Comparison of Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor in Miller's The Crucible The Crucible is play that helps to show human nature through a series of events linked through the Salem witch trials. In this play, a group of young teenagers would undermine the religious government and make a mockery of the Salem judicial system. Miller also shows human nature through the development of characters. Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor are foils of each other and have many differences; they would
spread throughout the small population. What started as a small lie used to get a group of young girls out of trouble soon turned into a huge conspiracy resulting in around twenty executions. Abigail Williams, a young Puritan girl hopelessly in love with a married man, seeks revenge on her married lover’s wife. Abigail was caught doing the unspeakable in the woods, and in an effort to cover her tracks, she manipulates the entire town into believing her innocence. Hundreds of years later, the United States
The Government Government is a basic system that all civilized people live under. Which government is a better system for serving its people: the government in The Crucible by Arthur Miller or the one in Lord of the Flies by William Golding? None of the two governments are suitable for their people because of their type of governing, their foundations and their political intolerance. In The Crucible, Salem’s government is a theocracy. Due to the fact that Salem is populated with Puritans who see
One of the main aspects of a story begins and ends with the geography. Many things can be interpreted by the word geography and The Crucible by Arthur Miller along with “Geography Matters” by Thomas C. Foster found a way to express just how much geography can shape and change the way the story is told. Setting and geography have impacted everyone on this earth, including me. The way setting has impacted be makes up for who i am today and who i will be in the future. The Crucible and the passage
Comparison of Elizabeth Proctor with Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor, the leading female characters in 'The Crucible'. Both show determination in order to get what they want. Abigail, a cunning girl that is out for revenge, feels she has superiority over many of the other characters even though she is only a young girl. Elizabeth's character portrays a wife in distress after she finds out about her husband's affair
more than others, and some not at all. John and Elizabeth Proctor went through an immense change, while Abigail Williams did not change at all. John Proctor is one of the most essential characters in this play. He is a good, honest farmer that lives on the outside of Salem. He had an affair with Abigail Williams, which caused tension on his marriage, and tension on his relationship with Abigail. He told her that he will “cut [his] hand” before he reached for her again (894; Act I). He is penitent
play some sort of impacting part to the characters we met while watching The Crucible. Who knew that religion and government could change a person’s life in a matter of minutes like it did so many times throughout the movie. The characters like Abigail Williams and John Proctor both knew the risks of going against these roles and what it would do to their everyday lives, but both characters chose to do it in more ways than one. Religion played a huge role throughout The Crucible and all of the characters
references like the Red Scare and the hysteria of communism, as well as in the book the hysteria is about witches. He also makes some biblical comparisons in the book. The characters are very complex just like the book, knowing this, let's dive in. In The Crucible there is an ongoing hysteria of witches in Salem. This is all because one girl named Abigail Williams decides to make accusations when she lusts for a man named John Proctor and in an effort to get closer to him she tries to get rid of his wife
The Crucible vs. Witches in Colonial America (option 2) The Crucible and real life event are similar, though the play is not entirely accurate in comparison to what really happened during the Salem Witch Trials. For the purpose of keeping an audience engaged in what might not be the most interesting topic to some people, Arthur Miller changes quite a few details in his literary piece. Many of the changes he makes to the story of The Crucible are very important because they change the story dramatically
play, The Crucible written by Arthur Miller although a four act play can be put into the traditional 5 act tragedy. Set in Salem Massachusetts in the spring of 1692, The Crucible shows the gripping and suspenseful tales of the Salem witch trials in comparison to the 1950’s McCarthyism. Though with the basic exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution of the traditional five act play, this play is broken down into four major acts explaining the rippling effects of the girl’s accusations