The Crucible Fear Analysis

In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller implies how fear was used to silence the people of Salem and how it was used to persuade people into false testimony. Throughout the play in Salem witch trials, fear was the major source of power to control the enemy. In Salem there were only a couple of things one had to worry about such as punishment from the ruling authoritative, supernatural forces, and shame brought onto their names. In the play there are girls who use fear as their source of weapon to avoid their own fear of being punished. To begin with, in the Crucible it starts off with girls dancing in a forest to evil spirits that is known to be as witchcraft in the community of Salem and that is not permitted and leads to people to being hanged. The ruling authority states, “they will not hang them if they confess” (58), since their fear of death is what will drive them to do was is told to avoid that fate. Now the people who lie to the authority that they never had done witchcraft are the only hurting themselves as they are not truthful to oneself and nor
After the girls had danced in the forest betty was in a bed inert and Mrs. Putnam was in the room with her and asks Parris “how high did she fly, how high”? (75-77). Parris told her that she never flew. Although, he was avoiding the fact that she is could have been going through supernatural forces such as flying and seeing the devil, while inert. In addition to this supernatural force incident, another one that occurred was with Mrs. Putnam’s child who noticed that her child was turning into a “secret child she has become this year, and shrivels like a sucking mouth were pullin’ on her life too” (103-110). Now this led to be a suspicion of a supernatural force on tituba, since she was legibly able to speak with the dead, which was also a sin to conjure up the