The Novel/Play: The Crucible

First off, The Cruicible is really good! I actually really enjoyed reading this book, but I thought that it was a more difficult book to read. The characters were a little confuising which I felt made this book challenging. In some parts of the story a character wouldn't be in the scene, but then they would quickly appear and play an important role in that scene. To me the theme of this story was the best part of the play. That sounds really boring, I know, but the author of this play made his purpose for writing obvious. He wanted to show his readers how crazy everyone was about seeking out regular Americans and trying to proove them guilty of being Russian spys.

*The Crucible* wasn't about Russian spies in America, but about accusing ordinary people of things, that they had no business with. In the end it seemed to me like the wrong people were found guilty. Abigail, the one character I did think was truly guilty of lying to the cosurt, was never penalized for her dishonesty. Instead Proctor and Elizabeth were put in severly punished for doing nothing wrong! But in the end justice was served to Abigail because she never ended up being successful in her life. Mary Warren also was accused of something that she was innocent for. To me, it seemed like she was only trying to please other people so, she was always introuble. She never did what she thought was right. The most obvious example of this was when John Proctor asked her to tell Judge Hathorne that Abigail and the other girls were lying.

One of the characters in this play that showed a strong character development in the end, was Elizabeth. At first she was very bitter towards her husband about being unfaithful with Abigail. By the end of the story she realized how short life is, and she completely forgives him. One thing, that I felt Arthur Miller wanted the reader to learn from this play was that it is never the best decision to just follow the crowd. Abigail and the other girls could make the people of the court room believe that they were under witch's control just because everyone else was. This book had many good lessons, and I enjoyed reading it! =)