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.
Reverend Parris is supposed to be a great Pastor in the little town of Salem; however he continues to be fixated on the belief of witches. The author, Arthur Miller was born in Manhattan in 1915 that has written several popular plays, but focuses on the Witch trails in his play, “The Crucible”. The Crucible focuses many of the witch trails that take place in Salem. The Minister of Salem’s church, Reverend Parris believes in witches after finding his daughter and other girls dancing in the woods. Reverend Parris is extremely paranoid and worries about becoming better known within the community.
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.
In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, a man named Reverend Parris is a representation of all that is twisted and greedy in what is a seemingly positive religion. Parris is a foretold man of God, but realistically illustrates how a man in power wants to progress in his own selfish ideals. This trait is greatly exemplified in his personality, especially in the fact that he is evidenced as one who cannot be trusted, and seeks constant approval of others near him. Parris does change over time, however, from wishing for the advancement of his owns wants, to hoping for the downfall of those against him. Much of how Parris is described is seen in his placement with respect to other characters; he is given such a moral job to highlight to sharp contrast of his presumed actions against his existing ones.
Reverend Parris is a man in his 40’s that is a minister of the town, and lives with his daughter, Betty, and his niece, Abigail, in Salem, Massachusetts. He finds Abigail and Betty in the woods dancing around a fire with Tituba, and practicing what he thinks is witchcraft. As he finds them dancing around the fire and practicing what he thinks is witchcraft, because of his reputation of being the minister of the town, he hopes that no one will find out about what he has seen and potentially ruin his reputation. Throughout The Crucible by Arthur Miller Parris goes through ups and downs with the town and the townspeople. “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 1263).
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.
The play “The Crucible”, opens with a group of girls with a black slave name tituba dancing in the woods naked. While they were dancing they were caught by Reverend Parris. Coming to find out one of the girls, betty, was parris’s daughter. The main character Abigail was also in the mix of girls dancing in the woods naked. Now Abigail is parris niece, and parris starts question her on the activities that went on in the night.
I am Elizabeth Proctor, widow of John Proctor and mother to two children. Reverend Samuel Parris is the Revered of the local church I attend on occasion. The recent events in Salem of the supposed outbreak of witchcraft in the community has left many family heartbroken because of the lies believed in this court. The unjust punishment no, mass murder. I will not blink at this brutality which is due to this man’s carelessness.
In The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, Reverend Parris gains legitimate power because he is a minister in a community where religion is important. As the minister of the church, he gains the respect of the people of the church. By the end of the play, Parris loses his power because people become angry and begin to lose faith in the church. Parris would use legitimate power to influence characters' opinions about people and decisions that were made. He uses his power by relying on his reputation as a man of God to instill fear into people.
Many counterparts can be drawn between good and evil in The Crucible, and Miller’s juxtaposition of the characters shows the audience how one person acting with integrity can influence a society for good, and vice versa. Reverend Parris is an example of somebody who is extremely concerned with his standing in Salem village. He is afraid that when the people hear
Power is something that everyone wants, but is also something that can be detrimental if given to the wrong people. In the play the Crucible, Parris is a Reverend who has a substantial influence over the town. However, when Witchcraft strikes, his true colors are revealed and he appears to care solely for his own self-interests rather than the safety of the people that he is supposed to watch over. Parris is a truly despicable character that continuously shows that power can be a corrupting force. Reverend Parris is an individual who is only concerned with his reputation and authority over Salem.
Abigail told Reverend Parris that they were just dancing and that they didn’t do anything else. However, Reverend Parris didn’t believe her and ask Reverend Hale, an expert on witchcraft, for help. Reverend Parris didn’t want to be accused witchcrafts happening in house so he tried to calm the people of Salem. Later on, Abigail talks to some of the girls and told them that they were only dancing and nothing else and if they didn’t cooperate with her she would murder them. Then John Proctor, a local farmer, came to Reverend Parris’s house and end up alone with Abigail who was blamed and kicked out of John’s house for having affair with him.
Pop Culture Sigmund Freud was a psychologist in the early 1900’s he invented with a theory known as the Oedipus Complex. The Oedipus Complex is when a child has a strong bond with one of there parents of the opposite gender, to the point that parent number two starts to be seen as a threat. Sigmund Freud’s Oedipus Complex is used in many movies, books and TV shows. An example of one of these movies is titled “Snow White a Tale of Terror” directed by Michael Cohn in this movie the Oedipus Complex is depicted in the fact that she has such a strong bond with her father, is jealous of her stepmother for taking his attention away from her, and that she has gone so far as to plot her stepmother 's death. Lily White’s mother dies when her parents carriage crashes.
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.
The play The Crucible is evident from Arthur Miller's famous allegory of the Red Scare, which is set in Salem in 1692, that several people may have been responsible for the alleged witches' executions. But the most responsible party was Reverential Parris. He attempted to cover it up to preserve his job because he was aware that the girls who were accusing him of conjuring and dancing were also guilty of doing nothing. Because he was aware that the "bewitched girls" were faking it by dancing and performing magic tricks in the woods, Reverend Parris is nearly all to blame for the deaths of the accused. Nevertheless, he didn't want them to get in any trouble.
