Book Report On The Crucible

Decent Essays
The crucible is all based on a play in Massachusetts. In the Crucible they are strict on witchcraft. There wasn’t a problem till one day when they found a girl named abigail and her 3 other little girls and they were dancing around a pot in the woods. Dancing around a pot in the woods people call that witchcraft but what really happened was Abigail was trying to get a rid of Elizabeth only so she can have Proctor to herself.
Proctor is a farmer from this town and Abigail is so inlove with Proctor. Know one new Proctor had an affair with Abigail. The one day they were all in the house when they noticed Betty wouldn’t talk or move they all thought a spirit got to her and after they heard that they all blamed Tituba. They blamed her because she

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Crucible Power Essay The Crucible by Arthur Miller is based off the witch trials in Salem Massachusetts around the time of 1692. The Salem witch trials were trials against many people in Salem who were accused of using witchcraft. In The Crucible there was a very important theme which is power. Power had a great amount of influence on the story and the character’s in it. It is noticed that the power in which certain people possessed, or didn't possess, went hand in hand with their reputation.…

    • 501 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Greed and Revenge The Crucible by Arthur Miller is about people in Salem being accused of witchcraft. Abigail works for Elizabeth and John Proctor. Then, Elizabeth fires Abigail because of Abigail displeasing her and her husband. Later on, Abigail, accuses Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife, of being a witch so she can be with John Proctor.…

    • 596 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Crucible by Arthur Miller provides a historical fiction account of the Salem witch trials. The play, written in the 1950’s, has many similarities to the McCarthyism that swept across the United States at the time. Arthur Miller uses many different literary elements to tell the story of the trials including Irony, Allusions and Archetypes. One element used in The Crucible is Irony. “Irony is a literary technique that involves a difference between appearance and reality, expectations and actions, and meaning and intention.…

    • 1096 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This made Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife, a prime target for Abigail Williams. John and Abigail had an affair in the past, but now he rejects her and is trying his best to prove to his wife that he only wants her. Once Abigail accuses Elizabeth, she is arrested by the court just like everyone else who has been accused. John Proctor does his best to save her, but he ends up by himself in jail and eventually being taken to the gallows. All at the same time, Elizabeth has been released from jail because she is pregnant and Abigail has…

    • 946 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Act One, Abigail Williams and John Proctor encounter each other in Betty’s room. While talking, Abigail’s flirts begin to taunt John, forcing him to directly face his sin. John wants nothing to do with her, and while angrily accepting his sin, John defends his wife, Elizabeth. John Proctor then attempts to leave, but Abigail quickly jumps in his path and directly states how she really feels for him.…

    • 653 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Massachusetts women were accused of being witches, for vengeance and were put to death after doing nothing wrong. The Crucible is a book about a group of girls lead by a devious girl named Abigail, who start a crazy movement in which everyone is being accused of witchcraft. John Proctor is a hypocrite in the beginning of the book but does not realize his hypocrisy until after the emotional wall he has built was broken down because of the witch trials. John Proctor is a hypocrite in the beginning of the book and doesn't hold himself to the same standards that he does others. After Hale has entered Proctors house he starts accusing him “In the book of record that Mr. Parris keeps, I note that you are rarely in church on Sabbath Day… Twenty-six time in seventeen month sir…” Hale accuses Proctor of not going to church enough and Proctor denies it.…

    • 550 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller. It is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. This play is about the witch trials that took place in Salem during this time period. At the beginning of the play Abigail Williams is in the woods with Betty Parris, Tituba, and some other girls from the town doing witchcraft. Rev. Parris discovers the girls in the woods and suspects witchcraft.…

    • 655 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Abigail’s Unspoken Innocence In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, written in 1953 explains the mass hysteria of the Salem witch trials. The play took place in Salem, Massachusetts; a small puritan town. One night a group of young girls decided to go dancing in the woods; one of which was the 17 year-old Abigail Williams. In the Puritan Religion, dancing is considered a sin, so when Abby’s uncle discovered them he was appalled.…

    • 876 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller and was set in Salem, Massachusetts. In the beginning of the play a group of girls are caught dancing in the woods; which is prohibited by their beliefs. They know they will get in huge trouble if they admit they were dancing so they claim they were possessed by members of the community trying to initiate them into witchcraft. Since witchcraft is punishable by hanging, judges are brought in from out of town to determine if the people accused are guilty. In the beginning only a select few were accused but as the play continues the tally goes up to over 100 people in the jails.…

    • 521 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    (109). This leads to Proctor’s public confession of his lust with Abigail and explains that Abigail is trying to kill his wife. The audience is given a sense of concern when all of the pride that he was trying to cling to was diminished the moment he explained the act to the court. This concern is placed in the play in order to give a deeper connection between the audience and the hero. Proctor wants nothing more than to help his wife; the audience is capable of understanding the sacrificing of oneself for the care of a loved…

    • 1084 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    If Proctor stepped up and told the town of Salem that Abigail and the girls were just “sporting” the whole Witch hunt could have been avoided. Because of Stubbornness and Pride being portrayed he let his reputation get in the way. Guilt played a role by after committing to the sin of adultery he realizes that the only way to come clean is to commit of having an affair with Abigail Williams in order to save everything he lived for, but realizes it is too late. Through Proctor’s flaws he is considered the tragic hero in which died as and honest and heroically…

    • 1564 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Accuracy Of The Crucible

    • 1144 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller in 1952, tells of the Salem Witch Trials and what the Puritan people endured. The story mainly focuses on the accusers, afflicted, and the accused showing how they got away with what they stated to the court as well as how the accused plead their innocence. The Crucible follows very distinct parts of the Salem Witch Trials, some of which are very accurate, and others which are morphed to fit the storyline. Miller changes the details or leave them out in order to make The Crucible more logical and understanding to the reader on top of making it more interesting to add to the plot. .Although…

    • 1144 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    ‘The Crucible’ is a play, written by Arthur Miller and takes place in Massachusetts in 1692. The play is about a little village which is called Salem and how the once peaceful village destroys itself because of the witch trials. There are lots of different characters who accuse each other of witchcraft or who want to protect the village. A very important part of the story is the relationship between a man named John Proctor and his wife, because he has an affair with another woman, called Abigail. At the end there is a destroyed village and many dead people.…

    • 1032 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Abigail’s Vengeance The witch trials in 1692 were one of the darkest periods in the United States History. The play The Crucible by Arthur Miller takes place during the time of the Salem Witch Trial in Massachusetts. In the trials, many innocent people are being accused of being a witch by bunch of girls hiding a secret of their leader, Abigail Williams. Throughout the story, Abigail Williams wants revenge on Goody Proctor because of her jealousy toward her husband, John Proctor which would lead into using too much her power.…

    • 952 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    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.…

    • 1637 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays