Logical fallacy
In the literary play, The Cruicible, Authur Miller uses drama to portray the real events of witchcraft. He attempts to show how easily very religios people can be fooled by one another. Logical fallacies are a rhetorical device in which he uses in order to have the effect of showing how believable the characters can be.
A fallacy that is used throughout the Crucible would be Either or Choice. A fallacy where one is made to think they have just one choice. An example of Either or Choice would be in Act 1 where Reverend Parris tells Tituba “You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba!” By saying this Parris is automatically giving Tituba only a limited amount of options and only those options. Instantly stating Tituba to being guilty to witchcraft, where she had been forced to admit guilty or get whipped until she does. Another example of Either or Choice would be in Act 3 where Judge Danforth states, “You will confess yourself or you will hang!” Knowing of the witchcraft occurring in Salem, Judge Danforth immediately gives the accused few options. These options being that the accused either come forward and say they are dealing with witchcraft or be hanged. This is Either or because there can be many more ways to handle this, but hanging is the only option given.
Scare tactics is a fallacy used in the Crucible as well, scare tactics being a fallacy where one is scared into panic to make a decision. This is used in Act 1 where Abigail scares the girls into not speaking a word about what happened in the woods. She does this by saying “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. And you know I can do it...” Abigail tries to scare the girls into lying and they do so seeing what she is capable of doing. Another scare tactic would be in cause of the threat Abigail says and
A fallacy that is used throughout the Crucible would be Either or Choice. A fallacy where one is made to think they have just one choice. An example of Either or Choice would be in Act 1 where Reverend Parris tells Tituba “You will confess yourself or I will take you out and whip you to your death, Tituba!” By saying this Parris is automatically giving Tituba only a limited amount of options and only those options. Instantly stating Tituba to being guilty to witchcraft, where she had been forced to admit guilty or get whipped until she does. Another example of Either or Choice would be in Act 3 where Judge Danforth states, “You will confess yourself or you will hang!” Knowing of the witchcraft occurring in Salem, Judge Danforth immediately gives the accused few options. These options being that the accused either come forward and say they are dealing with witchcraft or be hanged. This is Either or because there can be many more ways to handle this, but hanging is the only option given.
Scare tactics is a fallacy used in the Crucible as well, scare tactics being a fallacy where one is scared into panic to make a decision. This is used in Act 1 where Abigail scares the girls into not speaking a word about what happened in the woods. She does this by saying “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. And you know I can do it...” Abigail tries to scare the girls into lying and they do so seeing what she is capable of doing. Another scare tactic would be in cause of the threat Abigail says and