Abby and Parris Arthur Miller created a play to set a tone and an idea of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. When witches were unknown things and people were terrified of what they could be. This play was based off the communist in the 1950’s and was a way to compare the Salem witch hunt and the communist. During the writing of the Crucible Miller was questioned for the writing of the play. Miller was thought to be committing a sin and was asked to expose all of the people involved in the play.…
Betty Parris could also be considered the person who was most responsible for the chaotic witchcraft situation by the end of act 1 in the Crucible. During the moment when she was rested in bed faking she was in a “coma” the entire focus point of act 1 is in Betty’s bedroom. Arthur Miller paints a picture in this scene “Betty, on the bed, whimpers. Abigail, turns to her at once.”(1097). Betty is worried about what has happened with the situation although Parris, (her father) is not worried about her but of his own reputation.…
The Crucible Character Essay Characters are an important part of every story. They help add interest, conflict, and they basically just keep the story moving along. This story is about a woman named Abigail and her friends accusing people of witchcraft because they want attention. The people of this town start noticing that innocent people are being accused and a man named John stands up and says something about it. The characters Reverend John Hale, Abigail Williams, and Mary Warren are the important characters in this story that help prove the theme that Peer pressure can sometimes be bad.…
Crucible stands for a situation of a severe trial. Many characters were put under a test each character having a different outcome. People act differently when they are put in an uncomfortable or stressful position. Even though the situation these people were placed in, people were able to act rationally and truthful, but in a group of good people, there is bound to be someone who would do deplorable acts. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail Williams is the most despicable character because she runs away from taking responsibility of starting Salem’s witchcraft frenzy, acts irrationally due to jealousy, and she lies about other people committing heinous crimes.…
Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible to show what happened in the Witchcraft Trials and show who is really the protagonist is and who the antagonist is. Abigail Williams, a girl who was accused of witchcraft but she was saying that a woman made her do it. Everyone was believing her so she started to accuse more people. She looks like the protagonist. The reason why is because it looks like she wants attention but she doesn’t get it, so they only way to get it is to fake the sickness.…
The Crucible is a play/story based on real events of the salem witch trials and is written by Arthur miller. In the beginning, Abigail williams is portrayed as good innocent girl. Through the play we realize she is actually a terrible, vindictive person. “I would never hurt Betty, I love her dearly”(25) makes Abigail sound like a good innocent person. But throughout this play we will realize how bad she really is.…
Nothing is permanent but change This quote could be a great definition about the character Reverend Hale in “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. Hale is a very dynamic character, who changed his own beliefs that first appeared to be really strong and defined through all the play. During the story, there’s a great evolution in Reverend Hale, that started feeling a hero who will save Salem from witchcraft but finally, he felt so guilty. When Hale first appeared, he had just arrived in Salem because Parris, Salem’s Reverend, called him to look for any type of witchcraft there as he was considered as an expert of the devil’s world.…
A Fable of Witchcraft “He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.” (Alexander Pope). Arthur Miller proves this point very strongly in his dramatic work, The Crucible. One of the main themes in this story is that of lying and how a simple lie can create chaos, more lies and overreactions. In the tragedy, The Crucible, Arthur Miller suggests that when people tell a lie that the situation can quickly spiral out of control and more lies will unfold to build upon the one already told; as a result of her series of lies, Abigail Williams became so uneasy that she left Salem, proving that liars never win.…
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is considered to be one of the greatest plays of all time. It tells the thrilling story of the Salem witch trials of 1692. Throughout the story many characters are introduced, and each one can be seen changing as the story progresses, be it small changes, or extraordinary ones, that alter the course of the story itself. Reverend Hale is one such character that makes changes that alter the story. At the beginning he truly believes that there are witches running amok in Salem.…
“Maybe our mistakes are what makes our fate.” -Carrie Bradshaw. Throughout reading The Crucible, flaws within each character, and the actions they made based upon those inner flaws, eventually lead to their “downfall”. John Proctor was a highly respected man in the community of Salem, as well as by himself.…
Crucible Essay Submissive. Inferior. Disregarded. 1692 Salem women suffered under such fates, along with the mass hysteria of the notorious Salem witch trials.…
In a small quiet community of Puritans there has been whispers and rumors of the devil possessing women and using them as witches. In the Crucible by Arthur Miller, no one is safe no one is innocent and everyone is guilty unless they beg for forgiveness. Because of a secretive event in the woods one night, many are killed from a simple cry of “witch!” from a manipulative girl. That girl is Abigail the antagonist of the Crucible, because she is constantly trying to get rid of Elizabeth to marry John, she seduces him to leave his wife and she is not afraid to kill anyone to get John.…
Arthur Miller 's The Crucible is a play loosely based on the American society 's hysteria around communism in the 1950s. The play takes place in 1692, where a group of girls accuse others within the town of Salem Massachusetts of witch craft to keep themselves out of trouble after being caught in the woods casting magic with Tituba, a slave, by Reverend Parris. The ring leader of this group is Abigail Williams, a seventeen year old girl who is the ward of Reverend Parris. The girls slowly but surely gain power in the court. Under Abigail 's influence, they use their newfound power to cause the death of over twenty Salem villagers.…
Where the older wives and mother’s were once at the top, Abigail is able to temporarily disrupt the normal social balance. The trials “propel the girls from a position of powerlessness to the pinnacle of importance as "officials of the court" (Bovard OL) The young single girls were always inferior but now their word alone has the power to take a life. It is the older women who were once a step above them on the social ladder who are the majority of the condemned. .“It’s…
To live without mirrors is to live without the self.” The body is enslaved to time and somehow disconnected from the person inside of it. The female protagonist explores the…