Pride carries a broad variety of connotation among differing people. Pride can represent someones whole self worth or simply be another set of syllables in the English language. Pride may be someones support to get up every morning, and it is the backbone to their entire personality(Compound). Pride can represent whatever you need it depict, but everyones perspective is up for interpretation. Pride is capable of being an individuals segway to propel a long lived goal or be the reason they take a few steps back due to an immoral decision. The Crucible, effectively demonstrates the consequences and backfires that pride can have on a community. Not only can an individuals pride result in disputes in their lives, but it has the ability to disturb the lives of others. Arthur Miller, in The Crucible, presents various characters like Abigail, Danforth, and Proctor, that cause detrimental and toxic issues in Salem all over the risk of having pride in their clean reputati
ons. With Abigails pretentious nature, she arrogantly ranks her name at a high and innocent status in the Salem community. The insidious (vocab) girl puts on prodigious (vocab) acts, as able to be observed during multiple instances during the play, and it snowballs into her having absolute control of power and much harm in the town. The power that Abigail gained in return for her snobby and narcissistic ego only fueled her confidence and negatively affected the town completely. Parris is accusing her and Betty for pursuing witchcraft in the woods, and Abigail arrogantly remarks,There be no blush about my name(Miller 12). Though she has already committed immense crimes, such as false accusations of Tituba and a secretive affair with John Proctor, she is still boasting her name as clean within the society (Complex). Her embodiment of innocence, I believe, is all a deceiving mask for the public. Her inner plentiful confidence subsequently leads to her wrong- doings,