Comparing The Crucible with The Titanic and The Woman in Black

The Crucible, a movie directed by Nicholas Hytner, was critically acclaimed and earned several awards. It received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay based on material previously produced or published, a BAFTA award for best-adapted screenplay, and Golden Globe awards for supporting actor and actress in a motion picture. In Empire’s review, they say, “In this almost perfect screen adaptation, the lingering question is the most important one: what caused such madness?” This movie adaptation is objectively superior than the written play for many reasons. One reason is how the characters are portrayed, specifically John Proctor. The way Nicholas Hytner deals with the other characters is exceptional as well. Nicholas Hytner’s The

The film and play's plot are basically identical, so there's no need to compare them, still the storyline is great. Furthermore, the plot of The Crucible is when Abigail and the girls are found in the forest dancing and doing witchcraft with Tituba. Abigail lies about how they were not doing anything witchcraft related in the forest, but people still suspect witchcraft in Salem, so Abigail and the girls accuse innocent people of witchery to cover up what they actually, did in the forest. John Proctor had an affair with Abigail, which that ends up being his downfall by Abigail accusing his wife of witchcraft because she wants to have Proctor for herself. John then goes into the court to say how the girls and Abigail been lying about everyone they accused by bringing Mary Warren, was part of Abigail's clique, to show they have been lying. The girls pretend that Mary Warren is a witch by acting like she is hurting them

The Crucible is a play written in 1953 by a New Yorker named Arthur Miller. The play revolves around the Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts, which happened during the late 1600’s. This was the time period where people would accuse others of performing witchcraft and “signing the devil’s black book in their own blood.” The witches would then either be jailed, hanged, or burned at the stake. It was a very dark time for the Puritans of Massachusetts. In the play, it is caused by a group of girls falsely accusing people they don’t like of being witcher. Miller threw in references to the “Red Scare” and the Communist Hunts during the 1950’s as well, as he was comparing the two events to each other. The characters and events in The Crucible were based on the diaries Miller found, so every character in the book were real people who were alive during the trials. Even though Rebecca Nurse, a wealthy old woman, and Elizabeth Proctor, wife of John Proctor, are separated by wealth, social status and likability (how liked they are), but they are very similar to each other because they have both been accused of witchcraft, and their personalities are more similar than once thought.

The Crucible is an award winning 1953 playwright that was composed by American author, Arthur Miller. The play takes place in the time of the 1600’s Salem Witch Trials and tells a story of 17 year old Abigail Williams who has an affair with well entrusted family man, John Proctor. When Williams is caught in what seems to be a conjuring of spirits in the forest one morning, she faces accusations of witchcraft which would result in a hefty charge if pleaded guilty; death. Understanding the price for such a crime, Williams comes up with a lie to cover up her tracks. The playwright has had many runs in the production industry and even appeared on movie screens in the late of 1996. However, when looking at the movie and the play there are many differences that can be seen when looking at the two side by side. While the movie and the play do indeed have some similarities, they also have some differences that are very much apparent in terms of how the characters are portrayed and the scenes that had been cut out as well as the script having some altercations when transforming this playwright into a major motion picture. When zooming out and discovering the differences between the two it is obvious to see that the playwright is and always will be the better of the duo.

The Crucible, an original play written by Arthur Miller, has had a multitude of adaptations come out after its’ release in 1953. Among these adaptations are the movie, The Crucible, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder and local performances of the play, such as the one seen at the Civic Theatre. The Crucible is about the people of Salem, MA and trouble of the accusations of witchery after Abigail, the niece of Reverend Parris, has an affair with the married John Proctor and he denies her when she attempts to do it again. Specifically, Abigail’s reaction to the rejection in the movie is portrayed so much more realistic than it is in the play and the entire cast portraying their characters realistically for how it was appropriate for the setting of the movie. Although the movie was exceptional in content, the universal portrayal of the characters was better in the movie. Overall, The Crucible movie version, directed by Nicholas Hytner, portrayed the characters better the play because Winona Ryder portrayed Abigail Williams better than the written play did, and the cast as a whole worked together to create the mood of the historical time period of both the Salem Witch Trials and the communist era. Additionally, even though the written play was amazing due to it being ‘first’, the movie was still better at portraying the development of the characters.

more about the salem witch trials, the film would be more suggested than the written play.

