“You’re the Devil’s man!” (118), Mary Warren cried out when she accused John Proctor of working for the devil. Courage is defined as mental or moral strength to face danger without fear. This is supported in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Throughout the Salem witch trials in the 1600’s, courage was that good people held in to, even through the toughest times. To illustrate this, an example of someone with courage is John Proctor. …showed first 75 words of 1663 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1663 total…in The Crucible. The first was the murdering of many innocent people, and the second was that a community that was once very close had been broken apart. It appeared that the people of Salem were like a family but isolation actually made them unable to adapt to a troublesome situation. If the community could have had a greater influence from another group of people then the social structure would have been able to adapt.