Betty Parris

Crucible, the author brings up religion a number of times. For example, they talk about Puritan and McCarthyism. In the beginning of the book, Betty a 10-year-old girl is in a deep sleep and they think it is because of an illness. Therefore, the family gets a doctor to come in and see Betty but the doctor says he did not find anything physically wrong with Betty. The Doctor tells them that they should start to consider supernatural forces. So, the family is very concerned to here this so they…

The Crucible analytical essay Arthur Miller’s: The Crucible, is a story about the Salem witch trial in which many towns people get accused of witchcraft; however, they are all innocent. Because bad things happen when lies build up, innocent people will hang for crimes they never committed. Abigail and the girls are all caught dancing in the forest, when they get caught they accuse tituba of forcing them to do it. Abigail lies when she says, “She makes me drink blood,”(Miller 160) to throw all…

these trials came to be because of people accusing others to save themselves of being tried in court. The themes of self-preservation and guilt were constant through the whole book. Three characters by the names of Abigail Williams, John Proctor and Parris roles are revolved around these 2 themes. I have picked these three characters to be on the front cover of my movie poster because of not only how much they appear in the book but because of how closely related their character traits are to…

Proctor. Abigail Williams is Parris’s niece and an orphan who is extremely beautiful. The witchcraft accusations start when Parris catches Abigail and the girls dancing in the forest. Edward Murray, a man who got a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, illustrates, “…she is commanding and vain: she is a thief and throughout the play...Abigail’s dominant motive is to destroy Elizabeth…

an 18 year old girl whose uncle(Reverend Parris) is the town’s reverend, has an affair with John Proctor, a 30 year old farmer who is married, when she worked at the Proctor household. The two keep it going until John becomes penetrated by his guilt, Elizabeth finds out and fires Abigail. Ever since this happened, Abigail set out to destroy and kill Elizabeth and take her place by John Proctor’s side. This led her to seek the help of Tituba, Reverend Parris’…

Abigail Williams and her accusations are the quintessence of this principle as shown within the lines of the play. In addition Danforth did not want people to know he was wrong, so he protects himself selfishly by saying witchcraft exists. Moreover, Parris abuses his power selfishly by lying and saying he did not witness witchcraft even though he saw it with his own eyes. To make himself look like he has a good reputation. In its entirety, this shows that the town of Salem is full of egotistical…

Both The Crucible and Good Night and Good Luck are stories about how fear controled people. Even though to some it seemed that they were doing the right thing. Fear is a useful tool to control people;Abigail used the existing power of the church, to frame people, McCarthy used the fear of communists to control people and the government they both used fear. In New England, of Colonial America, the Puritan Church held lots of power over their citizens. Puritans decided cases only on biblical…

the entire community. Reverend Parris, his niece Abigail Williams, and John Proctor are some of the main characters who take into great consideration how they will be viewed as before making any decisions. This striving for an impeccable reputation causes to make some turning point actions throughout the play. Reverend Parris has a very active role in the community and becomes even more involved when the witch trials get completely out of hand. Possibly if Parris had told the truth about his…

People You Meet in Heaven. Some develop a new philosophical understanding of the world, some become rebellious, and some find aspects of their own personality that they didn’t know were there. In The Crucible, the characters Reverend Hale, Reverend Parris, and John Proctor are dynamic characters that undergo important and life changing experiences. John Proctor is a dynamic character that changes to a person that admits his mistakes and takes the fall for other people.…

final act Parris talks of Proctor, “John Proctor is not Isaac Ward that drank his family to ruin. I would to God it were not so, Excellence, but these people have great weight yet in the town” (1221). Parris’s description of Proctor shows that despite his downfall, he is still liked and respected by the townspeople. Although he is hanged, Proctor represented goodness during a dark time in Salem. A Villain is a character whose undertaking is to defy the hero. Proctor’s opposite is Parris, a man…