FREE ESSAY ON BOREDOM AND ITS VICTIMS IN ARTHUR MILLER'S THE CRUCIBLE

BOREDOM AND ITS VICTIMS IN ARTHUR MILLER'S THE CRUCIBLE

Boredom and Its Victims in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
When bored, people tend to portray or act differently to either attract attention or
change society. The girls in The Crucible are bored of Puritan life and want to do more
to get more fun out of Salem life. Boredom led the girls to perform sins that the Puritan
society disagrees with entirely. In The Crucible
By Arthur Miller, boredom proves to be a catalyst for murder.
The girls in Salem wanted more attention and more out of Puritan life. Being bored by
following the strict Puritan society, the girls rebel against the traditional ways by
dancing, singing, and laughing at prayer. What the girls hope to accomplish by rebellion
is to draw attention and hope to change the ways the Puritans act or think. Boredom
causes people to act differently to get what they want. With the girls in The Crucible,
they wanted to show others that there are things that they want to do that will not send
them to hell. This is true in today's world too with people getting bored of the same old
tradition, so they change their clothes, looks, music, and attitude to change society. 
The girls getting caught dancing and singing made them to believe that their fun time was
over. When asked about the dancing and the singing, they did what any child would do in
fear and deny it. But soon the girls were getting bored with denying about the singing
and dancing so the girls told more lies to gain attention from the others. With saying
more lies, the girls got too much they could handle. With accusing someone of being a
witch, they brought attention to everyone in Salem. This attention excited some of the
girls because they were finally getting attention from everyone. Yet there are others who
are afraid that all this attention will break right in front of them and expose the
frauds they are. This is true in today's world where almost everyone in today's society
has told a lie in order to either gain respect, attention, or to get higher position in
the world.
As the events in Salem began to progress faster and faster with the witch trials, so did
the numerous lies that came from the girls. The girls thirst for attention led them to
their thirst for murder. As each girl announce names of witches they claimed to see, they
announced names of those they hated, disliked, loved or seek revenge upon them. This was
their chance to get back at those who hurt them in the past. This shows the evil side of
mankind, shows that mankind will seek revenge on the first chance he/she gets. It also
shows that mankind would rather have dozens of people be killed then themselves be beaten
or killed. It is human nature to protect ourselves from death at any cost. It shows here
in The Crucible that the girls went too far and still decided to proceed having people
killed instead themselves suffer the consequences of lying. 
In conclusion, boredom not only leads the girls to murder but also the Puritan society
for following. Society never showed rebellion to the traditional Puritan way, but
followed in what the girls performed by dancing and singing. Then when the trials came
along, almost all of Salem joined in with the girls because it was something different
for them to do. It seems that the Puritan society and our modern society are the same
with this issue. Both societies are afraid to do something different, but until a person
or a group of people does it, then everyone follows the bandwagon. It shows us that
society is the followers while the people are the leaders making the changes for all of
us.