the people around you to be arrested and hanged to get whatever you want be considered as selfish and wicked? In “The Crucible” by Author Miller, Abigail Williams is a vicious and vindictive person who used the witchcraft hysteria around the town of Salem in 1692. Abigail Williams is a 17 year old orphan who is strikingly beautiful but she is a liar and a fake. She saw an opportunity to seek vengeance upon John’s wife for kicking her out of their house and wanting to take her place in John’s bed. Although
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What are the characters like in The Crucible? There are two ways an author introduces a character: by using direct and or indirect characterization. When the author introduces characters directly, he or she is telling the audience. When the author introduces a character indirectly, he or she has the character tell the audience through their actions and dialogue. In the play ‘’ The Crucible’’ author Arthur Miller uses direct and indirect characterization to introduce Reverend Parris, Abigail Williams
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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
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Through the evolution of Revered John Hale, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible shows that people must use real support and evidence rather than an unfair and biased opinion based blindly on religion or faith. During Act III, Mary Warren denounces that Proctor is working with the devil and is forcing her to come to the court. Upon hearing this Judge Hathorn calls for the arrest of John Proctor, based entirely off of his religious belief on witches, and not by any other evidence. Responding to Hathorn’s
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accusations are false. This leads to the question of whether a good name is more important than the truth. It is no secret that a person’s name holds great weight in the town of Salem. The importance of a name can be seen in the characters’ dialogues. Reverend Parris, Abigail’s uncle, is constantly fretting about how the people of Salem view him. He tells Abigail, “Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for
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I believe the movie is better than the scripted play and Arthur Miller’s original text of The Crucible. In my opinion, the movie is a lot easier to understand than the two other versions. I also believe that the movie was a lot more accurate than the scripted play. The actors in the movie had more accurate accents, clothing, and their all around look was closer to what it was actually like back in 1692. Finally, I feel that the movie version was historically more accurate. First, I believe the movie
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What happens when passion is conflicted with responsibility? In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, the antagonist is faced with an obstacle between revenge for the protagonist and his duties for the town, as a doctor. Hawthorne uses Roger Chillingworth’s deceptive relationships to illustrate how sin conquers and corrupts an individual. In addition Chillingworth’s vengeful passion overcomes his responsibilities for Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale throughout the novel. When
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Warren then enters into the house saying that fourteen people have been put in jail and will be hung if they do not confess to witchcraft. John admits that he knows that Abigail and the rest of the girls are faking and Elizabeth says he must go into Salem and tell the court that he knows the truth. John hesitates because he will have to confess about the affair if
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Unconditional John Proctor, 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
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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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