“My plays are always involved with society, but I’m writing about people, too, and it’s clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don’t really change that much.”(Huntington Theatre Company) The quote is from Arthur Miller himself and he could not be any more right when he says his plays are understood by the audience. The Crucible is a play that is relatable at many different time periods and even today. It has characters that portray people in every era and represent things like the person who never gives up and the liar. I think that the play, in many aspects, has a very strong relationship to the Nazi reign and World …show more content…
Abigail Williams is a compulsive liar, her biggest lie being, “Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all” (Miller 1137). She believes that she is God’s Finger, and will do anything no matter what the cost to save herself from being punished. I think that Abigail is most relatable to Adolf Hitler himself. Both he and Abigail believe that they were doing God's work. Like Abigail, Hitler doesn’t matter what the cost he just wants to control Germany. Near the end of the play we find out that Abigail and Mercy ran away, which is the same as when Hitler fled Germany after he knew that he had been defeated. I think that Mercy, Susanna, Betty, and the other girls represent Hitler’s followers. The girls follow Abigail for many reasons, the main one being fear. The girls do what Abigail says out of fear of what will happen if they do not. This is exactly how Hitler gained so many …show more content…
I think the Jews as a whole can be represented by Martha Corey, Elizabeth Proctor, and Rebecca Nurse. All of the women had done nothing to deserve being condemned as a witch and eventually being hung. Reverend Hale at the end of the play even admits they are innocent, “It is a lie! They are innocent”(Miller 1224). The Jews were just as innocent, but were still murdered because of their religion. Not only were Jews killed during World War Two but the disabled were also sent to concentration, and death camps. Sarah Good best represents this group of people, because when she was condemned as a witch no one cared since she was crazy. Unfortunately, the same goes for the disabled being killed in the camps. Some of the Jews did not go down without a fight which represents Giles Corey, who in the face of death said only two words, “More Weight”(Miller 1227). One example of rebellion being the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Germans began going through the ghettos for the last time and gathering the citizens to be sent to concentration camps, or killed. In this ghetto a group, of both men and women, fought the Germans for a month until they were