masks that the characters wear are not literal masks but metaphors for

concealing a person?s true nature. In Arthur Miller?s play The Crucible,

the main characters struggle to survive through the untimely events that

preceded the Salem Witch Trials. Their personal desires and vendettas drove them to accuse their neighbors of witchcraft. In the play

The Crucible, some of the characters wear masks to save themselves and

ultimately try to fulfill their own personal desires.

Angry at the deaths of her lost seven children, Mrs. Putnam appears to

wear a mask by trying to find a scapegoat for her misfortunes. When Mrs.

Putnam?s daughter Ruth, becomes sick Mrs. Putnam and her husband go to

Reverend Parris to seek an explanation of the recent events. Knowing that

Parris? daughter Betty has the same symptoms as Ruth, Mrs. Putnam

Immediately concludes that it is the work of witchcraft, which has enslaved

her child. As she contemplates her failed seven child deliveries of the

past, she begins to get restless and looks for a scapegoat. Her first target

is revealed when she speaks of sending

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