In the Crucible, Arthur Miller uses the characterization of Elizabeth Proctor to portray that once a person’s trust is broken, it can never be gained back fully. For example, when John Proctor came home to his wife, Elizabeth, he “gets up, goes to her, kisses her. She receives it.” (48) Miller uses this as indirect characterization, as Elizabeth only receives his kiss instead of kissing her husband back. She knows that he had an affair with Abigail, so Elizabeth still does not trust him completely.
Og Mandino once stated, “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” This quote is saying that you will never fail if you have enough determination. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible displays that John Proctor is driven by determination. Considering John is motivated by determination, he tries to show the people of Salem that the witch trials are artificial. He also had an affair with Abigail Williams and is trying to make things right with his wife.
Abigail and Elizabeth as Foils In the play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, the two main female characters are foils. They are opposites in the way they love, lie, and live. Elizabeth Proctor is married to John Proctor and Abbigail Williams had an affair with John Proctor. They both love John and are attracted to him but in very different ways.
The times back then were terrible. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1953 about The Salem Witch Trials of 1692.McCarthyism was the “witch hunt” for the communist in 1953.the parallels between The Crucible and McCarthyism are naming names,lack of proof ,and reststance. The first reason they are parallel is because of naming names. Hollywood director Elia Kazan went in front of the HUAC twice. The first time he did not confess and names.
7) Were there any instances in the timeline where something could have been done to prevent Amy’s death? If so, when? • When Amy told her coworker she was beaten with a bat some type of authority should have been contacted immediately • When Vincent called Amy’s job repeatedly, they should have called the police and reported him for harassment • Vincent came down to Amy’s job and started an argument with her which could become trespassing and he may have been arrested • When Amy went to her home the final time to pick up items for her children, there should have been at least two people who went in with her. Everyone knew he owned a gun and her going into that home was honestly a huge mistake.
Is personal integrity more important than survival? The dictionary defines integrity as the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. The Salem witch trials in history shows how men and women had to choose between their own morals and their faith. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible the people show their value of personal integrity over life while maintaining their reputation and good name to pass down to generations to come. Giles Corey is a man of integrity who cares for his family and friends in the community.
Crucible Characterization In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Abigail Williams is indirectly characterized as suspicious and as a threat. The play tells the tragic story of three girls in Salem Massachusetts in 1692 pretending to be witches, and accusing innocent town citizens of being witches and being prosecuted. In the beginning of the play, Abigail is questioned by Reverend Parris numerous times asking, what the girls were doing in the woods late at night, and how and why her daughter could not wake up. After asking numerous times Abigail answers, “ We did dance, uncle..., Betty was frightened
Ryker Moses Mr.G English 11A 16 December 2022 Arthur and his Crucible There are many reasons why people will write a play, book, or movie. For example, some people draft books or plays to escape their problems or to relax themselves. Aruther Miller is no exception to this principle. Many aspects of Mr. Millers’ life influenced his writing of his book the Crucible.
Act 1 opens on in bedroom in Reverend Samuel Parris’ house in the spring of 1692. Parris’ daughter, 10-year-old Betty, is in a deep sleep resulting from an unknown illness, and Parris is kneeling next to her bed, praying. Tituba, the middle-aged slave from Barbados; tries to check on Betty, but Reverend Parris immediately kicks her out of the room. Soon after, Abigail Williams ,Parris’ 17-year-old niece, enters the room. She informs him that Susanna Walcott, another teenager, has come with a message from the doctor.
When I was in 7th grade, I had played football for the school. One day during summer camp, we were going over plays and positions and one play someone had said something to me. During the next play I was angry at the kid so I went directly for him. I dropped my shoulder and hit him hard and he laid flat like a pancake on the turf.
What has been the most difficult challenge you have ever faced and ultimately accomplished? Ronald Reagan once said, “Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. The Marines don't have that problem”. I was an active duty marine for eight years and I’m sure that any other marine that has served can agree with me when I say; The Crucible, is the most difficult challenge Marines have to face during their time in boot camp. The challenge lasts an excruciating fifty-six hours that are broken down into three days, and has a total of fifty-one miles that have to be brutally hiked before graduating boot camp.
K. Davis 27 January 2023 CCR English III Block 4 The Crucible is a movie about the Salem Witch trials, But there is a deeper meaning behind the movie. The hidden meaning in The Crucible is how easy it is to twist the truth. The meaning is portrayed throughout the movie in many ways and situations. All the situations come together in the end to prove this.
Body 1 In Act 1, Parris's home, Reverend Hale comes to Salem to discover the strange behavior that Reverend Parris's daughter is experiencing and gives a diagnosis on Betty. He only uses books all about witchcraft to cure her and to find others who are practicing witchcraft. As Parris helps him take the heavy books, he comments, "My, they’re heavy"(Miller 24). "They must be; they are weighted with authority" (Miller 24).
The events of The Crucible are drastic, yet the characters can extrapolate everyday themes from them. This means that The Crucible forces characters into an extreme situations that characters were forced to learn lessons from. Lessons learned in this event were fairly simple for such drastic situations. They were lessons that someone could learn in an everyday situation, yet it took an extraordinary situation for the characters to learn them. One lesson that was learned in this play was that honesty is not always the best policy.
Putting you life in the hands of a jury and a judge is something that doesn’t happen much today, but it happened to may people in the 1680’s. Their lives were put into another person’s hands because they were accused for something they didn’t even do. Most of the time these people went into the trials pleading innocent, and then the judge was persuaded to sentence them to death. They did this because they thought that the defendant was lying. This is a perfect example of a crucible.
