The Crucible Book Vs Movie

The Crucible takes place during the Salem Witch Trails in 1692. It was originally written as a play in 1954 by Arthur Miller and was later adapted into a movie, directed by Nicolas Hytner. The movie falls into the historical fiction genre because it’s a fictional story based off of actual events. The film stayed fairly true to history, the characters were similar to the real people and their fates remained the same. Some parts of history had to be altered of dramatized to make the story line more entertaining for a typical audience. Although the story between Abigail Williams, the main antagonist, and John Proctor, the main protagonist, was fictional, The Crucible did a fantastic job of staying accurate to history.

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is an iconic piece of literature that was published in the 1950’s. When Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, the United States was in the middle of the McCarthyism era where innocent people were being accused of treason without the proper evidence (“Joseph R. McCarthy”). As a result, Arthur Miller became involved and wrote a play to show his beliefs in response to the accusations and haywire going on. Miller used individual characters and portrayed them as a part of his protest. The Crucible was published as a play and made a film. The two are similar, but differences do occur. The play represents these characters with more historical accuracy and believability than the film because individually, the characters

The novel and the movie were both very suspenseful. The main characters are both the same in the book and in the movie but are a little bit different then their counter partners in the novel/movie. In both the movie and

The text and film adaptation of The Crucible complement each other, catching the essence of Arthur Miller’s central themes and messages. Although the film reiterates the theme and the basis of the play, there are many differences to contrast. The film featured scenes that were merely referenced in the text, allowing the audience to fully grasp the storyline. These additions are also necessary to convey emotions and accentuate important attributes of the characters.

The Salem Witch Trials were an extremely controversial period of time in our history. This was a time of suspicion and accusation of many innocent women and men that led to hysteria and complete turmoil in Salem Village. The Crucible portrays the Salem Witch Trials in a dramatic sense, but there are many similarities between the movie and the actual events. We can use these unusual events to compare to our own lives and learn from the mistakes of our past.

The Crucible is arguably the greatest pieces of American literature ever written by playwright Arthur Miller. But, in 1996 a film was created to put the words of Miller onto the big silver screen for many people across the nation to see. Although both works were received very well, the two of them have many different elements. These differences from the book to the movie include the setting, the execution of all the victims, the kiss of John and Abigail, where the girls run, and the discussion of John and Goody Proctor. These differences from the book to the movie have affected both in many different ways.

In the everyday live one repeatedly meets people who turn out to have a two-faced personality. In both The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, and The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, we get to know characters with split character traits. While The Crucible is a play and The Scarlet Letter a novel, both works have several points in common even though in the stories they tell they are so very different. Both of these literary works are set in the early days of the Massachusetts colony around the mid 1700’s. In this time period many citizens of both Salem in The Crucible and Boston in The Scarlet Letter were highly religious. So if anything happened that was not able to be solved with a believable explanation, the citizens believed

	Arthur Miller 's play, The Crucible, and the movie with the same name have many differences and similarities, all of which contribute to the individual effectiveness of each in conveying their central message.

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.

The Crucible was written in 1952 by Arthur Miller, who wrote this to write a drama

The movie The Crucible has a few significant and many small differences from the play. These differences are actually really great because it causes the movie to be a lot more dramatic than the play. The major differences are; when Abigail kissed John, the part where all of the afflicted girls and John run to the lake, Abigail asks John to run away with her, there were way more afflicted girls in the movie, and then the “afflicted” girls gang on up on Marry as soon as they found out she had spoken to the court claiming they were lying.

There are many differences between the movie version of The Crucible and the play. Some of the changes may not seem much to you but,those changes can impact how you see a certain character,the tone,or the story itself. The change could have been altering someone’s age or appearance just a tad but,even something like that can make a big difference to the way someone sees the story. For example, the antagonist Abigail Williams had an affair with the protagonist John Proctor. That’s not really problem unless you know their true age.

Books and movies always have differences, some are more incongruous then the rest, but there are always differences, and they can be found. Movie scenes are always more intriguing than a book describing it, but in The Crucible, the girls are dancing in the woods at the beginning, which is not found in the play. That scene is depicted in the playwright, but not acted out. John Proctor is first shown working in the field with a scythe, and that is also not found within the play. Then he is found inside eating with his wife, Elizabeth, instead of sitting outside while having their conversation.

There are many differences and similarities between the way the play The Crucible was written and the way it was recreated in the movie adaptation. Some of the differences in the movie are that it opens with the girls dancing in the forest, Tituba is beaten into confession, and Abigail tries to accuse Hale’s wife of witchcraft. As for the similarities, in both the book and movie Betty was sick after the girls danced in the forest, Mary Warren gave Mrs. Proctor a doll, and the themes. One of the most obvious differences between the book and movie occurs in the first scene.

Reading the book and watching the movie has always been a fierce debate on which is better. Every person has their own argument. I have heard people say all these things; that the absorption into the world is better in a movie, but the pace and detail are better in a book.