The Crucible

Is Vengeance Enough? “You are pulling Heaven down and raising up a whore!”(Pg. 50). This quote shows how someone’s private motives for something, can have consequences on other people’s lives. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller many people use their vengeance against their friends to get what they want. Abigail William’s, Reverend Paris, and Mr. Putnam do this by lying to the court and casting their nabor’s to death. “Don’t …

…Mr. Putnam show how he can have consequences far beyond other people lives. The people of Salem were greedy, they use their children to cry witch on people just to fulfill their private motives. This shows how powerful people’s motives can be to get them what they want. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the reader is shown how a mans private motives can often have consequences far beyond his or other people lives.