The Crucible Creative Writing

Dear Mr. Danforth,

It pains me to write this letter, knowing that nor mine or my families lives will be
the same afterward. However, these ludicrous claims of witchcraft have gone on too
long and if I let my wife be charged as an innocent women, I know my head will never
peacefully touch a pillow again. I have information which should set her free and
prove her innocence against all claims. Before I explain the context, know that I know
that I am not a saint, nor do I pretend to be. But I am a man of the lord, and know that
despite the sins allowing me to say this, this is the right thing to say.

Abigail, the woman, or rather the girl who spreads this here say against my wife and
other good folk around Salem is a liar and a whore. Her word can be no more valued
than horse slop. I know this, because there was a time I was close with Abigail, and I
shamefully confess my adulterous past with her. Lust led me to sin and not a day goes
by that I don't regret what I did. But it was because of this relationship that she
confided in me that she was lying, yanking the whole town's chains about the witches
just so she could avoid a dash of trouble about dancing in the woods. Anyone with a
past like hers cannot be trusted or taken seriously, especially when there is conclusive
testimony opposing her claims. Surely you believe me, for after confessing the sin
used as evidence to this claim, I have tarnished the Proctor name and with it all the
pride I had once known.

Yet, I am still a man of god. Perhaps not a man of the church, but a man of god.
Through this faith I understand that the right thing to do is send you this letter
explaining both my guilt, but more importantly Abigail's guilt. "Do that which is good
and no harm shall come to thee." Who am I if those are words I preach, but do not act
by? Well, god dammit I am mailing this letter and doing good, and I can only hope
you will come to your senses and do good as well.

John Proctor

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Crucible
Dearest Ruben,
I am writing this kind of letter in the hopes that I can easily explain me personally and
allow you to understand why I have done the things i did. You are angry with me at
this point and perhaps My spouse and i deserve your anger, nevertheless, you must
know in your heart that your wife was standing between all of us. We hardly ever
could have been together so long as somebody else called very little Mrs. David
Proctor. This is a name which should be reserved for the one you love and I be aware
that you never have loved her truly if not you would never have turned to myself.
Perhaps I am receiving too far before myself. Allow me to start at first. Please merely
read through this letter throughout and by the end everything will be explained but it
will surely make sense for you my closest and you will be forced to forgive me
personally.
Everything began so just. My friends and i also were frolicking innocently in the
forest. All of us weren’t also doing anything at all dramatic or perhaps terrible. Every
we were undertaking was moving and singing and producing braids of flowers with
darling Tituba. Oh poor, poor Tituba. You must consider pity onto her as you must
take pity on me. Then my personal awful granddad came upon us and you understand
how he is. Started to scream and shout and reported that that which we were
undertaking was nasty and the devil’s work. I had been so anxious. So was Betty. He
scared her so that she had to feign a fit to get out of his wrathful hands! Before I knew
it they will called for that odious Reverend John Hale and this individual starts going
on about how we’ve been involved in witchcraft! He insecure me my darling Ruben.
He endangered me with damnation and hellfire and promised i and my local freinds
would become punished from God. The single thing I could perform was cast the
blame elsewhere or I would personally have been in a lot more trouble. This individual

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stood above me, towering in his garments of the clergy and demanded to know who
introduced me personally to witchcraft and devil worship. The first identity that came
in my head was Tituba’s. Well, actually the first identity that came into your head was
your own but that is because you are always in my mind. Perhaps it is actually your
wrong doing. Could I have obtained from you even the slightest attention that day time
in Betty’s sick space I might experienced the courage to endure that man. But not any!
You abandoned me therefore i brought Tituba into the condition. She was the one who
acquired us all dance and fooling about in the woods when we should have recently
been doing even more productive points. I was not really the one who have said the
lady was a witch. They were accusing me and i also had to do anything to obtain
myself away of difficulties and so I offered them the slave girl. From there things just
seemed to spiral additional and further uncontrollable. Tituba was naming persons and
Betty was and i also felt that if I would not likewise lead then they will rise against
me! Please understand Ruben that I never intended to damage anyone. It really was
excessive for me to combat against.
I’m certain that most of the present anger is not really about others, of Goody.

