The Stories of John Cheever

Williams, an 18 year old girl whose uncle(Reverend Parris) is the town’s reverend, has an affair with John Proctor, a 30 year old farmer who is married, when she worked at the Proctor household. The two keep it going until John becomes penetrated by his guilt, Elizabeth finds out and fires Abigail. Ever since this happened, Abigail set out to destroy and kill Elizabeth and take her place by John Proctor’s side. This led her to seek the help of Tituba, Reverend Parris’…

play has several different themes throughout, but three major ones can be singled out. These three themes are mass hysteria, groupthink, and abuse of power. The first theme to be discussed is mass hysteria. This theme fits the story very well, since a major part of the story is the imaginary threat of witchcraft and devilry spreading through the town like wildfire. As soon as something new is uncovered, whether true or false, rumors explode around town. For instance, after Abigail and her…

Collins the character john proctor faces many ups and downs in his puritan town. John was a man that was highly viewed by all the people he was a good puritan man. Through the movie, his character shows more emotions and brings out his true self. There were many events that sparked his new emotions. Through the story, his characteristics good or bad will come out weather by a loved one or an enemy. Through the story john constantly proves that he is a courageous man. In act two Cheever (one of…

he would hope George Jacobs would die so he could get a piece of his land. Lastly, Danforth is shocked that Abigail’s accusations may be all about revenge and jealousy, however out of self-respect Danforth ignores that and continues to investigate John Proctor. Afterall, many people in the village were very jealous of each other and created much drama for everyone else in the…

The Crucible, John Proctor is a dynamic character throughout the story. He is a local farmer in Salem and he is portrayed as an outcast. The only downfall to him is that he is hiding a big secret which is his affair with Abigail Williams. Despite the fact that he cheated on his wife, Proctor was a good man. John Proctor and I have similar personality traits that include being a hard worker, caring, and open minded. First, being hardworking is one trait both John Proctor and I share. John is the…

Miller writes as though truth meant as much as a lie. In the Crucible Elizabeth Proctor is seen as the most honest woman ever, but when she lies the one time in her life that the reader sees, it causes a downfall of events. Elizabeth Proctor’s husband, John Proctor, is accused of witchcraft and is hanged after Elizabeth Proctor’s white lie. Her white lie from all the truth she usually told shows Arthur Miller’s perspective of truth as the importance of a lie no matter how big or small. Another…

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…

The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials of 1692. The play illustrates the sudden empowerment of women, the fall of community, and the loss of power of high-ranking people, like Reverend Parris and John Proctor. Throughout the play, there is evidence that many characters, power rises while it falls for others. For example in 1692 women did not have any power at all, but as soon as Abby and the other girls accuse upstanding members of the community of…

but were once wanting to be involved in the accusations, can now not back out, because they could then be accused of being a liar. This idea of having to follow through with the witchcraft hysteria is further exemplified when Mary goes to court with John Proctor. Mary is supposed to confess how she gave Elizabeth the poppet with the pin in it, and how Abigail is lying. While she begins to confess, Abigail soon uses a scare tactic on Mary to convince her not to confess. Abigail convinces Mary by…

development throughout the book would be John Proctor. Proctor comes off in the beginning of the part as an uncaring man, a cheater with no fear of the Lord, but as we continue reading we see John Proctor to go through more development, he sees his mistakes, his betrayal to his wife,…