The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Safiatou Bonkoungou

Conflict

In the story The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, it explains a play that involves historical events like witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. This drama is an example of the unjust events that happened, due to the terrible lies that some young girls made up, who were supposedly witchcraft. This was a hard situation for the entire town because of the accusation of witchcraft toward innocent people. In The Crucible, Miller shows us several examples of these conflicts were ,man vs. society, man vs. man, and man vs. self-internal. Although the story we later see how the central conflict feed into the other the conflicts.The girls' first accusations start the frenzy that comes, Miller lets us see how peer pressure can lead people into taking part in actions which they know are wrong. "Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!" (Page 20) Abigail pressures the other girls into doing only what they are told to do. Even though they wanted to get out of it and just tell the truth. In a community like this, reactions to accusations are quickly blamed for and looked down upon.Durning the time all this was happening it the Abigail against the girls. As the play continue we see that the central conflict usually beginning within the character them self ,which is self v man. As Abigail was dealing with her insecurities and trying to get her lover back she pulled in the rest of the girls , making her problems everybody else. At