The character I chose to do my essay on is Rev. Parris. He was the Reverend of Salem and was one of the first people to start blaming witchcraft. He is untrustworthy, mischievous, and a liar. Those three things will be shown and conveyed by the end of the story.
In The Crucible, Rev. Parris lies about a lot of things which is to help him and to help others. One example of this is, “And what shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest?”(Miller 9). He lied by saying he only seen the girls dancing and not doing anything else. He did that because he wanted to save his good name in Salem. Another example is “I have fought three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now…”(Miller
In The Crucible, Rev. Parris lies about a lot of things which is to help him and to help others. One example of this is, “And what shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest?”(Miller 9). He lied by saying he only seen the girls dancing and not doing anything else. He did that because he wanted to save his good name in Salem. Another example is “I have fought three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now…”(Miller