John Williams

John and Elizabeth Proctor’s marriage evolves throughout the play. The Crucible is a love story at heart about Proctor’s adulterous relationship and overall betrayal towards his wife Elizabeth (Palmer). The couple goes through many obstacles throughout the play, that causes their relationship to go through many changes. John and Elizabeth’s relationship changes throughout the entire play in a positive direction. Elizabeth found out about John’s affair with Abigail Williams seven months…

William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” has two characters with the honorable title Don. The characters, however, Don Pedro and Don John couldn’t be more different. Don Pedro, the Prince of Aragon pays a visit to Leonato, the governor of Messina while returning from a war against his rebellious brother, Don John the bastard. With him are two of his officers, Claudio and Benedick. From the beginning to the end of the play, two love stories are intertwined. One story follows the traditional…

1. Abigail- Abigail Williams is the most powerful character throughout The Crucible, who starts the blaming game throughout Salem, Massachusetts. Even though different rumors about her are spreading through the village, she convinces many people with her lies about the bonfire incident. For example, she persuades Reverend Hale and Parris that Tituba was involved in different form of witchcraft. People from the village believe what she says because she is a victim of witchcraft who was able to…

Pay attention to how the flowers sway back and forth as the wind dances through open fields, take note of the animals running about in their home. The sounds the birds make may be music to one’s ears, and the smell of nature may allow the feeling of relaxation to take over one’s body. With the sounds, smells, and sights of nature all around, in the moment of letting nature settle into the mind, everything in the world may become at peace. When a relationship is opened up with nature, one could…

The Crucible Without exception, every situation or story has a villain and victim, the victim being the person who is getting taken advantage of. The villain being the person who is taking advantage. Therefore, Abigail Williams is the main character in the The Crucible by Arthur Miller. She lived in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials. Everywhere she goes, she causes trouble. The trials were about the prosecutions of people who were accused of witchcraft. During the first act in…

Today, several novels are written for the purpose of implicitly mentioning a real world event by portraying a real world event as something that occurs in the plot. Even though some of the plot is changed, the reader is able to interpret the story as the real world event. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Miller portrays the society of Salem, a small town located in Massachusetts during the witchcraft period as the idea of McCarthyism. Miller also portrayed the play as the several types of…

In Christopher Marlowe 's play Doctor Faustus, the plot focalizes around John Faustus, a character that sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge. Similarly, in William Shakespeare 's Hamlet, the ambitious King Claudius murders his own brother to achieve wealth and power as the King of Denmark. These sinful crimes compromise the integrity of both male characters and inflict devastating consequences on their well-being and ability to coexist peacefully within their respective plays.…

My beloved, John Proctor: It’s hard for you to acknowledge our affair and our love for each other when we confront face to face, so I hope this letter can reassure your love and care towards me. When your lips were pressed softly against mine, I felt butterflies tingling in my stomach. Although I know that you swore to love Elizabeth, but you know that your heart race when you see me. To reassure your love towards me, I even practices witchcraft on Elizabeth Proctor to get you attention. Don’t…

The character of John Proctor is used throughout the play ‘The Crucible’ in order to convey the idea that both good and evil are not absolute. Proctor as the protagonist is described as a good man, even tempered and not easily led. Miller’s third essay suggests to the audience that Proctor has previously committed a sin against moral laws. As a married man to Elizabeth Proctor, John admits to an affair had with seventeen year old Abigail Williams. He believes his affair with Abigail ruined his…

It is especially easy to connect the characters in each of the books. Both books have an extreme amount of violence; while Jack is the leader of the savagery in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Curley instills terror in his father’s employees in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Through the violence though, Ralph and George were generally good. There was even comic relief in both Piggy and Lennie. There are many likenesses among the characters in Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and…