In the book The Crucible, many scenes have shown that multiple characters have a sense of being hypocritical as they become gossip on things. They are eager to achieve their goals no matter how the consequences will damage others in various ways. Their actions drag lots of innocent people into things that they should not have been.  These hypocritical done by these characters could be extremely harmful and could eventually affect the situation in the story completely.

One of the characters I believe that has been an evident hypocrite in The Crucible is Abigail Williams. She is the key person that in some way manipulating the witchcraft event into a suspicious and complicated incident that drag innocent people in it.  She pretends to be innocent and trustworthy to make her false accusations seem real and logical. Moreover, she pretends to worship God so the crowd would more possibly support her accusations on people. As a result, she sent 19 innocent people to their deaths just by her false accusation on witchcraft.

Abigail Williams  by Weebly via CC BY-SA 2.0

“I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus…” (49, Miller) 

“I saw Goody Hawkins with the Devil! I saw Goody Booth with the Devil!” (49, Miller) 

In addition, She is also being a hypocrite in her affair with John Proctor while she accused Elizabeth, John Proctor’s wife, of witchcraft. Her intention of doing it can be based on John Proctor’s motive of trying to clear out the relationship between Abigail and himself, and her jealousy between John and Elizabeth which by accusing Elizabeth of witchcraft, Abigail could possibly get Elizabeth hanged on the court so she could win back John Proctor as her dearly lover. Nonetheless, Abigail’s value should not take her this far to be able to manipulate the overall situation in the story and should not have made this significant impact on condemning the innocent people.

“She is blackening my name in the village!… She is a cold, sniveling woman, and you bend to her! Let her turn you like a..” (22, Miller) 

Thinking of hypocrite, I have come up with a movie that has somehow related to this topic. Recently, I have watched a movie named How to Train Your Dragon 2″. It is a movie based on the story of the Viking village of Berk. In the movie, the Vikings have been conflicting with the dragons for several generations, however, Hiccup decided to overturn this situation while he has been developing feeling between a dragon and it went completely fine. He advocates that there should be no killing of dragons in the future and maintain peace with the dragons. In spite of that, Hiccup and the Vikings still killed a number of dragons that went against them which it included the dragon king in the first movie. I believed that it is considered hypocritical since their aim was to avoid dragon killing but the Viking decided to maintain peace whether the consequences will disobey their own oath.

How the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy wound up with the most thrilling music since Star Wars by Matt Patches via CC BY-SA 2.0