the protagonist of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, risks everything due to loving two different women. As the play starts readers find out that John is having an affair with the town tart, Abigail Williams. He does not believe in the idea of witchcraft. Proctor is very selfish about the affair with Abigail and states to judge Danforth “A man will not cast away his good name. You surely know that.” Many things motivate John to change throughout The Crucible such as Abigail charging his wife with witchcraft
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The Crucible took place in the summer of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. In this time frame the trails of witchcraft were evident around different towns. Arthur Miller wrote a story about the young girls in the community in Salem. In Act I of The Crucible Miller writes about Abigail Williams and makes reference to Elizabeth Proctor. These two women are total opposites in many ways. Abigail is a young girl who is demanding and needs to always be in control, while Elizabeth is a wife, mother to three
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Preserving one’s reputation is a prevalent theme in The Crucible. Several of the characters are concerned about their reputations. Do you think a good name is more important than the truth? I think that the truth is more important because honesty is, im my opinion, the best quality. If you lie just to save your reputation, people may find out and then you would have a reputation for being a liar. If you tell the truth and people know that it is the truth, then you will have a reputation for being
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Imagine you condemned 72 innocent people to death, believing they were guilty, and then discovered that you were wrong. This is the life of Reverend Hale, a character in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, whose actions and inactions greatly impact the lives of the other characters. In Act I, Reverend Hale appears and acts very haughtily. He believes he knows everything about witches and that he is the savior of Salem. For instance, when he says, “Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined,
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During this book you will see many people die for for a reason now-a-days people don’t believe in. The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller. This play is based on the events of 1692 and 1693. During this time people believed in witchcraft. Witchcraft is the belief that people made a pact with the devil to do magic. Through it all people stayed true to their values like Rebecca Nurse who stayed to her belief with God and the devil was never here. While I stick to my values through hard times
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Plays and novels these days constantly have movie remakes. The Crucible by Arthur Miller had a film produced for it in 1996 which was forty-four years after the play was written. The film itself is extremely similar to the play besides the fact that minor changes occurred. Between the film and the play, there are slight differences made by the screenwriters and the playwright himself. For example in the play, it states that John Proctor “goes directly to her and grabs her by the cloak…” John Proctor
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Ashley Schoenberger Mrs. Adkins English 5/6 11 September 2016 The Crucible VS The Red Scare The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Red Scare relate because of the way the trials were held. The Crucible just like The Red Scare has something to do with convicting, killing innocent people and imprisoning. In the Salem witch trial, people were in trepidation of witch craft the same way that Americans were in apprehension of communism. Around this time and between The Cold War, Joseph McCarthy was a first-term
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Cultural Repetition, Regression, and Variation Throughout history, the same events are repeated as groups of people deal with problems in their society. Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, was written when McCarthyism, which involved the persecution of suspected communists, was at a high. The play explores the seemingly timeless parallels of panicked groups hoping to protect themself and their own between the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy Era trials that are still applicable today as the
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In the play “The Crucible” many of the characters underwent many emotional and moral changes. Some were affected by the witch trials more than others, such as the accused underwent many moral challenges as did the many loved ones of the accused. Out of all the characters many will agree John Proctor overcame many hardships and faced a lot of trials that tested him as a person and a puritan. In the beginning of the play John Proctor is introduced to the audience, he seems like a very independent
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The use of the spectral evidence themselves was the central problem in the trials. Apparitions of demons were invisible to other people in the same room and only the afflicted girls could see the shapes, which was one of the problem with spectral evidence. The possibility that Satan could appear in the shape of an innocent person was another concern. Confessions were vigorously sought to overcome these obstacles. One thing I noticed in the Salem witch trials is that the defendants who confessed were
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