Compare&Contrast The movie “Just Ask My Children” and “The Crucible” are similar to each other in many ways. In “The Crucible’, the girls did not want to get in trouble for dancing in the forest and conjuring spirits so when it came to the courtroom they started blaming other people .
John Garrett Rankin October 13, 2015 English III, 4th Hour Dr. Willis The Crucible The Crucible is a sensational piece of literature that was recreated in many forms. The movie The Crucible has many similarities and differences from the play version. They both portray the story very well no matter their differences.
Have you ever read a book, and thought this would be a wonderful movie? Well, that’s not always the case due to when someone watches a movie that’s based on a book, nine times out of ten they come home disappointed. Although, in certain cases, the book and the movie come close to being the same. The crucible play and movie are fairly similar in numerous aspects and one could watch the movie and understand the main points of the play.
The movie “The Crucible” was based on the book written by Arthur Miller. It was basically an exact copy of the book and its layout nearly perfectly followed the book. But while the movie and book possess numerous similarities they possess a lot of differences. Though the differences between them don't change the plot of the story, the scenes in the movies do add more dramatic effect. There were differences in the setting of the book, the characters, and as well as a few scenes that were contrasting with the movie itself.
There are two different interpretations of “The Crucible,” the play in the literature book and the film directed by Nicholas Hytner. These two versions of of the play are both about the same general idea, but they have differences. The movie has some details that aren't in the book. For example, when the girls were dancing in the woods. They mentioned it in the book, but in the movie they actually showed them dancing.
In both The Crucible and Twelve Angry Men the theme of fragility of justice is shown. Fair justice does not exist, when your life is put on the line because of accusations or because of your supposed actions, your faith is not decided by you, but by the decisions of others. Fragility of justice is the most evident theme in The Crucible and Twelve angry men because the faith of others is decided solely by a jury, with no consent to the accused. In the crucible fragility of justice is showed when Abigail Williams starts accusing people of being associated with the devil.
The two comparing stories are talking about how 38 people watched a man murder a woman without calling for help in The dying Girl that no one Helped, and 19 people dying in the Crucible. The people watching Catherine get murdered provides true reflection why there's problems in the world with their attitude towards people. The thesis statement is In order to stop people murdering other people than you need to call for help instead of watching them doing that to other people, be a grown person and call for help. The similarities between the two stories is that People was being murdered. In the story “the dying girl that no one helped”, over 38 people watched the lady die without helping the lady.
Many times it has been said that if people learn from their mistakes they are doomed to repeat them. Such is the case throughout history. There are many different examples of this, but one example is the blatant similarities between the witch hunts in Salem Massachusetts and the era of McCarthyism. When looking at either one of these events separately it is hard to believe that they could have actually happened, not only once but, twice. If one takes the time to look at both events simultaneously they are able to make many comparisons and enable numerous similarities be seen.
When in conversation, statistically speaking when someone is lying, they won’t make eye contact with a person they’re talking to. In this essay, I’m going to go over the differences and similarities between John Proctor and Abigail Williams from the book “The Crucible”. This paper will contain the differences in personality, emotions, and actions they take. Likewise, it will also contain similarities in these listed traits. To start off I’ll begin with their differences in personality.
We often, as people, look back on the past and think that stuff like that doesn’t happen now. That is not the case though, there are many similarities between the past and the world we live in now. While the environment and technology may change and be different the people don’t. One of these past situations is the Salem Witch Trials. We often look back on the decisions made by people in this time and say nothing like that would ever happen.
Then finally, the director's craft or style of the film. Those are only some of the differences in the film and there is plenty more to do but, this will do. Let's start with setting first. The setting in the two films might be in the same time period but, they are not in the same setting.
Both Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” are both books that present us with the theme of ‘men of conscience’. John Proctor and Atticus Finch, both fictional characters from the books, are considered to be ‘men of conscience’. A man of conscience is a man aware of the moral and ethical judgements he has a strong desire to do the right thing whenever possible. The life of these men is ruled by their desire to seek the truth and justice in the situations around them; these traits are displayed in both of the characters throughout both the novel and the play.
A story is a written work used to entertain, provide knowledge and understanding, and to captivate an audience. In today’s society, several movies are based off of novels. The reader expects the movie and the book to be replicas, but that rarely happens. Most of the time, movies have different locations within the setting, while adding in scenes and characters to a story line to further tell the story. Due to this, the exposure of vivid details allows the audience to receive more knowledge from the work.
Critique of Book Reviews “The Witches”, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Stacey Schiff, retells the meticulous and disturbing history of the Salem Witch trials that struck Massachusetts in 1692. Amy Gentry from the Chicago Tribune, Lara Feigel a writer for The Guardian, and Buzzy Jackson a Globe Correspondent with the Boston Globe comply that Schiff turned this spine-chilling tale into a fantasy that not only made it clearer of the events but, also uses the story as a cautionary account of our own human tendencies. “The Witches” is a tale of bloodthirsty spirits that are still haunting American soil, according to Amy Gentry. “Righteous ignorance and casuistic self-interest are the twin forces that propelled the trials to catastrophic
In my opinion there are a lot of comparisons between the film and the book, but there are also differences between them too, but also they have impacted the audience in both the film and the