The Crucible is filled with ironic twists and turns that not only affects the characters, but also the readers and the social messages given throughout the story. The characters are affected by the irony of the play because they do not understand why some of the other characters do what they do. The readers are affected by this irony in the way that they get either frustrated, scared, happy, or annoyed by some of the actions the characters do, suggests, the characters have absolutly no idea what’s going on. Since everyone is lying about any and everything the social message gets affected by the irony because the truth seems like a lie now, so there is no reason to tell the truth in this situation. The characters are kept in the dark about a lot of stuff that is going on, but the readers are able to find out all the details of every aspect of the play, which is also called dramatic irony. In the scene where John Proctor tells Judge Danforth that he had an affair with Abigail Williams, Proctor says “God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance, and you must see it” and we…show more content… We, as readers, knew that John Proctor had a horrible secret, and most of us probably couldn’t wait until everyone knew about it, so when Elizabeth lies about the secret and decides to keep her husband’s name whole, it messes up everything in the play, essentially. At the time Elizabeth didn’t know what she had done, but we did, we knew that she made it seem like John Proctor was lying about the whole affair with Abigail. John Proctor says “In her life, sir, she have never lied. There are them that cannot sing, and them that cannot weep -- my wife cannot lie. I have paid much to learn it”, so since Elizabeth can’t lie, she most likely will tell the truth, but in this particular case she did lie and it affected the social message. The irony of the Crucible affects the readers in the way they feel about the
