How Is Fear Shown In The Crucible

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In the book/play The Crucible there are many part where fear is shown in act I fear is shown when Abigail speaks to the girl and tell them what they should say. “Abigail: Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. 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! She goes to Betty and roughly sits her up. Now, you - sit …show more content…
PROCTOR: I am only wondering how I may prove what she [Abigail] told me, Elizabeth. If the girl’s a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she’s fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone—I have no proof for it. ELIZABETH: You were alone with her? PROCTOR, stubbornly: For a moment alone, aye. ELIZABETH: Why, then, it is not as you told me. PROCTOR, his anger rising: For a moment, I say. The others come in soon after. ELIZABETH, quietly—she has suddenly lost all faith in him: Do as you wish, then. (She starts to turn.) PROCTOR: Woman. (She turns to him.) I'll not have your suspicion any more. ELIZABETH, a little loftily: I have no— PROCTOR: I'll not have it! ELIZABETH: Then let you not earn it. Elizabeth can’t trust Proctor because of what he did to her in the past with Abigail. Even though she would like to trust she can’t. She can't because it makes her wonder things. This quote connects with fear because Elizabeth doesn't like when Proctor is alone with Abigail she doesn't trust him with her. She fear that he would do what he did to her in the …show more content…
One calls up witnesses to prove his innocence. But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature, an invisible crime, is it not? Therefore, who may possibly be witness to it? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victims—and they do testify, the children certainly do testify. As for the witches, none will deny that we are most eager for all their confessions. Therefore, what is left for a lawyer to bring out? I think I have made my point. Have I not?" (Danforth, Act 3) This quote is mostly about how people might not be saying the truth when they testify they might just be lying. This connects to the theme fear because people are lie because they are scared of out is going to happen to them.
In act III Giles tells on his wife saying she's a witch when she really isn’t."I never had no wife that be so taken with books, and I thought to find the cause of it, d’y’see, but it were no witch I blamed her for. He is openly weeping. I have broke charity with the woman, I have broke charity with her. He covers his face, ashamed. (Giles, Act 3,) In this quote Giles throws his wife under the bus by saying he sees her reading books.This connect to my theme because he was so scared of what was going on with the witchcraft trial he said his wife was