Analysis of Act One of The Crucible
Analysis of Act One of "The Crucible"
The chaos of the witch trials and the accusations made were out of evil thoughts and intentions, which is ironic because they said that the so-called “witches” were evil, but were the girls not the one’s accusing the truly evil people? The girls were curious about witchcraft so they preformed what was considered evil acts by their society. They decided that instead of taking responsibility for their actions and getting reprimanded for their bad deeds, they made an evil and selfish choice to cover up what they had done by accusing innocent people of making them do the work of the devil.
The girl made these accusations for many reasons, but one is their own small believe in witchcraft. They were part of a very strict society that did not allow them to have much freedom. Their lives were pretty much planned for them. They had to be Protestant so that rules out their freedom of religion, they had to wear black and white garments (no colors) so there goes their freedom of expression, they not aloud to speak out against males, people of higher authority, or adults; these were a few of their restrictions. The way that they are brought up in this society can lead the reader to believe that this is cause for their actions, but certainly not an accuse. There is no excuse for killing innocent people for fun, and that is exactly what they did. They treated this as a game, and life is not game; life is precious.
Another reason that the girls decided to make the accusations was out of boredom. Where they have grown up they go day after day doing the same old thing. They wear the same color and style clothing everyday, they have only a certain amount of things that the can cook, so there is no choice on what you wanted to eat, and there was not very much to do there especially at night because there was no electricity. So, they decided to learn a little bit more about witchcraft because they had heard of the other colonies that were involved in it. They decided it would be fun and interesting, and definitely not boring to get them involved in witchcraft. Hopefully they did not...