The Crucible Good versus Evil
The Crucible - Good versus EvilIt was a play with tremendous feelings with many inside twists hidd en in
the archives of the true story. It was a play with emotional feelings;
feelings of anger , hate, and evil, yet feelings of manipulation, good, and
pureness. It was the Crucible. A fireball of guilt, evil, and good compiled
into one magnification. The Crucible: Good versus Evil.
The play contained many scenarios of good versus evil, and the characters
who generally possessed these feelings and intentions. But it must be
understood t hat there were the intentions, the incentives, and then the
actions taken out on a person or a group of people. Every character could
either be placed in the intentions under good or bad intentions. Aft er
that, almost every character has mixed feelings of evil or good actions.
The fight between the centre of evil and the centre of good is the
foremost important of the points. Abigail Williams is the nucleus of all
evil in the story. Sh e is the one who triggers off this sense of hate in
the play. She tempts Proctor into lechery, and comm its unlawful acts which
all are against the Puritan religion. To escape punishment for dancing, she
deflects the actions and blames them on someone else, and does not care how
many lives she ruins. La ter when she grows into power and influence, she
seems to enjoy sending these innocent peopl e their deaths. She takes
pleasure in her lies, and thrives on the attention and power that th ey
bring her. All these are the aspects of being the evil character. Power,
attention, and acts of w rongful doing. Therefore she can be labelled with
being the evil character in the novel. She uses evi l actions disguised as
good by admitting who was with the devil. Of course the people she accuses
a re actually innocent, but she has the ability to manipulate people into
believing that she is doin g good. This again is evil.
The centre of good can be labelled as John Proctor. He is considere d the
‘hero’ of the story, because he fits into the points that make up the hero
of a story. Pr octor is a heroic martyr at the end of the play, when he
falsely admits that he was with Satan all a long. He then refuses to tell
the judge and accuse anyone of being with Satan too like Abigail did. Th
erefore he may be considered a martyr, for dying for a cause of saving the
lives of other innocen t people. John Proctor also tries to defend his
wife, and attempts to make the judge realize how Abiga il is manipulating
him. This is where the conflict arises between good and evil. It is
survival o f the fittest. Who will survive at the end? Abigail Williams or
John Proctor? This is the main battle o f the story.
John Proctor is not a saint in this story either. He does possess s ome
fragments of evil in his soul. His intentions are to do good and...
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