The Crucible

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The Crucible

In the world today, there are a lot of which-hunts. Not witch-hunts like there are real witches, but there are other things that can be called a with-hunt. For example, the Red Scare, which involved McCarthy. He went around trying to call everyone communists; that is an example of witch-hunt. This play is a great example because many people do this and they don’t know it because it happens everyday. This brings me back to Arthur Millers The Crucible, because everyone would go around and accuse people of being a witch. Abigail, Danforth, and Parris were the main people accusing everyone of being a witch that led to many deaths.

Abigail Williams was the most evil person of all in the play. She was very dissembling because she always lied or tried to accuse people of being a witch and also she envied Elizabeth because she kicked her out of the house for sleeping with John Proctor. She wanted Elizabeth to die so she accused her of being a witch. Elizabeth cared about no one. She loved John but he didn’t love her so she accused him of being a warlock. Elizabeth also stole 31 pounds from her own stepfather Parris and ran away with it. Abigail led to most of the hangings, but she can’t take all the blame because Danforth had a role in it also.

Danforth was an up-tight person that had a major impact on the lives of many people in the play. He was so proud and stubborn when they begged him to release the pole he had previously thrown in jail. He told them that they must pay. Danforth out so many people in jail that the kids that were left behind were made orphans and cattle wondered around. The jails were so packed with innocent people it started to make the town mad. Danforth was so proud of his job and he wanted all the people in the jail to be hanged because he thought he was right. Danforth was a bad person in the play, but Parris was equally as bad.

Parris, a hateful person in his middle forties, thought h...