The Crucible Drafts

2. Crucible Reputations Essay
Oscar Wildes, an Irish novelist and poet once said, "One can survive everything
nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation." Through
this, Oscar acknowledges that everything in society is pretty much escapable, but living
up to a good reputation within the community, is a constant and continuous effort. In the
book "The Crucible," Arthur Miller portrays multiple characters outliving and getting past
the strict moral values in an attempt to keep up with a good reputation through John
Proctor, Reverend Paris, and Abigail Williams.

This is a great introduction of the book. Mainly, because it starts out w/ a quote. That involves reputation and how it is hard to keep up w/ it.

In Arthur Miller's famous play The Crucible, innocent people are accused of witchcraft
and are killed as a result. The importance of one's reputation is one of the major themes
shown in the play. The townspeople are held to very strict moral values and must uphold
their good name in Salem's community. John Procter, Elizabeth Procter, and Abigail all
have there reputation misrepresented in some way. Each one was being accused of
witchcraft or lies to protect ones name.

I like the way this person starts out by saying that, innocent people were being killed.

In Arthur Miller's widely known play The Crucible, harsh punishment and even death is
given to faultless citizens who are accused of being involved with witchcraft. The name
of people held their reputation. People strive to keep a good name in the village so that
they are portrayed as affable people. The majority of people that were accused of being
witches were the outcasts of the town that had bad names in the village. Many
characters see their name or reputation as their position in society. Abigail
Williams, John Proctor, and Reverend Hale all value their reputation in the village and
are willing to do anything to keep their good name.

I like the way the this person starts out by saying that innocent people were being killed, too. I really like the way he or/her goes into detail and examples of how there reputation is being ruined.

Embedded Quotes

1. The poppet is dangerous w/ all of it's witchcraft, “hard proof."

2. There shall be no hiding of,"fear."

3. I have seen nothing of both my niece and money"vanished."