The Crucible film was very well made and the actors that were in it portray their characters very well. You could tell that the actors put a lot of time and effort into making sure that the people watching the movie will understand what it was like for them. The film itself sums up everything and is for the most part just like the book but by it being the film it helps you understand the concept or what is going on since you are watching it on a movie. The film was very similar to the play but then at the same time, the movie was probably better because you could understand the meaning of what was happening.…
“Listen . . .” Everyone froze. “I thought I heard something,” he whispered. “It might have just been the old house creaking. But let’s turn off the lights and see if anything moves.”…
I look outside to see ghosts wailing and flying, one was crying over the fact the he couldn’t help some lady on the street. I try to scream but nothing comes. “Window? Window!” Whall’s voice is filled with worry.…
So, I guess this house isn’t haunted.” Eddie laughed. “You don’t see ghost silly, they’re invisible. You can only hear them.” “That’s not true,” Ophelia said.…
Annotated Bibliography: Bonnet, Jean-Marie. “Society vs. the Individual in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.” English Studies 63.1 (1982): 32-36 Bonnet argues that Miller fully contradicts himself in his standpoint between the individual and society in the Crucible. The play alternates between being about an individual’s self-discovery and being about a community’s uproar. Bonnet illustrates how Miller constantly forces the characters to deny themselves at the sack of the community’s unity.…
In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the people of Salem are accusing others of witchcraft. During the play several people were realizing that what was happening was not right, some did speak out but many did nothing to try and stop it. There are also many times in the real world this has occurred. An example of a person doing what is right when others wouldn't is when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man.…
The definition of a ‘crucible’ is a “severe test of patience and belief, or trial”. The title of the play is symbolic to Arthur Miller’s four-act play, The Crucible. In this play, innocent lives are put on trial when Abigail Williams and her friends accuse the men and women of crimes they did not commit. Three characters that experience the greatest change in the play include John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor and Reverend John Hale. John Proctor is a very-hardworking farmer who is dignified and very cautious.…
The smell of smoke enters the cave and I'm instantly woken up by it. The sound of the kookaburra rings throughout the bush land. My first thought was that Uncle Bardy was starting a fire for a smoking ceremony and I raced outside to join. I'm surprised when I see a burnt out fire and birds scavenging around looking for food. In the distance I see where the smell of smoke is coming from.…
What makes a character a protagonist? Is it the length of time a reader spends with him or her? Or is it a character’s tendency for doing good? In correct context, the definition of a protagonist includes, “A leading character advocating for a particular cause or belief.” Along with this, a protagonist furthers the plot and allows for continuous movement within the story.…
In The Crucible, John Proctor the protagonist, looks for redemption of his sins. At first, Proctor was full of guilt and doubt after he had committed adultery with Abigail, his former maid. However, as the play progressed, Proctor started down the path of redemption by confronting his sins with his wife. Finally, in the last act, Proctor was able to regain his self-respect and his own forgiveness, finding Proctor’s character change through The Crucible was portrayed in three stages: destitution, progress, and resolution.…
Ruble of the Truth Dumbledore once said, "The truth, it is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution” (J.K. Rowling). People will find throughout their lives what is true is what decides their fate. The truth keeps people wondering, scared, awake, confused, and even alive (or not). In the past what people said is what built the future, but what is not true will eventually show in the repercussions of choices they make. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, truth is a factor that people cannot control; therefore, it seems to decides the fate of the prosecuted and the people around them.…
Death is almost always perceived in such a pessimistic manner because some people believe life has much more opportunity to be content. This type of belief is shown in The Crucible through Reverent Hale’s eyes when he desperately attempts to convince Elizabeth Proctor to tell her husband to choose life over a death sentence of lechery, stating that “life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it” (Miller 122). While this statement may be true when talking about a person living in a more accepting society, the characters in The Crucible unfortunately live in a society where people mostly care about their devotion to God, and in the meantime, live off their neighbors’ drama just to criticize their…
Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States from 1901-1909, view for the nation became known as the Rooseveltian Nation. In Gary Gerstle’s historical monograph called American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century he makes argument as to why the Rooseveltian Nation collapsed. He argued that the collapse was due to “racial antagonism, anti-war protests and cultural revolt” (313). The civic nation of the Rooseveltian Nation collapsed due to the Civil Rights which sought to integrated, civic nation, while the Black Power sought to segregate, racial nation. Gerstle defined Black Power as “a political ideology calling on African American to free their communities and consciousness from white controls” (295).…
The Crucible The Crucible is a play written in 1952 by Arthur Miller. This book relates to what we have studied this semester because it is centered around the Salem Witchcraft Trials that occurred in Massachusetts in 1692. My junior year of high school, we were required to read both the play and the movie and it is something that I will never forget. The scene that always come to my mind when I think of The Crucible is when the opening scene where Tituba and some of the girls are practicing witchcraft around a fire late at night in the middle of the woods. I also think of the end scene in which 19 people were hanged.…
Introduction and Thesis Statement – Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a novel set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Its primary focus is the description of the chaos, struggles and difficulties which arise as a result of the witch trials taking place during this time. The Crucible has been referred to as a “Morality” play. A morality play is a drama in which the characters personify qualities or concepts such a having virtues or vices and generally involves a conflict between right and wrong or good and evil from which a moral lesson may be drawn. There are numerous characters and circumstances in The Crucible that support the assertion that it does indeed represent a morality play.…