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The Crucible

 

            Arthur Miller writes this play to warn us of the effects of mass hysteria and the way people conform to the crowd. Throughout this play we are shown that people will do dangerous and unethical things, I am going to write about who I thought was responsible for the prosecution of innocent people.
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             Through this play we are shown that people do dangerous and unexpected things when they follow a crowd. I have come to reason that the three people most to blame for the witch hysteria and the subsequent death of innocent people are Abagail Williams, Ruth, Thomas Putnam and Reverend Parris. Each of these people in some way caused harm to blameless people, and I will explain what these people knowingly or unknowingly did to contribute to the death of the innocent people hanged as witches in Salem village 1862.
             My opinion is that the one person that is most responsible for the Salem witch-hunt was Abagail Williams there are many reasons for this, Abagail had a motive witch was to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor so that once again she could have a relationship with John Proctor" You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor" pg.26. Says Betty Putnam to Abagail when she awakes from her trance.
             I believe another reason why Abagail accused everyone of communicating with the devil and being a witch it was to get attention off the townspeople. Through acting Abagail has led the people of Salem to believe that the devil is loose in their town. There was 19 people to die in Salem during the witch trials, and they all died for one reason greed, it was greed on the part of Abagail because she let innocent people die because Abagail wanted to have another relationship with Proctor. Abagail also set the other girls up to be blamed of witchcraft.
             I believe Thomas Putnam wanted and did blame Proctor because he wanted to get more wood and hand off proctor, and the only way he could do this was by accusing Proctor of being an acquaintance of the devil.


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