Topic > Fear in the characters of Arthur Miller's The Crucible

Within all of us there is a deep and dark fear that is what grips us at the threshold of life. It controls the most important aspects of our lives. This is found in the deepest and darkest depths of our souls. We cage the same creature that sows chaos in our minds and never face it, we close it for fear of overcoming it. If the beast is not dealt with, it begins to twist and change who we are as people and how we interact with others. Even the same decisions we make as a person affect those around us and our loved ones, also suffering the consequences of our actions. Like the melting pot and how each person was transformed into their own monster by greed. John Proctor a simple man who had always done right by him and his family. A good man who works hard and who works hard for the food he provides and the animals he takes care of, then relies on to survive, fallen into his own personal beast within himself that he had caged deep, but when you cage the beast he gets angry and tries to break free and underneath your personality he has to overcome the beast inside trying to escape. John Proctor Sue approached his inner beast that had broken the cage and broken free within which he took control as he lay with Abigail. This inner beast doesn't care about the consequences that will come, good or bad, it only looks at its need to feed on what it has been craving for so long. The action he took sent his life into a spiral caused by this inner beast. The inner fear had won and led him to do his dirty deed which led to the major consequences of Abigail's expulsion and his massive obsession with the prosecutor. Her action gave her personal demon the key to being released and caused in her... middle of paper... the fear that the data she had collected was false and that The city must be put on trial by each accused of such hearings to be hanged for witchcraft. This was the demon of Hales who could not overcome the fear of being the holder of the keys to these people's lives and led the court to try them for false accusations against some young girls. Fear is within all of us as people and it is how we deal with this situation. demon among all of us to live with ourselves among others. This is what gives us power over others: their own fears are used against them. Although when several people share a common fear towards another group and wish to see them demolished by the other, they begin to make false accusations against others, such as the crucible of those who are willing to do anything for their own personal fear to empower them to do what is necessary or what seems right to whom at that moment.- SALEM WITCH TRAILS 1692