Personal Responsibility In The Crucible

To take personal responsibility means that you are recognizing that you made a mistake and must do your best to fix it. When people say to take responsibility, they mean they want you to acknowledge the fact that a mistake was made on your part. However, to take personal responsibility is to not only acknowledge the problem, but also finding viable solutions to the problem at hand. This ties in with The Crucible very well because many people in the story are willing to acknowledge the problem but not too many are willing to do something about it, some are even willing to make the problem worse as long as it guarantees their safety. This is a vital problem with the way we as humans behave, we mostly only act in our best interests. For example,