Greed Quotes In The Crucible

First, John Proctor does not himself accuse his wife of being a witch. The girl he had an affair with accused her in an act of jealousy. Corey, on the other hand accused his own wife, Martha Corey, of being a witch because she read while he would pray. He claimed this affected his praying. Second, Proctor does not want any trouble with the town about the witchcraft accusations going around. He wants everything to settle down and disappear. Corey, though is an instigator and wants to make major things blow up. He tells lies to make things more fun for him, in his own mind. He seems to want the accusations to continue. Last, but not least third, Proctor at the end of the play was hanged for Lechery and faking seeing the devil. If he had told the truth and not faked anything about the devil he would have not have been hanged. Corey was Pressed To Death for not revealing the source he overheard talking about the Putnams. If he would have revealed this person he would not have been

Arthur Miller creates a representation of how people can easily turn against each other in times of upheaval and inundation, inducing the atrophy and subversion of the lives of others in reality and in doing so, links The Crucible to the catastrophic time of McCarthyism in his time. The fear suspended the rule of everyday life and allowed the acting out of every dark desire and hateful urge under the cover of righteousness. This is evident when Abigail Williams uses the situation to accuse Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft so that she will be sent to jail. Reverend Parris uses the situation to temporarily strengthen his position in the village by making scapegoats out of people like John Proctor. He tries to paint Proctor as being recalcitrant.

As Vladimir Lenin once stated, “A lie told often enough becomes truth.” This quote indicates that if you constantly repeat a lie, eventually people will come to believe it. I definitely agree with Lenin. A lie won’t stay a secret forever. Lenin’s quote remains true and evident in Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible. There are many characters Miller uses to prove this quote true through the literary elements Characterization, Theme, and Setting. Some characters include Abigail, John Proctor, and Thomas Putnam.

John Proctor at that point was probably then on Giles Corey's bad side. Proctor must have been on others bad side as well. When proctor was accused of witchcraft not many stood up to tell the courts no he's not a witch everyone kept faking that he was or even admitting that they were witches. The girls who had started the Salem witch trials were the ones letting the court know who did witch craft and who did not had known the whole time witchcraft was no such thing but they didn't care . The end resulted to Proctor was the one who was speaking to the devil. Abigail Williams one of the girls who were ones pointing out people who spoke with the devil, she loved John Proctor and wanted him all to herself but when he got accused she fled and took a boat and left. Once that happened people slowly started catching on that this was all just a

The main character I chose to analyze is Abigail Williams. Abigail is a very intelligent, manipulative, and cunning character in The Crucible. Some would call her the puppet master of the play, as she almost seems to have all of the other characters on a string, controlling their destiny with her sly and devious ways. A main example of this in the play, was her use of Mary Warrens poppet to manipulate and control Elizabeth Proctors fate. A poppet is somewhat of a voodoo doll, which Mary Warren had innocently created, and left in the Proctor household. Abigail saw this as opportunity to finally destroy Elizabeth once and for all, after having an affair with her husband John, and still wanting to get him back. The only way to do this, was to kill Elizabeth. Abigail stabbed herself in the abdomen with a large needle, and cried witchcraft at Elizabeth, insinuating that Elizabeth had been the one to stab her through witchcraft. The courts fell for her ingenious plan, and Elizabeth was innocently sent off to jail. This is only one example of the scheming ways of Abigail, shown throughout the play. Her main motivating factor has a theme of jealousy and revenge on Elizabeth. She is clearly the “villain” of the play with her deceitful ways, and never shows any remorse for her actions. She is also a large example of irony in the play, as she is the one that was first accused of witchcraft, but ends up successfully blaming everybody else.

To save herself, mary warren points at proctor and claims proctor is “the devil’s man” (Miller 118). When Abigail blamed Tituba, the accusation of witchcraft eventually scapegoated to Mary Warren, who in return uses John proctor to her advantage as well as a disadvantage to Abigail. scapegoating Mary Warren was not the best of ideas because little does Abby know, Mary was willing to give up proctor and abigail’s affair to her advantage. This resulted in proctor being executed and a disadvantage to Abigail because she has lost her love. Additionally, “[Giles Corey’s] very public death played a role in building public opposition to the witchcraft trials” (Linder). Giles Corey, Martha Corey’s husband, was scapegoated by the girls once he tried to defend Martha. The result of that ended with Giles being put on trial and sentenced to death by pressing under heavy stones. Martha Corey is able to use this to her advantage because her husband was seen as a martyr and everyone began to see that these trials were nothing more than ridiculous. Martha’s fate was rather different from Giles. “based on the girls’ testimony, Martha Corey was sent to the Salem jail to await trial”

