The Crucible

The Crucible has a hard hitting "moral of the story". What is it? Do you think this moral is still applicable to today's world?

The crucible is set in a small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, and is based on a real story of the Salem witch trials. The book is a tragic story about 12 girls accusing innocent towns people of witchcraft in order to get attention. The whole town goes insane, and their moral gets distorted.

The moral of The Crucible , is that the world is not just "black and white". The world and its people are far more complicated than ever. All sins aren't created equally, and people lie in order to please themselves. The Crucible clearly reflects this through the main character Abigail, and the other 11 girls. Since the girls were dancing in the woods, they knew they would be punished badly. The girls started to accuse other towns people in order to receive less painful punishments. This had changed the strict Puritans 180 degrees. The towns people believed in witchcraft, and had their moral distorted. When a mass of people believe in something, other people tend to believe that the fact isn't false. This is how humans unconsciously think. If a majority of people believe in something, you would want to believe in it because you don't want to be left out. I think this could apply to the people of Salem. Through the story, we find that morality is thrown into chaos, and that telling the 'truth' becomes difficult. The moral of the story is clear; the world isn't perfect.

The moral of The Crucible definitely applies to today's world. Our world is full or war, discrimination, crimes, and lies. More importantly, all sins in the world aren't made equally. We all live in an unequal society, where chaos and unfairness can fall on us easily. Just like it did in The Crucible.