Summary Of ' The Crucible '

The Crucible is a historical play by Arthur Miller, and is set in the town of Salem during the late 1690s. The main characters are John Proctor, the protagonist, and Abigail Williams, the antagonist. The conflict occurs when Abigail falsely accuses others of witchcraft. This leads to hysteria in the town, with people turning in innocent people for witchcraft. Many people including John and Elizabeth Proctor are arrested and put on trial, despite their innocence. John Proctor is sentenced to death after refusing to denounce his friends as witches, forgiven by Elizabeth for his affair with Abigail, and restores his reputation of being a good man. The Crucible delves into the extent people will go betray others in order to benefit themselves

c. Abigail Williams- Abigail Williams, the niece of Reverend Parris, is a very witty, deceiving girl

The play begins in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, whose daughter, Betty, lays ill. Parris lives with his daughter and his seventeen-year old niece, Abigail Williams, an orphan who witnessed her parents' murder by the Indians. Parris has sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, believing his daughter's illness stems from supernatural explanations. Betty became ill when her father discovered her dancing in the woods with Abigail, Tituba (the Parris' slave from Barbados) and several other local girls. Already there are rumors that Betty's illness is due to witchcraft, but Parris tells Abigail that he cannot admit that he found his daughter and niece dancing like heathens in the forest. Abigail says that she will admit to dancing and accept the punishment, but will not admit to witchcraft. Abigail and Parris discuss rumors about the girls: when they were dancing one of the girls was naked, and Tituba was screeching gibberish. Parris also brings up rumors that Abigail's former employer, Elizabeth Proctor, believes that Abby is immoral.

I feel that extremism is dangerous because it can lead to intolerance, lying and hurting others.

First, Rebecca Nurse. Nurse is the wife of Francis Nurse, a man who owns about 300 acres of land and got into a land war against the Putnam family (Spoiler alert: the Nurses’ won the land war). Together with all that land, they formed a new community outside of

One’s words have many meaning and can change shape by different people. Reputation is the beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something. Thomas Paine a famous English-American political activist, the philosopher born in 1774 best describes Reputation as, “what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.” Applying that one true identity lies beyond human vision but only truly seen by the god. This message is repeated in ‘The Crucible’ as many characters are challenged between telling the truth to risk their lives to keep their reputations rather than do the right thing. Whether it be, by lying about one’s action,

The desire to be seen as perfect is seen among every human. It has been taken up by the puritan community as the way of life. Puritan belief has made it tremendously hard to not throw shame and regret on people. It causes children to act up due to them being able to get recognized. Everyone would constantly be blamed for things that weren 't bad to the community but due to human nature, they were blamed for benefiting them. Which in itself is not the act of a true puritanism. Women ( specifically young girls) all had a huge impact on Salem that caused lies and new beliefs. 3 women were the main cause of all the sales madness and mayhem these women were Abigail

The Crucible takes place in the early England colonies in Salem, Massachusetts during what we know as the witch trials. It is based on a group of girls involved in “witch like” activities, who begin to accuse others of committing witchcraft just so that they do not get into trouble. One girl controls the group, Abigail Williams, and she plots against Elizabeth Proctor who is married to John Proctor, who Abigail had an affair with. Due to these childish and dramatic acts of Abigail and the girls, half the townspeople were taken to trial and found guilty of witchery and worshipping the devil and were sentenced to hang. Not till the end did the townspeople realize their mistake about the accusations, which turned out to be false.

The Crucible is a play that takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during the 17th century and is based on true events. The Puritans believed in witchcraft and were gullible. At the start of the play, the audience learns some girls were caught dancing naked in the woods by Reverend Parris. They had supposedly “conjured up spirits” and this led to the accusations of the girls as witches. In order to escape the punishment, they accuse other women of the town of being witches. They say that they were approached by the devil but did not go over to his side so they are used as members of the jury.

Parris leaves the Parlor to lead the townspeople in a prayer at the church. The girls who danced the night before gather in the parlor just as Betty wakes up from her paralytic state. Abigail informs the girls of what she

Scapegoating. According to Urban Dictionary, “a scapegoat is defined as, ‘A person or person or object that is used to lay the blame on for all that goes wrong, regardless of the contributions of others. This will usually carry on until the scapegoat has gone, or has managed to successfully defend itself against the arguments presented to it’".The pointing out of a person as an accused or a sinner happens because of the intolerance to any deviation from the society beliefs. This is seen in the play,The Crucible; articles Death Penalty Disgrace and A True Confession. In these articles, the main thing that stands out is that people can be

The main focus of the play The Crucible is the era of the Salem Witch Trials. In 1692, Salem, Massachusetts went on a massive witch-hunt. People were accusing others of witchcraft, and because of this innocent people were killed. If a person confessed to witchcraft, they would be put in jail, but if one denied it they were hanged. The whole epidemic started when Reverend Parris found the girls dancing in the woods. After the girls were caught, Betty Parris falls mysteriously ill, and there is no

Abigail had a grudge with Elizabeth over John Proctor. Abigail used to work for the Proctors, then had an affair with John. The affair caused Elizabeth to fire Abigail, which made Abigail very upset. Following this, Abigail drank a charm to kill Elizabeth, which is identified when Betty says“You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife!

Rebecca Nurse was a good woman to the people and to the church. She had eleven children and twenty-six grandchildren. Goody Nurse was accused by Ann Putnam a jealous woman. Ann Putnam believes that Goody Nurse was responsible for the deaths of her seven infant children. Ann Putnam said “You think it God’s work you should never lose a child, nor grandchild either, and bury all but one? There are wheels within wheels in this village! And fire within fires!” ( 148 ) Many people accused her even more after that but all Rebecca Nurse wanted to do was stop all the foolishness that the girls and other people were doing in Salem.

Betty wakes up from her coma and is screaming, which leads the community to believe she has been witched. Reverend Hale speaks to Tituba because he has become suspicious of the girls who danced. Tituba admits to coming in contact with the devil and then the other girls begin to admit that they also saw other people conspiring with the devil. Later, Mary Warren's comes to John Proctor's home with news that Elizabeth, his wife, has been accused of being a witch after Abigail Williams set her up and convinced the townspeople that Elizabeth stabbed her in the stomach and killed her unborn child. John expresses that Mary must go to the court and tell the people that Abigail and the rest of the girls are frauds and have been lying this whole time. Mary tells this to court but the girls turn the tables on her saying that she is the one who truly bewitched them and they cause an uproar acting as if she is controlling them during the court session. Mary then accuses John of being a witch and he is arrested along with his wife. Eventually, Abigail runs away with Parris’s money and Danforth tries to get Elizabeth to talk John into confessing. He confesses but does not include others in his confession, which leads to Hale send John to be hung with the others who were perceived as being witches and this ends the witch