Crucible

Does power corrupt? In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Miller takes his readers on a journey back to 1692 to revisit the Salem witchcraft trials. He cleverly portrays a small Puritan town and the disappearance of their commitment to each other and the truth. One of the main characters in Miller’s play is Abigail Williams, who is a seventeen year old orphan with an “endless capacity for dissembling”.(p.8) She, along with an evil land …showed first 75 words of 904 total…

…showed last 75 words of 904 total…of how people use power to their advantage. Because of their ill-will Salem is subjected to the evils of corruption disguised in the form of witchcraft. The once good and kind town leaders are accused of being involved in the Devils work, and they, along with their wives, are ridiculed and eventually hanged. Mainly used for financial and emotional gain, power is what causes Salem, Massachusetts to fall into a pool of lies and manipulation.