ROUGH DRAFT THESIS STATEMENT

2. Crucible Reputations Essay
Oscar Wildes, an Irish novelist and poet once said, "One can survive everything
nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation." Through
this, Oscar acknowledges that everything in society is pretty much escapable, but living
up to a good reputation within the community, is a constant and continuous effort. In the
book "The Crucible," Arthur Miller portrays multiple characters outliving and getting past
the strict moral values in an attempt to keep up with a good reputation through John
Proctor, Reverend Paris, and Abigail Williams.

3. "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and
sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How
may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"- John
Proctor. The Crucible by Arthur Miller portrayed that in Salem, reputation was very
important. It was so important that if something was done to unclean your name, your
children were condemned to live with an unclean name. Today's society is the same,
reputation still has a high-power. For example, Michael Jackson named was ruined with
the accusations that arose. When his name came up pedophile came to mind. He died
with an unclean name and destroyed reputation. Reputation has become such

8. "My reputation grows with every failure," quote by George Bernard shaw expresses
a lot about several characters in Arthur Miller's famous play The Crucible. During the
Salem Witch trials reputation meant absolutely everything to almost everyone.
Reputation was people thought of you not who you truly were. It took the people living
during those years a lot of wonderful actions but it frankly only took one inadequate
action to ruin their name in the village. Reputation meant everything like in the case of
Reverend Hale and John Proctor. Meanwhile there were others that didn't care so much
about their reputation like in the case of Abigail.


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