The Crucible The Crucible is a novel based on the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, written by Arthur Miller. The Crucible demonstrates the forbidden temptation between John Proctor and Abigail Williams, honor and dishonor in the town of Salem, merciless revenge and the struggle for high social status. The narrative style of this play is the standard everyday language of the 1950s. The Crucible is set in a theocratic society of Puritanism in 1692. Miller uses imagery and figurative language when Abigail Williams attempts to get John Proctor to admit his lust for her even though he is trying to repair his marriage to Elizabeth Proctor. “I have a sense of heat, John, and yours drew me to my window, and I saw you look up, burning in your loneliness. You tell me you never looked up at my window?" John Proctor's humility as an adulterer is lengthened when he is forced to give up his "good name" and confess to witchcraft in exchange for his life. “Because it's mine name! Because I may not have another in my life! Because I lie and indulge in lies!...