Indirect Characterizations Of Characters In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

    In the final act of The Crucible, Rebecca and two others are sentenced to hang for witchcraft, but if they confess to their crimes and accept God’s light, the charges will drop and they will live, albeit in shame. John Proctor, one of the accused, discusses the witch hunts with his wife Elizabeth before he is hanged. He mentions that

As the Puritan ways of Salem increasingly become more strict, it makes it harder for the town’s citizens to fit in the way they used to. Years after the incident, the issue comes up and Giles Corey explains, “Now he goes to court and claims that from that day to this he cannot keep a pig alive for more than four weeks because my Martha bewitch them with her books!” (68). Walcott, a former customer of Martha Corey, bought a pig in which it died soon thereafter because he did not feed it. After Martha denies his requested refund, he goes whining to the court about her and raises false suspicions which lead Martha to fall victim to witchcraft

(Hook) Giles Corey, the main protagonist in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, with such bravery and strength both physical and mentally, he will risk it all to to succeed in court. (Transition) Because had been to court over thirty times and won every single time, Giles Corey gave his life to beat the court the right way. (Thesis) As a result, Giles is a protagonist who help to stop the hysteria with his strength of character by resisting torture to keep his land.

Both Giles and Martha Corey are real characters from the play The Crucible. Giles Corey was a good man with no bad intentions, he was charged with killing his first wife and was therefore later accused of being a witch. When his wife Martha was accused of witchcraft Giles testified at the courthouse, he was accused of witchcraft at the courthouse. Martha Corey was accused of witchcraft when her and Giles had an illegitimate child and talked about her disagreement with the trials. Giles was pressed to death when he refused to plead guilty or not guilty to being a witch. His wife Martha was hung before he was.

He is a good man with his good reputation in his real life. He marries three times, his third wife is Martha Corey who shows up in the play. When he is 80 years old, he moves to live in the southwest corner of Salem Village with Martha Corey. When Salem Witch Trial starts in April 18th 1692, he and his wife are accused by Ann Putnam. Ann Putnam claims that “on April 13 the specter of Giles Corey visited her and asked her to write in the Devil’s book” (“Giles Corey” 1) and later she said “a ghost appeared before her to announce that it had been

Unfortunately for Giles Corey, he is a character that receives the bad end of Danforth’s bias. For one, Danforth refuses to see Giles’ evidence, preventing Giles from protecting his wife from the wrath of the court. Giles pleads to Danforth, voicing

Giles Corey and I both portray a charcteristic of being loyal.Giles Corey is a loyal human being.This is shown in The Crucible when he makes a petition to show that his wife had no relations with witchcraft whtsoever.Onetime three or four months ago my sister was getting picked on in Jeanette by some snobby girls that wouldnt leve her alone.So our older sister and I went down there to solve the issue.When we returned back to my well,same age as

When the witch terror first emerges, many people are called to the courts to stand trial and be examined. Naturally, people are discontent with this and some try to question and reason with the representatives of the court. Reverend Parris, looking to keep his job and status in the town tries to discredit the emotions of the people by claiming that, "This is a clear attack on the court!" (94). Proving that he has no real loyalty to the town, and only wishes to look after himself. In act four Reverend Hale gives the audience an image of what Salem currently looks like. "[There are] abandoned cattle on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere, and no man knows when the harlot’s cry will end his life-” (130). At this point in the play, it is obvious that the town is in ruin due to all the hostility and distrust among the puritans. In the final scene of the play, John Proctor gives a false confession so that he may live. Although everyone present at the confession knows that John is innocent of the crime of witchcraft. When his confession is finished, and the time has come for him to sign, he refuses to argue "You came to save my soul, did you not? Here! I have confessed myself; it is enough!" It is made clear to the audience that at this point in the play, John has no trust or regard for the authority of the court. Examplifying how much damage has been done to the

Throughout these trials, many of the citizens of the town are convicted to death by hanging. The cause of these being because many of them wouldn’t confess to the practice of witchcraft. Many of the people who had plead not guilty, or wouldn’t confess to being witches, were being honest to themselves and to their fellow citizens. For example, Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor, both either didn’t confess, or didn’t fully confess. Rebecca Nurse was kind-hearted and described as “the woman of self-dignity”.

In the play, Giles Corey is an elderly man who has recently converted to Christianity in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. He has a wife, Martha Corey, and sons who remained anonymous throughout the play. Like any other Puritan in Salem (which is now Danvers), he worked hard to make a living.

But the Scooby gang doesn't know about any of these things and, even though Dawn obviously knows that Ben is a weak and, by virtue of the circumstances, treacherous human being because of his weakness, Giles certainly has no knowledge of any of Ben's immoral actions when he kills him. Giles is acting on the assumption that Ben is completely innocent but powerless to stop Glory, should she ever wish to return for purposes of payback. Giles realizes that something needs to be done and that whoever does it will be incurring feelings of guilt -- otherwise he would have left Buffy to do it. By saving her from the act of murder, Giles acknowledges the moral ambiguity of the act itself, the (apparent) innocence of Ben, and the inevitability of guilt for whoever happens to do what, in Giles' view, has to be done. (Similarly, he would have killed Dawn, if he had to). But, we notice, feelings of guilt never come, and the ambiguity of this act never surfaces (script directions describe Giles during/after the murder this way: "Giles' expression never changes"). Giles objectifies the evil -- it is not in him, but he is merely the carrier, the means for an act which must be done, one way or another.

To begin with, the act opens in “the vestry room of the Salem meeting house, now serving as the anteroom of the General Court” (180). There is already a bit of tension and conflict between the characters.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is an interpretation of the Salem witch trials of 1692 in Puritan Massachusetts in which religion, justice, individuality and dignity play a vital role. These factors define the characteristics of many of the most significant characters in the play. Some of them being John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Reverend Hale, Danforth and many others. The Salem witch trials were a result of the lack of expression of individuality and the fact that no individual could expect justice from the majority culture as a result of the deterioration of human dignity in the Puritan society of Salem.

Elizabeth Proctor: [whispering] What have I ever done to deserve this treatment? What crime have I ever committed? Why am I convicted of this ungodly crime? [Raises her voice slightly with disdain and conviction.] Witchcraft! What nonsense. The whole town is mad because of a few silly, manipulative girls convicting innocents of witchcraft, and with no evidence! People are being hanged for crimes they did not commit! I am only here because of that silly poppet that Mary Warren gave to me, though I would not be surprised if Abigail was involved, though that is another matter entirely. As if a poppet is proof enough that I am a witch. As if pointing fingers and calling names is enough to prove that one is a witch.

Giles Corey was clearly full of regret when it came to his wife, Martha Corey, being accused of witchcraft, blaming himself for the inevitable penalty she was sure to face. Giles, by no means, was a man of purity. He was well educated on the court system not by studying the practice of law but, by being the plaintiff in many lawsuits. When it came to the town beginning to develop a sense of hysteria, his lips became loose. He told Hale, a man of great importance, that he has sometimes woke up at night and saw that his wife was reading in the corner of their room. “It discomfits me! Last night -mark this- I tried and tried and could not say my prayers. And then she close her book and walks out the house, and suddenly -mark this- I could pray again!” (Miller 40). Now, is is good to know, Giles was not a well read man. Though he wasn’t illiterate,