The Role Of Vengeance In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

The salem witch trials took place in 1692, back then people believed almost everything they were told. When a well known reverend discovered his daughter, niece, slave, and a couple of girls from town dancing and singing in the woods, his first instinct was to rush over and confront the girls. When he got there the girls faked fainting to try and avoid getting in trouble, by doing so they made the reverend thing witchcraft was among them. He eminently falsely accused his salve for the girls odd behavior, he also summoned reverend Hale who was an “expert” in the field of witchcraft. By doing this reverend parris sealed many of the villagers fait with know, but only time would tell. What started as an act ended up being a way for reverend parris’s niece to get the man that she wanted by having his wife executed for witchcraft. Once people
It would take alot of greed to accuse someone of witchcraft to have them executed so that their land would be auctioned off. Vengeance played another key role in salem, if it weren’t for vengeance the witch trials would have never happened. In the beginning of the Elizabeth wanted revenge on goodie proctor, because she felt that she was the reason john proctor wouldn’t marry her. Because of this she accused Goodie proctor knowing that would surely get rid of her. I feel that guilt also played a part in this story, because you can tell that some people felt pressured by other to either accuse people or to lie. A prime example of this is when Marry Warren confessed to lying and making up the whole witch thing, but after elizabeth gave her a few dirty looks you could clearly tell that marry was afraid of losing her friend and potenttionally being the next too be accused by elizabeth. In the end Marry ends up lying agin by says john proctor was the devil in a mans skin, she went as far as saying he was trying to get her to sign her soul to