Crucible

Crucible The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic witch trails. The entire community is in pandemonium yet certain characters are also fighting internal conflicts of their own. Miller uses three characters that manifest this internal battle ever so clearly. Such as Mary Warren whose whole personality turns upside down, John Proctor who contemplates between the importance of his family and his own name, and Reverend Hale who battles with himself, weather to carry out his job requirements or to do what he knows is right. Mary Warren is a girl who is forced with this inner turmoil throughout this play. At the outset of the play she is perceived to be a very shy girl who will never speak her mind, as shown when Proctor sends her home and she responds with “I’m just going home” (21). As the play continues and as she is influenced by Abigail, Mary begins to break this self induced mold and does what she wants. Mary Warren, along with many other girls gets caught up in a hype of getting all the attention and exercising power via initiating adamantly continuing these “witch crucible, mary, proctor, john, people, hale, yet, right, play, own, out, name, make, internal, faced, witch, warren, life, inner, good, elizabeth, decision, conflict, confess, abigail, wrong, turmoil, reverend, must, lie, himself, god, feels, die, decides, danforth, characters