The Crucible act three- Human nature

When I think of human nature, I think of a person's first reaction to something. I think of something that every human does. Human nature is like natural instincts. Like protecting yourself from something. It's just something you do without thinking about it. In The Crucible, Human nature is displayed in many different ways. When all of the women in the town were being blamed for witchcraft, they all denied it. When they knew that they were being blamed for witchcraft, they tried to shift the blame on to someone else. This is what I would consider human nature. It is human nature for someone to try to get out of being blamed for something. It happens all the time. Like if I have a homework assignment and I do not complete it on time, my first reaction is to blame someone else or something else. I always want to make up an excuse as to why I did not complete the assignment, when usually it is really just my fault. This is true for everyone. Whenever we are blamed for something, we always want to shift the blame on to someone else. When we shift blame on to someone or something else, it is usually put on the wrong person. This is very unfair. In this book, a doll was found with some needles stuck in it. No one knew what to think so they blamed it on witchcraft, when, in reality, it was not witchcraft at all. It was simply a doll with some needles stuck in to it. When the blame was put on witchcraft, it got somebody in trouble for doing witchcraft. This is why blaming is wrong. They were not sure of why the doll had needles in it and it was scary to them so they blamed it on something scary and terrible such as witchcraft when in reality the doll was harmless. When they shifted the blame like that, they could have gotten someone hung for performing witchcraft when in reality the person was innocent. This is why blame is not a very pretty trait of human nature. Another part of human nature is doing whatever you can to protect yourself or someone that you love. In this book, many people were in danger of being blamed for witchcraft. If you were found responsible for witchcraft, you were to be hung. This was very scary for a lot of people and they did not want this fate to fall on them. In order to protect themselves, they put other people in danger of being hung. One example of this is Abigail. She was desperate not to be found guilty of witchcraft, so she did whatever she could to make herself look innocent. She was always blaming people for witchcraft. Since she was always acting like she was so against witchcraft and witches and acting like she wanted all the witches to be hung, she was never even suspected of being a witch. This was a very clever tactic for Abigail. She was very smart by gaining everybody's trust in this way.

Bibliography
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. New York, NY: Penguin, 1996. Print.