When Mary Warren, servant to John and Elizabeth Proctor and the oldest accuser in the Salem witch trials, is put on trial to defend John Proctor’s wife, she claims, “You’re the Devil’s man” (The Crucible, Act III, 500). Faced with a life and death situation, Mary Warren accuses John Proctor of aligning himself with the Devil to save herself. Many of the citizens of Salem choose to “confess” to witchcraft and accuse others so that they are able to join the more powerful side in court. In a similar situation, John Proctor cries, “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!
The Evolution of Elizabeth Proctor Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is a compelling look at the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Elizabeth Proctor began as doubtful of her husband, John Proctor, but ends up having faith in him in the end. She still believed her husband was still in love with Abigail but Proctor soon proved his love for Elizabeth throughout the play. Elizabeth evolves from a woman who doubts her husband, but then evolves into a woman who risks her life to save her husband. Elizabeth continues to question her husband's faith causing an argument between the two.
In The Crucible, A play about the series of misfortune to the town of Salem Massachusetts in 1692 that is haunted by the Devil, by Arthur Miller. When the people of Salem are accused and hanged for involvement with the Devil. There were character necessary to be accused of witchcraft and their death symbolises multiple things to the play. The three character, John Proctor, Giles Corey and Rebecca Nurse help shape the outcome of the end of the witch trial in Salem. John Proctor’s death symbolizes power to save a man's own name.
In The Crucible, John Proctor the protagonist, becomes a victim of the witch trials when his wife Elizabeth, is accused of witchcraft. In order to free his wife, Proctor must convince Judge Danforth of his wife’s innocence. Judge Danforth does not sign condemnations lightly and takes meticulous inspection of his cases to determine the guilty party. He is also a highly religious man who takes matters between God and men seriously. It is because of Danforth’s dedication to the law and God that Proctor utilizes ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade him.
In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, witchcraft is the only explanation for the odd behaviors of the people in Salem, Massachusetts. Because teenage girls were accusing random citizens of witchcraft, the people were brought to trial and hanged. The girls were responsible for the death of nineteen innocent people. Although it seemed like the young girls were unstoppable, there were some noble people who stepped up and tried to put an end to the witch trials. John Proctor, a highly respected farmer in Salem, made a terrible mistake that ruined his life.
The truth and self salvation dont always coincide. This is shown in The Crucible by most every character, be it an internal or external conflict. Author Arthur Miller shows this himself by writing The Crucible as an allegory to the Red Scare. The main antagonist Abigail Williams shows this many times.
Crucible Summative When reading The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the leading character John Proctor is persuading his wife not to lie. John says “Do that which is good, and no harm shall come to thee”. The Salem Witch Trials were unfair and unjust. There were hanging innocent people that did not confess. Arthur Miller talks about this in The Crucible, an allegory of The Salem Witch Trials.
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953. He wrote this because he wanted to create an allegory. This allegory was to compare a personal matter to one that was affecting many other people. The Crucible sends a universal message about worldwide issues. Miller connected his personal experience to the Witch Trials of 1692.
In 1952 Arthur Miller published a play “The Crucible” which was based on his research of the witch hunts in 1692, where it took place in Salem, Massachusetts. The play, though, was more, than a recollection of tragic medieval events, it was an allegory of the 1950’s red hunt by a Republican U.S senator Joseph McCarthy, where a witch hunt was replaced by a hunt for communists. The Crucible reveals moral and political messages such as an allegory for the greed of power, betrayal, and the courage to stand up to public opinion. This pertains to the history of McCarthy and the House of Un-American activities committee.
The play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller demonstrates the implications of a society in complete chaos over an irrational fear of witchcraft in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. Fear plays an immense role in the way people make their decisions, such as when the characters of Danforth and Mary Warren resort to hypocrisy when no other options remain. Danforth and Mary Warren both embody hypocrisy, as seen when Mary says she cannot lie anymore and then lies when she becomes scared for her life, and Danforth when saying lying will send a person to Hell, but then forcing people to choose between lying and death. Mary Warren exemplifies hypocrisy extraordinarily well in the scene when she and Proctor travel to the courthouse so she can confess that the girls have pretended everything and they never actually saw spirits.
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible portrays the novel of the Salem Witch Trials. These trials affected the citizens of Salem City. Through the character John Proctor, a local farmer, lies/deceit and pride can be depicted. Proctor was married to Elizabeth Proctor. He was hung to death due to his confession of witchery and his affair with Abigail Williams.
The Salem witch trials were a time period when any individual could be accused of witchcraft for numerous reasons. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller focuses on the deviation of the trials and how the town’s most religious and honest members of the community are tried with witchcraft. John Proctor, the town’s most honest man, is accused of being a witch and must decide if he should confess or not. Proctor’s confession will stop the town from rebelling and uphold the reputations of Deputy Governor Danforth and Reverend Parris. Hale also wishes for Proctor’s confession so he does not have to feel responsible if Proctor were to be hanged for his witchcraft accusations.
The Crucible, published in 1953 by Arthur Miller is a very popular book written about the 1692 Salem Witch Trials. While most people use the book to study the Witch Trials, with closer examination it is easy to conclude that it is a direct allegory to the Red Scare and the McCarthy era of 1950s America. An allegory is an extended metaphor in which the characters or objects in the story represent an outside meaning. The Crucible is an allegory to the Red Scare and the McCarthy era drastically by its plot, characters, and the flow and outcome of the court trials. To begin with, The Crucible is an allegory because the plot of the book closely resembles the events that occurred during the Red Scare.
Miller, within The Crucible, uses symbolism creates an effective allegory that shows the connection that it has to McCarthyism. The symbolism used within the play symbolized McCarthy’s accusations and allegations. The doll that is found on Elizabeth Proctor's shelf is considered a traditional symbol of voodoo and witchcraft, “Elizabeth: ‘I never kept no poppets, not since I were a girl.’ Cheever, embarrassed, glancing toward the mantel where sits Mary Warren's poppet: ‘I spy a poppet, Goody Proctor.’ Elizabeth: ‘Oh!
In Arthur Miller 's play The Crucible, false accusations and fear are used to imprison and kill many people accused of being witches. In this way, The Crucible stands as an allegory for McCarthy 's communist hunt, during which many people were also killed and imprisoned due to accusations of communism. By comparing McCarthyism to the Salem Witch Trials, Miller is able to communicate that people should not conform to societal trends because these trends may be misleading and cause innocent people to get hurt. Many characters in The Crucible serve as allegories to McCarthy 's communist hunt, specifically Abigail Williams, Giles Corey, and Betty Parris.
