Topic > Elements of Good and Evil in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

The play, The Crucible, is a fireball of guilt, evil, and good rolled into one. It is a play full of extraordinary feelings, with many twists hidden in the archives of the true story. It is a play with emotional feelings; feelings of anger, hatred and evil, but also feelings of goodness and purity. Undeniably, The Crucible is a play that illustrates good versus evil. The main characters, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Ann Putnam and Marry Warren all contain elements of good and evil within them. The play contained many scenarios of good versus evil and the characters who generally possessed these feelings and intentions. But you have to understand that there were intentions, incentives, and then actions taken on a person or group of people. Each character could be placed under good or bad intentions. After that, almost every character has mixed feelings of good or bad 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 evil in the story. She is the one who triggers this sense of hatred in the play. He tempts Proctor to lust and commits illegal acts which are all against the Puritan religion. To escape punishment for dancing, she deflects actions and blames someone else, and she doesn't care how many lives she ruins. Later, as she gains power and influence, she seems to enjoy sending these innocent people to their deaths. She takes pleasure in her lies and benefits from the attention and power they bring her. All these are aspects of evil character, power, attention and wrongdoing. So you can... middle of paper... n explain why people are executed. In conclusion, there is a substantial difference between the forces of good and evil in the work. The forces of good have always tried to do what was best for everyone, even if it meant breaking some Puritan laws. The evil group did whatever was best for themselves. They were greedy and had no consideration for others. You always hope that good will prevail over the forces of evil, but that wasn't supposed to happen in The Crucible. In the end, Abigail had succeeded in her mistake and killed Proctor. Once again evil has emerged victorious… Pay attention to the sentence fragments. Each sentence must have a subject and a verb. Your essay would have been more effective if you had used quotation marks to support your ideas. Quotes from the work would prove your ideas.