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1 / 2 Lexi Punturo The Crucible Theme Analysis Theme #1: Reputation Reputation is one of the many concerns for the characters in The Crucible . Everyone wants a good name in the town because they do not want to get accused of witchcraft or being a husband of a witch. As the play starts out, Reverend Parris ( the Minister of Salem) finds out that Betty Parris and the other girls have being dancing outside. Later, people all believed that the "dancing" was a form of witchcraft and this was…

John Proctor is the tragic hero in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The downfall of John in the play is due to a human flaw, which largely qualifies him as a tragic hero. John is a respectable farmer, who has a high social status .The tragic flaw was the physical attraction he had towards Abigail Williams, yet he had a wife. His wife realizes his husband’s acts of adultery and gets jealous. Proctor knows that he has the option to confess the deed. However, his pride comes in his way and he is…

commons for economic reasons. While it seems irrational for the government to refuse a positive action such as planting trees that provides cleaner air and more food, there is a hidden economic cost to the government. In the documentary, when president Daniel arap Moi…

In the story The Crucible, John Proctor has been sent to prison for adultery and accused of witchcraft. When John was pulled out of the prison cell he was given a choice, to either confess to his sins and let his name die or go to get hanged. At first he signs the paper, and then John rips the paper and says that he’d rather get hanged for his wrong doing. He was a fool for doing what he had done. John Proctor should have confessed and lived on in guilt. Proctor is a fool because he choose to…

In the book Crucible written by Arthur Miller there are many characters in the story that behave totally different from one other. Most of the girls in the book Crucible are not leaders and don’t have minds there own. Abby is a character that is in the book Crucible some readers may say she's a leader and some may thinks she's arrogant. Abby has many reasons why she may behave the way she does in the book. Abby is not mature in the book she is extremely young compared to John Proctor. The…

To demonstrate, Hale has a crucible that started developing when he first came to Salem, believing everything is black and white with no in between. Hale first shows this when he arrives in Salem at the beginning of the play and believes there are witches and evil and then there are the good and pure and the village is being over run with the evil. Hale explains to the Proctors that they cannot doubt that, “the powers of the dark are gathering in monstrous attack upon Salem” (65). Hale is…

Compared to the Romantics, Puritans had no connection between their writing and the reader. An abundance of examples can easily be found throughout Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker, Bonet’s The Devil and Daniel Webster, and Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death. Each of these stories was written to humanize the writing so the readers could connect to it easier. The humanization helped the reader to connect to the characters that were able to defeat evil without God’s help, using the human power…

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor did redeem himself when he died for not confessing to witchcraft. John Proctor has done some really good things. He also done some really bad things as well. The bad things Proctor should have burned in hell but, because of the sacrifice he made, John Proctor Saved his soul. John Proctor is a good man. John Proctor is a good man because “I nailed the roof upon the church, I hung the door”(act II 527-528). John Proctor help build the…

here are people who make mistakes and learn from them. These kind of people are considered good people. Good means that someone who has great qualities and is morally right. In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, one character that represents a good person is John Proctor. John Proctor is a good man because he tells the truth about his affair with Abigail, cares and respects other people in Salem and sacrifices himself instead of “selling out” his friends. First, John Proctor is a good man…

In the beginning of the play Elizabeth Proctor was caring towards her husband but as the play went on she began caring less about her husband. In these next few paragraphs I will be writing about my feelings towards Elizabeth Proctor. I will also discuss whether or not my feelings changed throughout the different acts, and what my final thoughts were at the conclusion of the play. In act two while talking to the Judge Elizabeth Proctor states, “It is her dearest hope, I know it. There be a…