Reflection 5- Human Nature

Human nature has been relavent throughout the whole entire play, The Crucible. I took the class psychology this year because it is actually really really interesting. We learn a lot about human nature and behavior. We have not got to far in reading into human nature, but I am very excited to get to that farther into the school year. In the book the crucible the women are practicing witchcraft, even though pretty much everyone in society knows that it is wrong. When they practice witchcraft, the husbands defend them. A husband defending his wife is human nature. In the Crucible all of the husbands defend their wives of their wrongdoings(Miller III). When you care about someone and you are on their team then you are going to defend them, even sometimes when you know that they are wrong. Also throughout the whole book people are defending themselves. This is definitley human nature. Everyone needs to learn to defend themselves because if you do not then you are going to get walked over your whole entire life. Plus if you can not even defend yourself then how could you expect others to defend you?? Also in the book the crucible Abigail is looking out for herself and defending herself but she does it in a negative way. When Proctor defends himself he is not being shady and lying when doing so(Miller 117). So in my opinion Proctor is in the right. However, Abigail is in the wrong here because she is lying. She is lying to look out for herself and only herself. There is a lot of human nature with defending in this book because a lot of people are doing things wrong and they need to defend themselves because they are not doing the right thing. Perhaps if they were doing the right thing, then they would not need to defend themselves whether it be positive or negative. the whole concept of human nature is actually extremely interesting. People do things every single day and just do them without even thinking about it. If you someone calls you a liar immediatly you want to fight them on that point and prove that you are not. It is human nature to want to be right. People could call you that and without even thinking about it you could get super defensive really quick. It is just so interesting to me that your brain processes things and reacts this way so fast. You do not even have to process some things yourself before human nature takes over and you get defensive. That is exactly what many characters like Abigail, Proctor, husbands of their wrong doing wives do in the play the Crucible. People tell lies throughout the crucible. This is also a form of human nature because not all human nature is good. Some people lie in real life to watch out for the feelings of people that they love that they do not want to hurt. Or some people lie because they want to save themselves and do not really care what happens to other people. Abigail is a liar in this book and it is for the wrong reasons. She is only trying to save herself.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible: a Play in Four Acts. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1976. Print.