Salem, Massachusetts

set in the intensely religious society of Salem, Massachusetts during the 18th century and is based on the Salem witch hunts that developed from mass hysteria among the people. “Crucible” can mean different things, such as a very significant and difficult trial or test. John’s and Elizabeth’s marriage is certainly tested. As the play evolves, the relationship between them changes as well. John and Elizabeth Proctor are morally upstanding citizens of Salem. John is a committed religious man…

In the year 1692, a theocracy existed in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, combining state and religious power to keep the community together. However, the infamous witchcraft hysteria that overcame the city allowed people to vent personal vengeance under the mask of the “victim of witchcraft”. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, a play centering around the city of Salem during this time, focuses heavily on how hysteria transformed a peaceful town into one filled with panic. Within The Crucible,…

Written Critique Salem Witch Trials. The event known as the Salem witch trials took place in the year 1692 on New England Massachusetts Bay Colony. It all started in a puritan town called Salem, the puritans were very religious people who lived their lives according to the bible and took their religion as a very important part of their life. There was no separation between law and religion. It all started when the daughter and niece of the minister of the town began to suffer distempers and…

in Salem Massachusetts, there was an issue that would eventually lead to chaos. It involved several people going to trial because they were accused of doing suspicious activity. People, mostly women and some men, were accused of using witchcraft on the other villagers. The salem witchcraft trials of 1692 started when two girls, Betty and Abigail, from a town called Salem, inspired an African woman by the name of Tituba to talk about things involving the paranormal. Many villagers in Salem…

Did the similarities of Abigail and Elizabeth affect the story? The Crucible, a modern play by Arthur Miller, is based on the Witchcraft trials that took place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. The play is faithful to the historical period and to Puritan beliefs. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the characters of Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams can be compared and contrasted through love for John Proctor, witchcraft, and being loved by their families. Additionally, Arthur Miller makes…

How can a organization that praises itself on being respectable be responsible for the death of 20 innocent people (Blumberg)? The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The lives of the people living in this town revolve around the church. They blindly follow God as by not doing so would result in them going to Hell. The story begins with young Betty in bed unable to move, it is later revealed that a group of girls from the town were dancing in the forest,…

The Crucible Characterization: Abigail Williams Paragraph 1: Head back to Salem, Massachusetts 1692. Arthur Miller was able to produce intense characters for his play, The Crucible set in this time. Many people that have read The Crucible are drawn to one character in specific, Abigail Williams, the manipulative, malicious liar. Her selfish and attention seeking qualities are almost mind blowing. While reading the story, you develop a hate love relationship with the character that stops you…

Parris’s Synopsis: When the curtain rises on The Crucible, we are transported to Reverend Samuel house in Salem, Massachusetts in the spring of 1692. Shortly into the story, we learn that the Reverend’s daughter, Betty, and Goody Putnam’s daughter, Ruth, lie motionless on their beds after their outing in the forest the night before. Abigail, Reverend Parris’s niece, is questioned about the possibility of witchcraft in the forest, but she denies the claims made against her. Soon after, John…

The Crucible, Abigail Williams was the cause of the Salem Witch Trials. Took place at Salem village, Massachusetts in 1692, the guilt of this is Abigail Williams and she is eighteen years old, lived with her uncle and she had an affair with John Proctor. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, miller demonstrate that is was Abigail flaws – Dishonest, jealously, and lust that led him to be most responsible for the tragedy of the witch-hunt in Salem. That Abigail was dishonest on The Crucible.…

In 1692 the Salem Witch trials occurred, and thousands of women were killed for being accused of witchcraft, as described by Massachusetts Officials, “Goodwife Cory, Goodwife Nurse, Members of the Churches at the Village and at Salem, many others being by that time Accused” (MP, 76). As mentioned in the essay “The Godly Family of Colonial Massachusetts”, “…Puritan theory was given pointed expression by the poet Milton: ‘God’s universal…