Women's Role In The Crucible

The Role of Women In The Crucible In The Crucible, women are not treated fairly compared to men. Throughout the play, Miller portrayed the women as insane and sane, morally good and bad. Some women are wild and crazy. Also, women are accused of being witches because of their odd behavior, and dangerous actions that they took in the play. Abigail, Mary Warren, and Elizabeth Proctor are all very strong-minded women. Miller portrays all women as inferior. You will eventually start to see that the men fear the women, since they’re convinced that they are witches. Mary Warren, a maid of John Proctor, is the one who always tries to do right. She worships God, and does her absolute best to be extremely loyal. John Proctor wanted her to charge

Elizabeth knows that John is committing adultery with Abigail, yet she fails to tell anyone of it, protecting their relationship. John and Elizabeth got into a fight over John and Abigail’s brief “moment” together. It started off with Elizabeth saying “You were alone with her?” (50). Then the argument ended with John saying “...You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you..” (52), this is stating that basically John has been keeping Elizabeth in his thoughts and has always thought of her first without doing anything. Yet, John did have an affair with Abigail, so he has no right of being mad at his wife for having any suspicions. Elizabeth is being portrayed in the play as someone who cares about her family and her relationship a lot. Other than Abigail involving her in trials, she is really keeping out of the witch business, and focusing mainly on her and John. Elizabeth and John always seem to be arguing about his affair which isn’t healthy. “John-grant me this. You have a faulty understanding of young girls. There is a promise made in any bed-” Elizabeth said to John, and she’s right (58). Abigail now dwells on what happened, thinking she is getting a chance of replacing Elizabeth and becoming the new Mrs. Proctor, though she is sadly mistaken. Abigail charges Elizabeth Proctor for stabbing her in the stomach with some sort of witchcraft using a poppet, and poking a needle through it. “Why---! The girl is murder! She must be ripped out of this world,” Elizabeth is talking about Abigail in response to hearing that she was being charged for something she wasn’t guilty for (72). This fiasco happened because John Proctor confronted Abigail saying that his wife means heaps to him, they are no more, and he doesn’t really care much about Abigail which