Overall I thought The Crucible was just ok. I expected the ending
of the book to be a little bit more dynamic. I thought that it was sad that
Proctor died at the end of the story because he did not do the crime he was
sentenced to death for. I also found it almost kind of repulsive how Abigail
had no remorse for anything she had done. She didn’t even care if she accused
her own cousin, Mary Warren, of a crime (punishable by death) if it meant that
she could walk away unscathed. I had hoped that Abigail’s lying would come back
and destroy her in the end, so it was a little bit disappointing to me that she
just ran away, never to be heard from again.
In the epilogue the author said that Abigail was seen as a prostitute in
Boston later on. I found that only a little bit ironic due to the crime that
she committed (adultery) with Proctor. Something else I found disturbing was
how blind to the truth Danforth was. He never realized that people were lying
just to save themselves, and that the people who would not confess to witch
craft were telling the truth. In the end, the whole community knew the truth,
except for Danforth, the only person who decided a person’s fate. The only
positive thing I found at the end of the book was that Proctor finally made
peace with Elizabeth over the crime he committed, which was a major problem
between the two of them throughout the duration of the play.
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