As dozens of slaughtered bodies rot in the town of Salem, yet selfishness still covers the scent of the dead. The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, has many examples where selfishness plays a big role in this book. One major way that selfishness shows up in this work is showing the people’s hunger for power. The people in Salem Massachusetts show many ways of being selfish but the biggest way, is that they will do anything to get land even at the cost of a person’s life. Being selfish is one thing but when you will take dozens lives for your own gain that is just pure selfishness. All of these things happening in this town are because of one teenage girl and her name is Abigail. For all of this chaos to stop, one man known as Proctor, must

The Crucible’s theme is based on greed; several characters show this by taking actions to their selfish desire. Foremost Abigail slept with John Proctor, a married man. She commits witchcraft, a crime in Salem, to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife. Betty Parris greatly proclaims “You drank charm to kill John Proctors wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor.”(Miller 19) Betty tenses what Abigail has done proving Abigail is willing to go far for John Proctor. She is willing to do whatever it takes to be with John including drinking a charm to kill Elizabeth Proctor. Following Abigail’s incident, was John Proctor’s affair. He let his desires get the best of him by having an affair. Abigail tells John “I look for John Proctor

One of the major argument in the play, is between the Deputy Governor Danforth and John Proctor. This all happens in Act three of the play, After John’s wife Elizabeth has been taken to the court along with Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey. John heads to the court to prove Elizabeth’s innocence.

Mekenna Kociemba The Crucible The decision John Proctor made in the end. John Proctor made an effort in defending himself and his wife Elizabeth Proctor. Making the decision of getting hanged. What lead up to that?

In The Crucible (1953), Arthur Miller acutely shows the grudges and personal rivalries among his characters. The most obvious being Abigail and Goody Proctor. Abby, who slept with Elizabeth’s husband, makes her rival clear with the honest women when she accuses her of sending out her spirit to stab her, all in hopes of getting John to herself. Mrs. Puttnam blames her midwives for the death of her seven newborns. Parris, the man obsessed with his belongings and image, is determined to make Proctor appear as a man who wants to corrupt the courts.

Supporting his confession, Proctor claims, “A man will not cast away his good name.” Proctor’s name has been all but blackened in the town of Salem, and he would not confess to something so horrific if it had not been committed. Proctor has told the truth, hoping it will help his accused wife. After confessing to his crime, the girls turn against Proctor and accuse him of witchery. When Danforth demands that Proctor admits to witchery, John makes the statement, “God is dead” while laughing. Proctor is amused at that fact that the individuals trying to convict others of witchcraft are the real sinners. It is ironic that Proctor is being accused of witchery, but disagreed with the trials from the beginning.

Giles Corey was an old man who was known to file lawsuits and was knowledgeable of the law. His third wife, Martha Corey, was one of the women accused of sorcery. During the trials, Giles Corey was defending his wife and was arrested for contempt of court. Giles was later pressed to death, because he never admitted or denied his involvement in witchcraft. Abigail was once a servant to John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth fired Abigail once she found out she was having an affair with John. Abigail accused Elizabeth of being involved with sorcery after she said Elizabeth had a knitted doll with a needle in the stomach claiming the needle was to stab her to death. John was struggling to deny that Abigail was lying about being involved in witchcraft or that the doll wasn’t Elizabeth’s because of his affair with her which would cause further trouble. Once everyone found out about the affair, John was also accused of sorcery because of his absence of attending church. John was later hanged after an internal and external conflict with Elizabeth about whether he should confess to save his life or keep denying sorcery. Elizabeth wasn’t hanged because she was pregnant and remarried four years after John was

Abigail stands outside her uncle’s home, her rage and anger at Elizabeth has reached its boiling point. She hears many voices inside the house, “The judges of the trials are here,” she thinks to herself. She stares down at the needle in her hand, it looks just like the one she saw Mary sewing with in court that morning. She thinks back to Elizabeth, that repulsive, vile woman that took her John away from her. Without reluctance now she stabs the needle into her stomach and stumbles into the house. The Proctor’s fate has now been sealed and there was nothing the Proctor’s could have ever done to have stopped it. Theme of revenge is better portrayed in the film, The Crucible, than the play by Arthur miller of the same title.

In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, there is a very clear representation of compassion and forgiveness within the book, in several different ways. Compassion and forgiveness could be hard things to show during such a trying and stressful time; however, many instances of both appear throughout the play. Both traits are very clear in the character of Elizabeth Proctor. However, not everyone showed the traits. Some people in the play counterbalanced those who did. The lack of forgiveness is evident in the character John Proctor and the absence of compassion is also demonstrated through the character Abigail Williams in The Crucible.