...Salem: John Proctor The Crucible was a pay that was written by Arthur Miller in 1952 because he was accused of being a communist and he didn't agree with McCarthyism. During the Cold War many were accused of McCarthyism, which is making accusations without proper evidence, and Arthur Miller was a victim of this. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as an allegory to McCarthyism. Arthur Miller wrote about people being accused of involvement with witchcraft. Throughout the play The Crucible many of the characters are changing because of what is happening around them, with everyone getting accused of witchcraft. One of the main dynamic characters, a character that has a significant change in attitude, personality, or behavior, in this play is John Proctor. John Proctor is a considered an honest man in Salem. In the first two or three acts we see that John Proctor could be considered non-religious. John Proctor wasn’t very religious...
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...The Crucible: Compare and Contrasting Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, was about this town in Salem Massachusetts that was driven by greed and lust. out of this small town, two characters played a major role in this horrible event that occurred. These two are Abagail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor. They have multiple differences while having one big thing in common. Abagail was a lying, evil, and mischievous as well as manipulative character. She was caught in the woods dancing with other girls and was being accused by her uncle of doing witch craft and decided to shift the blame to others. When the girl started to discuss among themselves if they should tell the truth Abagail says (Source: EsaayForum.com)...
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...Fear can lead good people to do horrific acts, especially when religion is involved. For example, in the play The Crucible the girls who was following Abigail knew dancing was considered in Salem as an act of the devil. When they got caught dancing in the forest, they began to think about their punishments in this case, were whippens, jail, or even worse death. They decided to keep following Abigail's lead and began to claim that the devil and these images of the people from Salem tried to make them do horrible things. Soon Abigail started to take advantage of this power and used it for evil. Millers play The Crucible shows us how vengeance and land can determine weather some one lives or dies. It also shows how many accusations can lead...
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...Abigail Williams V. Elizabeth Proctor Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor from the 1953 play The Crucible could not be more different. Elizabeth is an honest, caring, religious woman, who cares deeply about her husband and sons. Abigail is a lying, mean, revenge-driven woman, who only has her own self interests at heart. Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible takes place in 1692, in the village of Salem. It is about a well-respected farmer, John Proctor, who had an affair with a seventeen-year girl, Abigail Williams. Abigail then goes on to accuse Elizabeth, John’s wife, of witchcraft, to have her imprisoned and hanged. From their personality, to their values, to their feelings, Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor are polar opposites. In a village of sinners, Elizabeth Proctor is a true saint. According to her husband, she has never told a lie. “There are them that cannot sing, and them that cannot weep—my wife cannot lie.” (Miller 520). She is also so kind-hearted and caring, that she refuses to be angry at her husband, despite that fact that he had an affair with another woman. (Miller 489) “with a smile to keep her dignity”. Lastly, she only believes in doing what is right. She refuses to...
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...The Crucible by Arthur Miller is set in Salem, Massachusetts in a small Puritan village in 1692. John Proctor is a local farmer who lives just outside of Salem with his wife, Elizabeth Proctor, Mary Warren, his servant and his three children. John Proctor is a well-respected and honest man in Salem, but he has two tragic flaws, his affair with Abigail Williams and the decision of giving up his life than signing his name for a confession to witchcraft which would ruin is dignity. John Proctor is a tragic hero because even though he is an upright and good man, he has tragic flaws throughout the play. John Proctor’s first flaw started before the play begins when John’s wife, Elizabeth was sick and lonely he looked to Abigail. His lust for...
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...Even the most honest person will tell a lie to save him or herself. During the Salem Witch Trials, if one is accused of being a witch and he or she goes to trial and doesn’t confess, he or she will be hanged. One may be telling the truth in claiming innocence of witchcraft, but the court will not believe a person accused of witchcraft unless one has confessed. The assumption of the practice of witchcraft came about when Abigail’s Uncle Parris, caught her friends and her dancing around a fire in the woods conjuring spirits. As the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller goes on, some of the characters are found to be honest, jealous and full of pride. Honesty is said to be the best policy, however in The Crucible, the characters...
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...up with fiction when the truth needs to be told. John Proctor in The Crucible, is a farmer in a Puritan society. Proctor has a wife, Elizabeth, and three boys, but only two are baptized. In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, John Proctor was a dishonest man by lying, being dishonest towards Reverend Hale, and betraying his family by being actively involved in adultery. John Proctor is a dishonorable man because he lies.This is an issue because his wife is becoming weary of him. In Act I, John Proctor was alone in a room with Abigail Williams. When Abigail asked how Proctor calls her a child, Proctor replies with, “...I may think of you softly from time to time” (Miller 146). This quote relates directly to Proctor; he states, to Elizabeth, that he does not think...
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...Proctor: Fabricator or Straightforward? Fabrication is looked at the same way lying is, wrong. Coming up with fiction when the truth needs to be told. John Proctor in The Crucible, is a farmer in a Puritan society. Proctor has a wife, Elizabeth, and three boys, but only two are baptized. In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, John Proctor was a dishonest man by lying, being dishonest towards Reverend Hale, and betraying his family by being actively involved in adultery. John Proctor is a dishonorable man because he lies.This is an issue because his wife is becoming weary of him. In Act I, John Proctor was alone in a room with Abigail Williams. When Abigail asked how Proctor calls her a child, Proctor replies with. This quote relates directly to Proctor; he states, to Elizabeth, that he does not think of Abigail in that way anymore. Proctor told two different people two different things in the time frame. In Act II Proctor says that he...
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...In The Crucible by Arthur Miller change in characters throughout the play cause many people to lose their life. The way that people change throughout the play, the people of the town start to think the girls are wrong in accusing everyone. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller each of the characters of Proctor, Hale, and Parris change from the beginning to the end of the play. Proctor becomes more honest, Hale becomes more skeptical of his mission, and Paris finds a shred of humanity inside himself. Throughout the course of the play, John Proctor changes for the best by becoming more honest with himself and everyone...
