Haleigh Parks
Mrs. Swenson
Final Essay
15 Dec. 2017
A Real Tragic Hero
“The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller is a play based on the witch trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The play opens with a character named Reverend Parris who finds his daughter Betty Parris, his niece Abigail Williams, and other girls from the village of Salem dancing in the woods. After the girls are discovered, word spreads across the town of their behavior and the sudden illness of Betty, who is found in her bed unable to wake up or speak. Which give off implications to people of the village that there may be witchcraft in Salem. As the girls are questioned about their behavior, a long string of lies is eventually strung out due to Abigail and …show more content…
He becomes more of an important character throughout the play as he grows more involved with the Abigail and the girls’ claims. Which leads another character to become tangled up in the story named John Proctor. A man who lives with his wife and children who happened to have an affair with Abigail Williams that put a strain on his marriage with his wife Elizabeth Proctor. As word reaches over all of Salem of witchcraft, John grows suspicious and investigates for himself as he speaks to Abigail outside of the church. As more claims are made, along with multiple accusations of townspeople being witches, both John Proctor and Reverend Hale have more character development. Giving off traits and elements in the play that could consider them to be tragic heroes. But although Reverend Hale has elements from the play that make him …show more content…
In act two, scene four of “The Crucible” Elizabeth is accused of using witchcraft on Abigail by pushing a sewing pin into a doll. Which leads to Abigail stabbing herself with a sewing pin as proof of Elizabeth’s witchcraft. This leads the Cheever to arrive with a warrant and arrest Elizabeth in her own home. Both John and Elizabeth denied the claim of Elizabeth being a witch or that the doll ever belonged to her. But neither the Cheever or the warrant were convinced, leading them to arrest Elizabeth in front of John and their two sons. As Elizabeth is taken away, John confronts Marry about doll and how it got into the house. Marry eventually says that Abigail gave her the doll during a court meeting but tries to deny anything and everything about the truth. John loses his temper and yells at Marry in anger claiming and demands that Marry needs to tell the truth about Abigail and the rest of the girls. He finds himself angrily trying to persuade Marry to tell the judges of the courthouse that there is no witchcraft so that Elizabeth and the other accused villagers could be let go. This shows John to start his ascend in becoming the play’s tragic hero as he is enraged by all the girls’ acts of claiming that the majority of Salem were witches that walked with the devil. John is also shown that he will not let Abigail’s hatred
Mrs. Swenson
Final Essay
15 Dec. 2017
A Real Tragic Hero
“The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller is a play based on the witch trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The play opens with a character named Reverend Parris who finds his daughter Betty Parris, his niece Abigail Williams, and other girls from the village of Salem dancing in the woods. After the girls are discovered, word spreads across the town of their behavior and the sudden illness of Betty, who is found in her bed unable to wake up or speak. Which give off implications to people of the village that there may be witchcraft in Salem. As the girls are questioned about their behavior, a long string of lies is eventually strung out due to Abigail and …show more content…
He becomes more of an important character throughout the play as he grows more involved with the Abigail and the girls’ claims. Which leads another character to become tangled up in the story named John Proctor. A man who lives with his wife and children who happened to have an affair with Abigail Williams that put a strain on his marriage with his wife Elizabeth Proctor. As word reaches over all of Salem of witchcraft, John grows suspicious and investigates for himself as he speaks to Abigail outside of the church. As more claims are made, along with multiple accusations of townspeople being witches, both John Proctor and Reverend Hale have more character development. Giving off traits and elements in the play that could consider them to be tragic heroes. But although Reverend Hale has elements from the play that make him …show more content…
In act two, scene four of “The Crucible” Elizabeth is accused of using witchcraft on Abigail by pushing a sewing pin into a doll. Which leads to Abigail stabbing herself with a sewing pin as proof of Elizabeth’s witchcraft. This leads the Cheever to arrive with a warrant and arrest Elizabeth in her own home. Both John and Elizabeth denied the claim of Elizabeth being a witch or that the doll ever belonged to her. But neither the Cheever or the warrant were convinced, leading them to arrest Elizabeth in front of John and their two sons. As Elizabeth is taken away, John confronts Marry about doll and how it got into the house. Marry eventually says that Abigail gave her the doll during a court meeting but tries to deny anything and everything about the truth. John loses his temper and yells at Marry in anger claiming and demands that Marry needs to tell the truth about Abigail and the rest of the girls. He finds himself angrily trying to persuade Marry to tell the judges of the courthouse that there is no witchcraft so that Elizabeth and the other accused villagers could be let go. This shows John to start his ascend in becoming the play’s tragic hero as he is enraged by all the girls’ acts of claiming that the majority of Salem were witches that walked with the devil. John is also shown that he will not let Abigail’s hatred