The crucible

     In The Crucible , the characters who could not deal with their flaws became either victims or perpetrators of justice. This is basically best illustrated by Mary Warren, Judge Danforth and John Proctor , who all exhibit some type of weakness.

  In the play the Crucible , the author Arthur Miller wrote about the Salam witchcraft. He wrote about a group of girls who practiced witchcraft and how the girls denied it by blaming innocent people. Arthur Miller wrote about proctor's shame for cheating on his wife. In this play the author uses tone, metaphor and epiphany to develop his perspective , that sin brings shame and desperation removes pride. He uses the tone when Proctor calls Abigail a "whore" because the audience can feel the anger that Proctor has towards her. Proctor begins to feel ashamed for lusting because he knows if he knew Abigail, his wife would not be in jail. The audience can also feel Proctor's rage when he says, "she thinks to dance with me on my wife's grave'' Proctor knows that Abigail is trying to get rid of Elizabeth , Proctor's wife so she can be with him. So now he is starting to feel regret and shame because he knows he made a huge mistake. At this point in this play the author presents how proctor's sin brought him shame and his desperation for saving his wife removed his pride.

Mary Warren's flaws lead to the imprisonment of john and elizabeth proctor as well as john's execution. early in the play, she is described as "a subservient, naive, lonely girl. these characteristics allow her to become abigail's pawn. it is clear that mary is unaware of abigail's plans to accuse elizabeth of witchcraft using a doll mary made in the court. she weakens when elizabeth is arrested based on this evidence even though she knows the doll could not have been used for witchcraft. when john proctor takes her to the court to save his wife, she maintains her allegiance to abigail and the other girls. during the interrogate in the court, mary exclaims, you're the devil's man" I'll not hang with you, he come to me by night and every day to sign" when the situation becomes to extreme for mary, she leaves any notion of telling the truth and falsely accuses john proctor of witchcraft. she allows herself to be used by the other girls and is too afraid to present the truth to the court. mary warren gives in to her fears and fails to save the innocent people she could have protected due to her weak character. this flaw contributes to the acts of injustice against john proctor, who is imprisoned , tortured and eventually hanged. Proctor is becoming desperate to let the court know that abigail lied about accusing Elizabeth for practicing witchcraft. he is so desperate to save his wife that he is willing to let the court know of his lust with abigail.

the author uses metaphor in the quote" where my beasts are bedded" so his audience knows that proctor was with abigail in a sexual way. as proctor says these remarks, he feels ashamed for being with a woman that was not his wife. proctor was desperate to save his wife's life, so he knew he had to come clean and tell everyone why abigail would call elizabeth a witch. miller uses the word bedded in this quote to refer to something that only happens in bed.

miller uses epiphanity to show proctor's shame. for example, when proctor says, "A man may think god sleeps