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...Arthur Miller gives us this play, which represents many things. He shows us people we can relate to and understand. We see trials and tribulations that these characters go through which helps us seem them as raw and unperfect people. Through these effects he establishes the foundations of The Crucible: courage, truth , and weakness which are represented by many characters throughout the play. Elizabeth Proctor, one of the plays most important characters, resembles truth like no other in the play. The part where she reveals her honesty and character is when she is called in front of the court to testify against Abigail Williams for comiting adultery with her husband. In this moment, she lies to protect her husband. Here she is honest to her husband and to her marriage. She is honest and tries to the bigger person in times of trial which is something we can all admire her for. John Proctor, like his wife, has not only superior morals and character, but more courage than the average man. Proctor shows us multiple times that he is more than willing to stand up for...
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...The Crucible The Crucible A story where people get accused of witchcraft for no apparent reason but just bad luck or bad timing. Ever wonder Who John Proctor Really Is? Was he a good man or a man of Guilt? The Crucible, a twisted tale filled with innocent lives wronged from the town court in Salem, Massachusetts’s was written by Arthur Miller. John Proctor was a farmer in his mid-thirties. John Proctor was a man of many ways, people of Salem feared him, and he wanted to be an even-tempered and even courage's. John was a feared man in Salem No one dared to cross him. John P. was also an honest man and he kept his word. Mary Warren Act II “(I am sick, I am sick Mr. Proctor, pray, pray hurt me not)”. Mary Warren was afraid and had to come up with an excuse to not get whipped. Whipping in this time was a common thing, like if a child misbehaved Whipping was the thing to do. Towards the end John P. was accused of witchcraft. It affected the story big, no one could even think about accusing something of this kind. You had to have high power to disrespect him or even do it in public like Mary Warren did at the end. John Proctor wants to be an even-tempered man but he's a very frustrated man. He doesn’t want to get mad easily but can’t help it. Balls up in the worst situation because he doesn’t know what to do. When John was accused he busted out in Court Calling Abigail “(a whore and not to be trusted)”. One other way he acted out was when he was supposed to give up his...
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...How does one deal with lust? For John Proctor, the protagonist in The Crucible, the fatal flaw of lust propels him to make decisions that will eventually cost him his life. Arthur Miller, author of The Crucible, created a classical play about the witch hunts and trials during seventeenth-century Salem. This small-scale town in Massachusetts serves as an example of a community engulfed by hysteria. At the center of the story is John Proctor, who had been initially portrayed as a flawed but generally well-meaning man. Proctor is greatly affected by his past affair with Abigail Williams, a young woman who once worked for his household; she serves as a primary accuser and instigator of the trials. Abigail accuses innocent people of being witches based on lies; she specifically targets Elizabeth Proctor to ultimately retake John and take Elizabeth's spot in their bed....
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...credible to being honest and truthful. John Proctor, a good Christian man, is being sent to hang for two crimes: lechery and witchcraft. His only sin is that he lusted, but the crime of witchcraft isn’t a sin of his. Though he is to die for two crimes, he could have only died for one. He ripped up his one way out of witchcraft, which is the beginning of so many questions. Did he really need to die for two if he could prevent the one? The answer may never be truly justified, but the answers found here will prove that he was right in his mind to hang with his head held high. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible gives plenty of evidence to show that this deduction is correct, that John Proctor was believable. Proctor’s first authentic line is when he says to Elizabeth, “I have been thinking I would confess to them, Elizabeth. What say you? If I give them that” (Act IV. 465-468)? Here, he questions himself inside the lines. The quote shows that this is him in the process of rationalizing what he could possibly do to save himself. Someone who’s about to make a life-changing decision, such as one’s hanging, would question...
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...Elizabeth Proctor and I “What keeps you late? It’s almost dark.” This is what Elizabeth said to John (from The Crucible) as he was walking in from planting crops all day. Elizabeth is just one of the many people accused of witchcraft in The Crucible. She is the wife of John Proctor, whom had an affair on her with Abigail Williams. Luckily, she was pregnant, so she could not hang till the baby was born. Elizabeth Proctor and I can relate by our understanding, meek, and caring nature. Elizabeth and I are both very understanding people. Elizabeth is understanding because she listens to what everyone has to say. She listened to John, and even Hale, when it came to the trials. I also am understanding because I give everyone a chance. I let everyone give their opinions first, then mine, to understand where they are coming from. I also listen to their stories. This is so I have a chance to know them, and understand them better as a person. Therefore, we are both understanding because we listen to everyone to give them a chance. Not only are we understanding, Elizabeth and I are also meek and quiet. Elizabeth is very meek because she lets people “trample” on her. She let Abigail Williams worry her too much when she was around John. I am meek because I am very shy. When I meet someone new, I am very quiet and don't talk,...
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...Crucible essay The playwright The Crucible, by Author Miller, main themes are definitely honesty and integrity. Many people were accused of witchery and were either hung or imprisoned; which depended on their reputation in the town. Lies and dishonesty are a really important part of this story. There are many dishonest things that were said throughout the play. Most of the characters have very strong feelings about their reputations, simply because the time era and where it takes place, in Salem. One character in particular that shows integrity is john Proctor. Proctor thinks very highly of his reputation, but when he made a decision to confess to having an affair he completely ruined his reputation. After he was accused of being a witch, and began his trials, he said “A man will not cast away huis good name.” He didn’t want to ruin his name around town. He at least wanted to have a good legacy to leave his children so he decided to be hung. He says “I have given you my soul; leave my name.” Proctor had stated this when he was told to sign the confession....
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