Summary Of The Crucible By Arthur Miller
The play The Crucible is written by Arthur Miller and it is about a small town of
Salem. In this town there are series of trials that occur to hunt down the witches that plague Salem. The universal theme that is expressed in this play on more than one occasion is the theme of lies, make everything worse. This is shown by one occasion very well. When Tituba is accused of being a witch and conspiring with the devil she lies to say she was, and she confesses so that she will live. This really starts the fire that makes everything get much worse.
Tituba lies and confesses she was talking to the devil which makes the town scared of who else may be a witch when she says. “I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir.”(Miller 161) This is a very
Salem. In this town there are series of trials that occur to hunt down the witches that plague Salem. The universal theme that is expressed in this play on more than one occasion is the theme of lies, make everything worse. This is shown by one occasion very well. When Tituba is accused of being a witch and conspiring with the devil she lies to say she was, and she confesses so that she will live. This really starts the fire that makes everything get much worse.
Tituba lies and confesses she was talking to the devil which makes the town scared of who else may be a witch when she says. “I tell him I don’t desire to work for him, sir.”(Miller 161) This is a very