Human nature is definitely being shown in The Crucible. What I have noticed, though, is that it shows more of the bad things that humans tend to do to each other and other things that are more filled with drama other than the good things about us humans.
One thing I noticed going on a lot in this play is that everyone blames everyone for everything. Nobody wants to be the blame for something, so they just pass it down to some other person. They don't think of the consequences very well and just do whatever gets them out of the situation. People do this a bit. What they don't take into consideration is that by blaming someone else, you can make their life a whole lot harder, and it can back fire on you quite easily if you're not careful.
Whenever the girls were actually practicing witch craft and dancing around the pot, drinking blood, sacrificing frogs, they all denied it. They lied about it, and tried to hide it. This is just another point of trying to hide something and doing whatever you can to get out of something. I understand that if the girls admitted to trying to practice witch craft, they could have been killed, but I don't think it would be fair to blame others for what they did. It caused a big snowball effect.
Another thing I noticed is people following the crowd. As much as we all want to stand out in at least one way, we all want to fit in at the same time, at least have something to fit into anyway. Everyone during this time believed in witches and it wasn't weird in anyway to them if someone would just randomly accuse someone else of being a witch, most people would actually believe that that person is a witch with out a doubt and avoid that person at all costs, wanting them to die. There was one person in this book that I remember (though I don't remember his name, or the page he was on)that didn't believe in witches or anything. Most people frowned upon this, they figured that he was crazy since he didn't believe what everyone else believed. People thought that since his opinion and thoughts were different that he was the crazy one. Even if other people agreed with him, they probably wouldn't admit it since it wasn't the popular opinion.
The last thing that I will be writing about in this blog is actually something good about humans that was in Act III. John Proctor was defending his wife in the court for the witch trials. He just doesn't want her to killed because she is supposedly a witch and he doesn't believe this is true. (Miller 89) It is just nice to see that in this book where there are so many back stabbing things going on, people will still in the end try to fight for what is right, or that at least some people will anyway.
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. Print.
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