Abigail's Main Message Of The Crucible

In the play the Crucible, Arthur Miller, really connected with his past experiences and a horrible historic event. The main message he conveyed, was how people can get caught in or influenced by a single thing. Some people in the play lied, did a selfish act, or got tricked into the terrible “witchcraft” happening in Salem. For many of the people, it was the terror of being accused of being a witch, so they made up lies. Another way was selfishness or a form of lust, a superb example of this is, when Abigail threatens the girls to not tell anyone about her drinking the blood of Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail said to betty and Mary Warren,”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 some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” Abigail also believes that John still “loves” her, she …show more content…
The government not letting the refugees in, is similar to the bias assumptions of the judges in the crucible, which Miller lived through and clearly didn’t support. The refugees may be trying to seek out a safe place in America for their families, make money just to feed their family, and to live the American dream. Arthur Miller would also not like the limiting of Muslims in the country. In the passage “Why I Wrote the Crucible”, Arthur says, “I was motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set in among many liberals.” Arthur is a liberal and he wrote The Crucible as an act against the government, so taking that into consideration, he doesn’t support the government. That is not the only reason that Arthur Miller would be against not letting Muslims in. It is another bias assumption, just like in The Crucible. A great majority of Muslims are coming to America to do