Examples Of Evil In The Crucible
The Crucible Essay In life, we often come into contact with many different types of people, good and evil. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, he shows us how the good can result and how the one rotten apple can spoil a whole bunch. Abigail Williams is the niece of the town’s preacher, Reverend Parris. She was also a servant for John and Elizabeth Proctor. After an affair with John, she was then kicked out by Elizabeth. Since the affair, Abigail still has feelings for John and she will do anything to get him back. She tries to take down Elizabeth and ends up causing chaos in the whole town of Salem. We see in the play how Elizabeth’s honesty and true desire to uphold her Cchristian values work out for her while Abigail just ends up having a rough
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Elizabeth is a very honest, and it is very evident that she wants to end up in heaven in the end. You can tell that she is honest by her reputation and what other people in the village say about her. For example, Proctor says in line 334, “That woman will never lie, Mr. Danforth” (Miller 510). Proctor also says in line 1151, “In her life, sir, she have never lied. There are them who cannot weep--my wife cannot lie” (Miller 520). Abigail on the other hand, is very two-faced. She will act one way around certain people and a totally different way around a different crowd. When she is in Betty’s room with Reverend Parris she says, “I would never hurt Betty. I lover her dearly” (Miller 462). She seems so sweet and loving in this quote. Later on when the word is out amongst her friends that she was confronted my Parris about the night in the woods, she goes on to tell them, “...Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (Miller 468). Just in these few examples we see how different these two women
Elizabeth is a very honest, and it is very evident that she wants to end up in heaven in the end. You can tell that she is honest by her reputation and what other people in the village say about her. For example, Proctor says in line 334, “That woman will never lie, Mr. Danforth” (Miller 510). Proctor also says in line 1151, “In her life, sir, she have never lied. There are them who cannot weep--my wife cannot lie” (Miller 520). Abigail on the other hand, is very two-faced. She will act one way around certain people and a totally different way around a different crowd. When she is in Betty’s room with Reverend Parris she says, “I would never hurt Betty. I lover her dearly” (Miller 462). She seems so sweet and loving in this quote. Later on when the word is out amongst her friends that she was confronted my Parris about the night in the woods, she goes on to tell them, “...Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” (Miller 468). Just in these few examples we see how different these two women