Examples Of Fire In The Crucible

Fire is most commonly associated with destruction, when fire is out if control that is when the problem really starts to show. When heat is introduced to the flask in the crucible, it is most likely to break, but if you put too much heat on the flask, the flask will break. Introducing more events/ problems to the situation is like a metaphor for turning up the heat. One example of “turning up the heat” is where the whole problem start, which is when Abigail is talking to her uncle Parris and denying that her and Parris’s daughter, Betty, practiced witch craft. “You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife you! You drank blood to kill Goody Proctor” (p.g 1034). This part of the play represent beginning of the fire. At this point the fire has