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  • Essay / Elements of Good and Evil in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

    The play The Crucible is a fireball of guilt, evil and good compiled into one magnification. It's a play of tremendous emotion, with many twists and turns hidden in the archives of the true story. It’s a piece with emotional feelings; feelings of anger, hatred and evil, but also feelings of goodness and purity. Undeniably, The Crucible is a play depicting good versus evil. The main characters, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Ann Putnam, and Marry Warren all contain elements of good and evil. The play contained many good versus evil scenarios, as well as the characters who usually possessed these feelings and intentions. But we must understand that there were the intentions, the incitements, then the actions carried out against a person or a group of people. Each character can be placed in intentions under good or bad intentions. After that, almost every character has mixed feelings of bad or good deeds. The struggle between the center of evil and the center of good is the most important point. Abigail Williams is the core of all the evils in the story. She is the one who triggers this feeling of hatred in the room. She incites Proctor to lust and commits illegal acts that are all against the Puritan religion. To escape punishment for dancing, she deflects her actions and blames them on someone else, not caring how many lives she ruins. Later, when she gains power and influence, she seems to enjoy sending these innocent people to their deaths. She takes pleasure in his lies and thrives on the attention and power they bring her. All of these are evil character, power, attention, and wrongdoing. Therefore, it can...... middle of paper ......n why people are executed. In conclusion, there is a substantial difference between the forces of good and evil in the play. The forces of good have always tried to do what's best for everyone, even if it meant breaking some puritanical laws. The evil group did what was best for themselves. They were greedy and had no consideration for others. We always hope that good will prevail over the forces of evil, but that wasn't the case in The Crucible. In the end, Abigail had succeeded in her wrongdoing and killed Proctor. Once again, evil has emerged victorious... Be careful with sentence fragments. Each sentence must have a subject and a verb. Your article could have been stronger if you had used quotes to support your ideas. Quotes from the play would have proven your ideas..