Misuse of power Essay

The crucible is largely concerned with the abuse and sophisticate of causation in Salem. argue with reference to any three char defenders. The misuse of power in The crucible leads to horrible suffering and even the deaths of some innocent people, in the town. approximately characters in the play misuse their power towards other characters some characters misuse their power in the courtroom and some misuse their power in religion (in perform). In this essay I intend to look at the misuse of power focusing on the characters of Abigail Williams, governor Danforth and empyreal Parris.Abigail Williams Misuses her power extensively throughout the play. She has most of the adults in Salem believing that she is a sweet innocent girl and so is never institutionalised or suspended of doing anything sinful or unlawful. She also has most of the girls of Salem obeying her, due(p) to a mixture of respect and business organization, fear of Abigail and also a fear of getting in trouble for the dancing. The women of Salem be also white-lipped of Abigail as she could quite easily accuse them of witchcraft with no questions asked, as she is known to be sweet and innocent.Abigail did bring power over hindquarters Proctor when he was having an affair with her, as he lusted after Abigail. Although she no longer has power over John Proctor as he learns during the play what she is really like when he turns her down. In act 3 of The Crucible Abigail seems to hasten power over court officials. When Abigail is accusing bloody shame Warren of witchcraft in the courtroom, Governor Danforth begins to question Abigail. Abigail replies with shock and says that she is hurt, Governor Danforth then swiftly backs off.Abigail then begins to threaten Danforth with how hell could take him in conceptualise you be so mighty that the power of Hell may not turn your wits? Beware of it. Danforth then seems to be alert of Abigail in the next reply to her, the book describes what he sa ys as anxiously. Danforth has began to be aware of what Abigail is doing and decided to not get in her look or upset her, as he didnt want her to accuse him of being in contact with the Devil. If she did this it would be him on trial as well as all the others. Another point about Abigail is that she is a liar and she is very good at it.This is how she is so respected by some people and feared by others. In my opinion the reason Abigail is so cosmosipulative and weird, and also seems to have no feeling or a conscience, is because her parents were murdered by Indians in front of her. She describes this to the girls in a hard-hearted way, which shows that her emotions have all been drained apart from her love/lust for proctor and her covetously of Elizabeth. Reverend Parris misuses his power in The Crucible because he does not think the townspeople of Salem respect his position as a man of God.The Churches power at that time was very strong and so Reverend Parris has no problem in u sing his power the vilify way. The way in which he misuses his power is mostly from the pulpit of the church in his sermons. He believes that the church is the authority of all people in the town. He also believes himself an authoritative figure. He believes that anyone who does not commit his or her lives to the church should be questioned. He also demands that the people of Salem are obedient to the church and himself. He says that if they are not obedient, then they pull up stakes burn in hell.Reverend Parris preaching things like this in his sermon strikes fear into the townspeople, as they begin to think Hell is upon them and this causes chaos to tire out out, as they begin to yell and scream at one another. Reverend Parris hates to be wrong, in the courtroom even when he realised that he is wrong to accuse all the people involved, he still sticks to his beliefs even wrong they may be. Parris causes innocent peoples deaths all because of his beliefs, stubbornness, self-ce nteredness and his misuse of power.I have reached the conclusion that the characters in The Crucible do misuse their power the deuce characters I chose demonstrate this theory very well. Not all the characters in the play do, but there are many characters that do. This selfish act of misusing power in The Crucible is very influential to how the plot develops. Without Abigail Williams playacting like a selfish, irresponsible strumpet, or Reverend Parris being selfish and power-hungry The Crucible would have lost its whole page-turning ominous, experience.