Giles Corey

Reverend Parris was greedy toward wealth this is evident when parris preaches for weeks about gold candle sticks until he has them as well as the argument parris gets in over his pay including money for firewood or not Miller uses this argument to allow the audience to have a good understanding of who Parris truly is. Putnam used the witch trials as an excuse to get even with his neighbours and get their land. The characters lack of understanding Judge Danforth’s greed for power this is…

The story of The Crucible happened in a dark, desperate time in the United States. This saddening story of witchcraft was written by a man named Arthur Miller. He used the Salem Witch Trials and related that to his own story, The Modern Witch Trials, in which a man named Elia Kazan accused Miller and seven others of being apart of a communist party. The main characters within the story are: Reverend Parris, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Mary Warren, Elizabeth Proctor, and Reverend Hale. Each…

Selfish Actions Lead to Chaos in The Crucible Reverend Samuel Parris, Abigail Williams, and Thomas Putnam are all characters that show self-seeking actions throughout the entire play of The Crucible. These people contribute to making Salem a corrupt society. A functioning community would have everyone working together, and in this case, working to diminish the Salem Witch Trials, but their community is filled with disorderly happenings which is shown in the characters of Parris, Abigail, and…

The injustice against the Salem Witches. Through the years of 1400 and 1800 a series of events took place where there was an injustice toward a group of people that were believed to be witches. These people had to turn on each other in order to survive. The fear of dying only led them to fight for survival even if it meant blaming innocent people. Although there were a lot of religious principles, people also believed witches were real. Due to these beliefs, people were executed whether…

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is about a small group of girls who accuses most of the adults in village on the account of witchcraft. The witch trials took place in a small town called Salem, Massachusetts, in the year of 1692. In the book you can choose a number of people who are responsible for the witchcraft trails that took placed, but the character that stands out the most is John Proctor. Arthur Miller demonstrates to the world that because of John’s characters flaws of Stubbornness,…

Little do people know that the use of torture on victims is still widely practiced throughout the world today. The reason being is that some may use the excuse that they choose to continue the practice of torture in attempt to obtain the ‘truth’ from the detainees. By definition torture is the act or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain (Irct.org). Proofs of interrogation…

The oppressive nature of Puritanism created a crisis in the form of the Salem witch trials. Puritanism is represented in several aspects of the Salem Witch Trials. The laws that created a strict pious code, the Puritan’s everyday life style, and the political policies contributed to the crisis which arose in the town of Salem. The Puritan religion had been brought to Salem, Massachusetts from England in early 1629 by a group of religious separatists who believed that the newly reformed Church of…

McCarthyism and the Crucible Imagine living during a time period full of widespread paranoia, where a job that you had worked so hard for all of your life was taken away from you in the blink of an eye. The constant fear of being accused of being a communist based off the opinion of another, and having no say in whether their claim is true or not. A time where your basic rights as a free man come out of question and your back is always against the wall. The fear of communism spread across…

Unresolved transgressions terminate in the same fashion as do untended wounds- they fester and then become infected. By committing adultery, refusing to confess, and leaving his family in the end, John Proctor destroys everything he once had.While the majority withdraws from its own demise, a few people, including John Proctor, believe that the greatest responsibility of mankind is to stand firm for what an individual honestly believes to be the only morally acceptable choice. People in Salem…

Written at the peak of the Cold War, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible reveals the haunting truth about issues occurring in society in the 1950s. Published in 1952, Miller’s play hit the stage in 1953 with mixed reviews and little success. After the Cold War, when not many Americans feared the possibility of Russia taking over the United States anymore, The Crucible rose on the charts and became a movie in 1996, winning a Tony Award in the process. In his work, Miller, a critic of communism,…