In the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller his character Reverend Parris goes through many conflicts during the play. The conflicts that Parris goes through causes him to change and is overall a dynamic character when it comes to it. Through acts one through four his attitude changes toward everything and he becomes a different person. In act one and two of The Crucible it starts out in Parris’s house where his daughter Betty lies inert on her bed.
The following will discuss why Reverend Parris believed that many woman and girls were witches. Reverend Parris is very worried about his daughter because he finds her dancing with other girls in the woods. He doesn’t want to believe that his daughter is a witch or accuse her of being a witch either. That means there is witchcraft in his house and that would not look good for having that in the reverends house.
Reverend Samuel Parris played a significant role in the Salem witch trials, and many historians believe that he is the most responsible for the hysteria that swept through the town. There are several reasons why Parris is considered to be the most responsible for the witch trials. First, Parris was a divisive figure in the community. He was a strict Puritan minister who was known for his fire-and-brimstone sermons.
(72). It also appears that he cares more for his reputation in the town more than the well being of his own daughter. He states to Abigail that he wants to truth and he doesn't want anything contradicting his name. Reverend Parris focuses more on his
Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a small village in 1692. You are so conceited with yourself that you allow your friends and neighbors to be accused of witchcraft. Yet, you knew a secret that could save the lives of everyone. You decide not to tell the truth because it could blacken your name. This is what was encountered by many in The Crucible.
On the other hand, Reverend Parris is worried about his reputation as well because Abigail is his niece, and he can't even control her; but yet he is looked to as the authority of the town of Salem and everyone looks at him for direction and guidance. “ I must Call reverend Hale to come to Salem” Parris decides to call in Hale for help and guidance because he has no control over the girls. This shows just how badly people in Salem were willing to go to keep their reputations, making it one of the major themes displayed in the
Another example of Reverend Parris’s greed was seen when John said, “Mr. Parris, you are the first minister ever did demand the deed to this house”. Parris’s jealousy not only caused himself anger but also gave him a bad name with a certain faction. His fear of being overthrown by them partially caused him to ask Reverend Hale to come to Salem, which escalated the problems (Miller, 193,
Reverend Parris explains to his niece 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 me in the parish, you compromise my very character” (Miller 36). Reverend Parris explains to niece Abigail that she cannot lie to him about what happened in the woods because if it comes out that Abigail was lying his good name could be jeopardized. Reverend Parris says how hard it was to get the respect from the people of Salem and their respect for him could be demolished by this thing coming
We often seen someone is only care about himself, they don’t care about others even their family and they always have excuse of it. Reverend Parris is a kind of this person. “The Crucible” is about the Salem witch trials. Starting with several young girls claim to be afflicted by witchcraft and then accuse people in the town of witchcraft. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller shapes Parris’s character as a very selfish person, and everything he did was to keep his good reputation in the village and to get rid of anyone against him, which drives him mad.
In The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, he writes about a story of witches in Salem, Massachusetts. The play is about a group of young girls who control the village with the fake pretense of having seen the devil and who he has worked with John Proctor and Reverend Parris are two characters within the play who both have similar experiences to each other. The story teaches us that different actions lead to different circumstances. Reverend Parris is the uncle of abigail, one of the girls in the wood who chanted.
Reverend Parris was the uncle of Abigail Williams and all he wanted was to have a good reputation in the community. At the start of the Crucible the girls were dancing around a fire in the woods in the middle of the night which was perceived as conjuring spirits during the salem witch trials times. Reverend Parris was in the woods and saw the ceremony going on and when the girls got caught they scattered around. Normally that would be reported immediately and the punishment to the girls would be getting whipped. To keep his reputation reverend Parris kept it to himself until the very end of the movie when he reluctantly told governor Danforth because reverend Hale and John Proctor brought it up.
Reverend Parris is a character in the story called “The Crucible” which is written by Arthur Miller. Reverend Parris is a important character in “The Crucible” and plays a big role in how the story plays out. He is a very smart man and has a okay reputation with the people in salem. He has three major character traits that sticks out throughout the story that makes him make the decisions he does.
Parris is a very self-centered man and is very embedded in his place in the community. He is a preacher for the church of Salem and his niece and daughter have been “bewitched” or so he thinks. Parris believes what he does is just and that no one should oppose him. This is also why he refuses to let news about his niece and daughter get out, he doesn’t want people to overthrow his position. Parris is a static character due to his nature of unchanging personality wise throughout the crucible, he is always self-centered.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, had a focus on two characters and their lives during the great depression . Lennie who has a mentality of a five year old, and George Lennie's friend and caretaker. George has been thinking about leaving Lennie. Although Lennie is difficult to take care of George should stay with him. A character named Crooks tells Lennie about what people are going to do to him without George around.
Reverend Parris shows the first example of the importance of reputation in the Salem. In Act I, lines 63-66, Parris discovers the girls dancing in the forest; he recognizes the threat of witchcraft that has formed in his
