The Crucible What is a crucible? Well, a crucible is a situation of severe trial, or which in different elements interact, leading to the creation of something. In the play The Crucible, there is a popular trail in the town of Salem about witchcraft. One of the characters Elizabeth Proctor, who is married to John Proctor, is a honest woman who has never lied in her life. Her husband John Proctor, lives on a farm with her on the outskirts of salem, but has had an affair with the servant Abigail a couple months back. Once the rumor witchcraft gets out, Reverend Hale who is a young minister from Beverly who prides himself on being an expert in witchcraft comes to Salem to attempt to put an end to the rumors. Elizabeth Proctor was young women probably in her early thirties married to John Proctor. They lived out on a farm outside of Salem. She had just fired Abigail there servant a couple months ago because she had an affair with John. She forgives him by saying, ¨I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man.¨(1064) Elizabeth has also never told a lie, but in the play she tells her first lie and it is a very costly lie. Elizabeth is accused of witchcraft by Abigail, so John goes to the court to try to get his wife back. He then tells Judge Danforth that Abigail had an affair …show more content…
The reader knows this because he tells his servant Mary Warren that he doesn’t want her to keep going to Salem when he says”You will not go to court again, Mary Warren.”(1065) John tries to not get involved until his wife is accused and sent to jail. At the end of Act 2 he says “I will fall like an ocean on that court.”(1078) He then goes to court and does everything in his power to get his wife back. His consequences ended up getting himself accused and eventually hung because he wouldn't confess to being a