Elizabeth Proctor, and Rebecca Nurse who cannot fight the accusations madeagainst them by those following Abigail . Those following Abigail are consideredto be holy men that are full of honesty and justice, that the play shows thateven those who are thought to be respectable and right, like people ofgovernment or community leaders can bring remnant to innocent people if they aredriven by something wrong.II. Plot     The plot begins with the inciting incident where Rev. Parris finds hisniece Abigail Williams and his daughter Betty along with his slave Tituba doingsome dance in the forest. make up when he finds them, Betty becomes sick andwont talk or open her eyes, about this time other peoples daughters becomesick too. Rumors spread that witch craft is involved in Bettys illness and thedevelopment of the plot begins. Important to the major development of the plotis the fact that in the forest, Abigail and the others were just playing likewitches. But they were following Abigail because she cherished to try to put acurse on a lady named Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail was in l ove with Mrs.Proctors husband, John Proctor, and she wanted to some how get rid of Elizabeth.The job was that as the rumors spread about the devil Abigail went alongwith it and blamed the slave woman Tituba for forcing her to join the devil.The rising action begins when Tituba out of fear of death starts assignment peoplethat she says were with the devil when the devil came to her. This is all a liethough because once Abigail blamed Tituba she did not want to turn the storyaround and guard that she was lying in the first place because one, she was