Sunday, March 10, 2013
Reputation
Throughout The Crucible, we find that reputation plays an important role in the town of Salem. The towns people fear for their lives as they are accused of the evil doings of witchcraft. Even the "most righteous" women are accused of witchcraft and plead for their innocence by lying and confessing to doing witchcraft. Reputation is also shown through Elizabeth because in court she lies about her husbands affair to save his reputation. Reputation can be seen through other various characters. Do you think that without the act of reputation the characters motives would have been the same? Or would you conclude that without reputation being shown in the it would have differed?
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I highly doubt that their actions would've been the same. Especially in Mr. Putnam's case. He cared deeply for his reputation and when he saw that he was not getting the 'respect he deserved', he wanted to get back at the townspeople. The witch trials gave him the opportunity to lash out but at the same time able to escape punishment. Putnam was often times responsible for someone being accused and mention in the beginning of the play. His selfishness and vanity actions played a big role in the trials.
ReplyDeleteI also see it differ in Parris case. Since his daughter was a suspect of witchcraft the he was worried about his reputation. Therefore during Proctors case he tried with the best of his ability to make the accusation sound believable. In this way the story could have changed
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