Thesis: The director’s intentions of The Crucible, were to present a slight unrealistic explanation of the Puritan society and culture mainly to attract his audience. This statement can be proven through the plot, characters, and soundtrack.
Through the plot of The Crucible, it shows a main idea of fear, a fear of one’s reputation that corrupts the characters to act in a selfish way. In the beginning of the film, it starts off with a young girl, Betty, lying in her bed unable to move. Betty became ill because it portrays a force of darkness coming over her for the act of witchcraft her and the girls performed the night before. George Waller states, “Now they that frequent Promiscuous Dancings, or that send their Children unto…It has been proved that such a practice is a Scandalous Immorality...(Hollitz, 30)” This shows a true idea of Puritans because witchcraft was completely profane and being hung or overcame by the Devil was how serious their consequences were.
The portrayal of Betty in this scene shows that the film has already started out as an unrealistic idea …show more content…
The music seemed soft at happy parts and loud at tense parts and that is one main thing the soundtrack should do for a film. Though, the music came in at some awkward points as I was watching the film and kind of disrupted from what was happening for me in the film. For example, during the end, I believe it is Act III, while Abigail is pretending to yell to the Devil and Tituba is yelling at her to stop, the music comes in and out at times where maybe there just needs to be a silence. This would add to the emotions of what the characters are going through. When I think of Puritan society in a courtroom like in this scene, I imagine everyone sitting straight up and serious with some silence. The music makes it chaotic because it should be a serious moment with deep thought to what the characters are
Through the plot of The Crucible, it shows a main idea of fear, a fear of one’s reputation that corrupts the characters to act in a selfish way. In the beginning of the film, it starts off with a young girl, Betty, lying in her bed unable to move. Betty became ill because it portrays a force of darkness coming over her for the act of witchcraft her and the girls performed the night before. George Waller states, “Now they that frequent Promiscuous Dancings, or that send their Children unto…It has been proved that such a practice is a Scandalous Immorality...(Hollitz, 30)” This shows a true idea of Puritans because witchcraft was completely profane and being hung or overcame by the Devil was how serious their consequences were.
The portrayal of Betty in this scene shows that the film has already started out as an unrealistic idea …show more content…
The music seemed soft at happy parts and loud at tense parts and that is one main thing the soundtrack should do for a film. Though, the music came in at some awkward points as I was watching the film and kind of disrupted from what was happening for me in the film. For example, during the end, I believe it is Act III, while Abigail is pretending to yell to the Devil and Tituba is yelling at her to stop, the music comes in and out at times where maybe there just needs to be a silence. This would add to the emotions of what the characters are going through. When I think of Puritan society in a courtroom like in this scene, I imagine everyone sitting straight up and serious with some silence. The music makes it chaotic because it should be a serious moment with deep thought to what the characters are