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"Leave me my name!" cries out Daniel Day-Lewis's John Proctor in the closing moments of this terribly disturbing and hysteria plagued drama from British director Nicholas Hytner. There's little chance of doing anything else as Hytner, who directed the comical drama "Lady in the Van", serves up a controversial historical witch craft drama with a tear bringing frustration that really gets people talking. This remake of "The Crucible" written by Arthur Miller is truly marvelous in the way that it depicts what was written in the book and added splashes of visual information to help the audience understand the cruel reality of the Salem witch hunt. This film is two hours and five minutes long and was first released on the 27th of November in 1996. The two main actors were Daniel Day-Lewis as John Proctor the protagonist who is a reputation and name obsessed character who has difficulties forgiving himself, and Winona Ryder as Abigail Williams a young and ignorant girl in love with a married man. "The Crucible" starts in the woods surrounding the town of Salem during…

The Crucible (1996) Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen, and Karron Graves. Director: Nicholas Hytner Synopsis: In Nicholas Hytner’s film adaptation of Arthur Miller’s story The Crucible he brings to life the exciting story of lies and betrayal.As Abigail Williams (Winona Ryder) spreads accusations of witchcraft throughout the town of Salem, no one is safe. The only hope for the truths discovery lies in the hands of John Proctor (Daniel Day-Lewis) who suffers from his own inner…

The Crucible The Crucible is a movie that stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Bruce Davison, Joan Allen, Rob Campbell, and Robert Breuler. The historic movie takes place in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692. The Crucible is a tragedy and allegory. The Crucible is surely a movie for those who love drama. The film begins with Reverend Paris finds his daughter, Betty, with his niece, Abigail Williams, and many of the other girls from town dancing in the woods with his slave, Tituba. His…

all these other people did witch craft or she saw their dark black spirt. To conclude Abigail Williams was not even close to being a Puritan women. She never did anything like the other women and was just strait up different. I gave my reasons I know their is more but those are the main ones I thought were the best options to write on. The Salem witch trials were a very strange thing and that happened. Just imagine if the girls did not accuse all those other people and how different how…

The Power of Integrity If you were given a choice: your integrity or your life, which would you chose? In the play, The Crucible, the author, Arthur Miller, reveals that most people chose their life over their integrity. The Crucible illustrates that this decision leads greater chaos and distrust through the hysteria that occurred in Salem in 1692. In this time people start to lie and accuse their neighbor of witchcraft to save themselves from the punishment, while their neighbors either hang…

Merricat believed everything in her life was standard, there were routines to follow each day and the sisters rarely strayed from their habits. Their “castle” was more of a fortress, most people weren’t allowed in and those who were rarely left. When Charles visited, Merricat treated him as an invader and felt disgusted when he “tainted” everything. Constance also developed agoraphobia from being out of touch with the outside world. Merricat eventually burned the house down to get rid of…

Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is a play that exhibits brutal accusations, human indecency, and a scramble for power. My Chemical Romance’s song, “Teenagers”, is about fitting in, taking a stand, and class struggle. There are numerous parallels between Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” and My Chemical Romance’s “Teenagers” including class struggle, fear, corruption of power, in and out groups, image, and human nature. Arthur Miller wrote “The Crucible” as a result of the fear of communism in…

adultery. By not signing his name, John knew that execution would await him. He was okay with this because he knew he was going to be with God. Therefore, both main characters come to terms with their mistakes, accepted them and became free. Also in Act 4 of The Crucible, John says, "Damn the village! I confess to God, and God has seen my name on this! It is enough!"(239), showing them he knew that he does not have to show the whole town to be forgiven by God. At the end of the novel, The…

Arthur Miller demonstrates through his play, The Crucible, that John Proctor, the main protagonist, is indeed a modern tragic hero. Throughout another one of Miller’s works, his essay “Tragedy and the Common Man”, he explains who and what a tragic hero really is. This helps to inform the reader about Proctor’s stance as a common tragic hero. Throughout the play, The Crucible, John Proctor faces many obstacles and challenges. Soon after we are introduced to Proctor in the play, we learn that he…

This could be due to the fact that he wants to be seen as a tough man who can take care of himself… but he takes this too far. I’ve talked about how Troy doesn’t support Cory’s dreams, but I haven’t talked about how he doesn’t even act like he loves or cares about him. In Fences, Cory starts a conversation by asking Troy why he has never liked him and Troy responds with, “Like you? I go out of here every morning . . . bust my butt . . . putting up with them crackers every day . . . cause I like…