Irony In The Crucible

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The symbolic meaning in The Crucible is not overtly stated for anyone to simply read; it is implied within the story and a reader or a viewer is left with the task of making inferences to better understand the story. Many situations are presented that make drawing one’s own conclusions necessary for a full understanding of what is actually happening because the story was written in a form that relies primarily on ambiguity and some forms of irony. As an example of this, when John Proctor is speaking with his wife near the beginning of Act Two, Elizabeth (his wife) says that Mary Warren said that “There be fourteen people in the jail now,...”. We infer that the trials have continued since the end of the first act eight days earlier,

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