The crucible is a 1953 play written by American author, Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partly fictionalized play about the Salem witch trials of 1692. Which is still read up to this date because of the controversy of how people’s reputation change throughout time and how it affects a community. In the beginning of the play Reverend Parris found the girls dancing in the forest, which started the hysteria of the accusation of witchcraft. Abigail Williams and the girls were the first to be accused, but as the play continued it spread to the rest of the citizens, such as John Proctor and Goody Nurse. As the citizens were accused of witchcraft their reputations were questioned. Abigail Williams, Rebecca Nurse, and John Proctor 's reputation
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When John Proctor’s first introduced into the play he carries himself with a lot of dignity and respect. The people in the village don 't see him like a bad person, until some of the people start to wonder what is going on with him and Abigail. We first see this in the play when John Proctor is speaking with his wife, Elizabeth, and the Witch trials are brought up. Elizabeth tells Proctor that he must go into town an testify against Abigail, and testify that she is a fraud. Proctor says he will think on it because he cannot prove what Abigail told him. Elizabeth becomes muddled because Proctor never told her that Abigail and Proctor were alone. Elizabeth no longer wants to think about Proctor and Abigail anymore, she says “Do as you wish, then.” Proctor response to her by saying “Women. I will not have your suspicion no more.” Proctor realizes that Elizabeth knows about him and Abigail, but she does not want to say anything. The private scene between Elizabeth and Proctor is where we first start to see more of the type of character Proctor is, in public he acts as if he’s never done anything wrong in his life, but in the scene with Elizabeth we see that he is hiding something. Proctors reputation takes a turn for the worst in his attempt to disprove abigail. As Abigail and the other girls are in the court, and she is accusing Mary Warrant of being a witch she starts to pray to god. At this moment …show more content…
In this paper I have suggested that the characters reputation, no matter good or bad, has changed throughout the
When John Proctor’s first introduced into the play he carries himself with a lot of dignity and respect. The people in the village don 't see him like a bad person, until some of the people start to wonder what is going on with him and Abigail. We first see this in the play when John Proctor is speaking with his wife, Elizabeth, and the Witch trials are brought up. Elizabeth tells Proctor that he must go into town an testify against Abigail, and testify that she is a fraud. Proctor says he will think on it because he cannot prove what Abigail told him. Elizabeth becomes muddled because Proctor never told her that Abigail and Proctor were alone. Elizabeth no longer wants to think about Proctor and Abigail anymore, she says “Do as you wish, then.” Proctor response to her by saying “Women. I will not have your suspicion no more.” Proctor realizes that Elizabeth knows about him and Abigail, but she does not want to say anything. The private scene between Elizabeth and Proctor is where we first start to see more of the type of character Proctor is, in public he acts as if he’s never done anything wrong in his life, but in the scene with Elizabeth we see that he is hiding something. Proctors reputation takes a turn for the worst in his attempt to disprove abigail. As Abigail and the other girls are in the court, and she is accusing Mary Warrant of being a witch she starts to pray to god. At this moment …show more content…
In this paper I have suggested that the characters reputation, no matter good or bad, has changed throughout the