In The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter, they are both known to be a part of the Puritan religion. The puritans are known to be very strict. Often people are put to cruel punishments for mistakes or sins they had committed. The actions they take to “punish” a person are extreme. The Puritans act and seem so committed to their religion. The people seem “Holy” but you never really know what happens behind closed doors. The Puritan religion is so strict is causes members to become corrupt.

History plays a huge role that can’t be changed while the play such as the Crucible can amend to match what modern theater expects. Either the script or events can take a toll and can surprise the audience at any second with drama, death, or maybe a turn on events making the story a little good from bad. Since the first screening of The Crucible to the first events in Salem, both are on events that impacts the human race to this day by showing how brutal and how far they took their religion. Then again both stories told are a lot more different than what you expect because of the way Arthur Miller distributes parts of the story differently from that of history. For real Salem history cannot be changed by now but a play like The Crucible can to set a different point of view for the crowd.

The Crucible is a play that is about multiple things that happened in the Salem witch trails and how the characters behaviors have affected the whole play. The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The characters take in plenty of actions and the setting are all symbolic of abstract ideas and issues between all the characters. Although, The Crucible is a play that relates to the witch trails in Salem and the consequences that have occurred with the people in the play. The Crucible also has plenty of violence’s and killing events, there’s other parts of where the characters are just lying to each other and there’s also other parts where they all hide something from someone in the play as in the usual most of them did. The Crucible has a strict religion but others in the play believed in “witchcraft”, as what Abigail accused Elizabeth of doing in the play to escape from her truth to be revealed because Abigail had an affair with the Proctor.

Since Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible as a play instead of a novel, I think that helped make the movie and the playwright connect. A difference between how I pictured the movie to be and how it was performed was how the actors looked and acted. I envisioned John not to be so gruff and rough looking. I imagined a more clean cut man. I also imagined Abigail to be more charming and appealing, because that might help explain John’s actions.

After more than forty years Nicholas Hytner decided to film the movie version of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. As most producers tend to do, Hytner was able to insert his own position while still maintaining the original story line. To get the right reaction from his audience Hytner deleted, altered, and added to the movie. While still following the storyline of the play, Hytner was able to make changes while not changing the play dramatically. While watching Nicholas Hytner's film there were many similarities and differences in the way the characters developed, the scenes, and the feelings of the audience and actors.

The film version of The Crucible depicts the play achieving several depth by depth characteristics that are very similar to the play. The film The Crucible (1996) is introduced chronologically, comparing side by side it is very exact to that of the play. This whole film is based on one simple element and that is witchcraft, the Salem Witch Trials which killed 19 innocent lives who were believed to be associated with the Devil, and believed they were witches that had the ability to fly wherever and whenever they wanted to.

“I cannot tell if I was more tired or more grateful. Both at least, I was: tired as I never was before that night; and grateful to God as I trust I have been often, though never with more cause.” This shows how much Davie suffered.This also shows no matter what Davie is always grateful even when things are bad. My mom quotes “There is always light at the end of the tunnel”. Which means things don’t stay bad forever and you just need to look for the light ahead.

The movie version of The Crucible was much more violent, graphic, and suspenseful than the play. The graphicness of the movie helped make all the events more relatable to the audience. It also made the general plot more interesting. The graphicness and violence helped contribute to the overall theme of The Crucible.

The Crucible stood out to me from the rest of the plays. I was able to relate to it on a greater scale than the others, and the story behind the Crucible interested me very much. Also I notice a theme of secret sin. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this play as well as watching the movie. In research, I have read numerous facts on the Salem witch trials and have discovered that the witch trials are a very wide known topic which possesses many different opinions on the subject. The mass hysteria over witches started these trials. Since held in 1692, television programs today consist of witch characters in their series including some bad and some good. Clearly, the thought of witches has made its way to our world now-a-days. An obvious theme in this play is lies and deceit. Most of the characters in The Crucible are lying – if not to other people, then to themselves. Abigail lies about her ability to see spirits, as do the other girls; Proctor is deceitful first for cheating on his wife and then for hiding