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 The Guilt of The Crucible
The crucible is a play that was written in 1953 by the American playwright Arthur
Miller. It is a exaggerate and fictionalized story about the Salem witch trials that took
place in colonial Massachusetts during 1692. The Salem Witch Trials were a series of
hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft. Many themes ran through
this play hysteria, reputation, and jealousy. However in the play guilt is the factor that
most influenced the trials. In the play the crucible guilt is the factor that consumes the
character in more than one way.
        Even before the trials began there was of guilt in the town. This guilt was secured
in John Proctor. John Proctor's guilt sprang from his affair with Abigail Williams. He
felt as though he had tainted himself in God’s eyes, his own eyes, and his wife
Elizabeth’s eyes. In this act John Proctor is speaking to Abigail Williams  he is telling
her that even though he wants to he will not be with her again because he is with  his
wife. “Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut my hand off
before I’ll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of your mind. We never touched,
Abby… angered-at himself as well: You’ll speak nothin’ of Elizabeth!” (1270). He
even tries to have her forget this act of sin ever occurred. He is bound to his wife by
guilt, so when Abigail Williams insults his wife ,he defends her. This sin he has
committed has strained his life with guilt. The guilt is so strong that he hardly left the
house often in seven months. John Proctor did succumb to sin and commit adultery,

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however, he lacks the capacity to forgive himself. Unsurprisingly, his relationship
with Elizabeth remains strained throughout the majority of the play. He resents
Elizabeth because she cannot forgive and trust him , but he is guilty of the same crime.
In fact, his own inability to forgive himself intensifies his reaction to Elizabeth's lack
of forgiveness. “Woman. I’ll not have your  suspicions any more…Spare me! You
forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this
house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there without I think
to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches around your heart. I cannot
speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court
when I come in this house!..Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!” (1294-95).
This is proof that, even months later, Elizabeth won’t let his sins go which lets his
guilt ensue.
        In the play, when the arrests of the accused witches started. John Proctor
predicted that Reverend Hale would not be free from the guilt that will be the result of
these trials. John Proctor tells  Reverend Hale that he cannot arrest Elizabeth. “Pontius
Pilate! God will not let you wash your hand of this! ”(1309). This is alluding to the
bible. Pontius Pilate was a Roman leader who condemned Jesus to be crucified.
“When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against
Jesus to put Him to death.  And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and
delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.” (Matthew 27:1-2). In the bible, Pontius
Pilate washed his hands after Christ had been crucified, because he was against
Christ's death. “When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an
uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am
innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!" (Matthew 27:24).
The washing of his hands symbolized that it was not his fault, the people chose
Christ's fate. John Proctor tells Hale he cannot wash his hands off for the arrest of
Elizabeth the way Pontius Pilate did after Christ's death.
        Reverend Hale wasn’t the only one who felt guilt in the end of the play.
Reverend Parris also felt the guilt of the trials. He was the minister of Salem’s church,

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and was a power-hungry figure. Many of the townsfolk, especially John Proctor, did
not like him, and Reverend Parris was very concerned for his reputation in the
community. In the end of the play you saw a one hundred and eighty degrees character
spin.in the bennig of the play he was just some greedy minister who wanted golden
candle sticks and riches. He only cared about himself. In the end he changed by caring
about saving John Proctor. After John Proctor and many others have been arrested
Reverend Parris starts to see the fault in these trials and began to feel the guilt , to the
extent that he tried to postpone the hangings. “Excellency, I would postpone these
hangin’s for a time.” (1347). The change in his character was  most surprising when
Reverend Parris  tried his hardest to free John Proctor. “…I summoned the
congregation for John Proctor’s excommunication there were hardly thirty people
come to hear it. That speaks discontent” (1347). He tried to argue John Proctor life by
saying even when he tried to excommunicate him barely anyone in the town supported
it. Reverend Parris even seems desperate to remove his guilt by being nice to John
Proctor. “If you desire a cup of cider, Mr. Proctor, I am sure I – God may lead you
now.”  (1351). He tried to go out of his way to be nice to John Proctor even when it
wasn’t welcome. When John Proctor admits to witchcraft to survive Reverend Parris
was so relieved he said “Praise God!”.  “…I beg you let him sign it.” (1355) , “Go to
him, Goody Proctor! There is yet time!...Go to him! Proctor! Proctor!” (1358). All he
wanted was to free John Proctor to relieve his guilt, it even made him desperate .
        In The Crucible, guilt played a huge part. Guilt was a factor that affected most of
the character, it was a constant theme in the play. The guilt that characters possessed
ran the characters actions and feelings.

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