The Crucible Character Analysis

By using symbolism, Edward Albee provides us with an ending that is conclusive and satisfactory. “Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf”, “ I am George” ( Martha). Albee choses to the end the play in a rather daunting sense. A joke and song that Martha has been singing throughout the play comes back to haunt her in the end. During the course of the play, Martha annoys and mocks George with the song, however, subconsciously, Martha herself was afraid of Virginia Woolf. The central action in the play is the ruthless fighting between George and Martha and it seems as though always has the upper hand. Until, George utters four simple but deadly words. “Our son is… dead”. In saying these words, he has turned the tables in his favor. She is dropped down

a novel about a naughty boy-child who killed his mother and father dead...And Daddy said... "Look here, I will not let you publish such a thing"(Albee,133,4). Another one of George's big insecurities was an incident from his childhood. For one of the most hurtful insults she reveals this secret to the guests. "And you want to know the clincher? You want to know what the big brave Georgie said to Daddy?....Georgie said ...But sir it isn't a novel at all... this is the truth...this really happened .... TO ME!"(136,7). But Martha also had some skeletons in her closet; and George knew which ones to bring out. One of Martha's biggest insecurities is her infertility. In the final act titled "Exorcism",George exposes her secret to equal the humiliation . The mentioning of their imaginary son leads George to triumph in the last battle and brings Martha to the most excruciating pain and torture. "An exorcism serves to remove all that is unreal from both George and Martha. An exorcism of final despair eliminates all fantasy and returns them to reality, or to the point where new rules and new games can be advised"(Lewis,89).

From the start of the play, the reader is lead to believe that Martha has the other hand and she is the most powerful in the relationship. Being mean, brutally honesty and cynical makes people to believe she is powerful. On a night similar to the night of this plays, George and Martha create a son. This is a figment of their imaginations, to hold together their failing marriage. The rules to keep the son alive with in them, is to never speak of this son to any one else. Well Martha told her guests about their son. George seeing an opportunity to get Martha back for exposing their lies decides that their son dies tonight. In a game George created to expose every ones lies, whether it be Nick marring Honey because she got pregnant and has money or Martha's fake son, No one will leave their house tonight not embarrassed and exposed. George is using his knowledge of the truth, as a power against people. He tells Martha in front of her guest

They are a couple that lives a charmed life on paper but are bored in reality. The abuse that they throw at each other is their way of bringing adventure into their lives. They make up a world that is full of the experiences that help them fulfill that dream. George and Martha will do whatever it takes to live said dream and don't care what lies need to be told to accomplish it.

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, it takes place in Salem, Massachusetts during colonial America. Throughout the story a group of girls makes accusations a mass of people of practicing witchcraft, one of the worst crimes to commit during that period, and people are being sentenced to hang for denying witchery. In the Crucible there are many lessons that Arthur Miller wants to teach you. To me a lot of the lessons that were taught in this story are important but I feel like one of them is the most important. Arthur Miller demonstrates that one of the lessons implied in the story is people’s character and how it affects those people and others. Examples of character are Giles Corey, John Proctor, Abigail Williams.

In this work of literature, George Milton 's faced with a situation of what is right and wrong and which inner sense to listen to. George 's long time friend and mentally handicapped friend Lennie Smalls has just killed Curley 's wife, inside of a barnyard accidentally. Lennie attempts to run away from the whole situation, but George knows exactly where he will be, and that is at the exact spot he told him to go to if there was trouble. As George arrives at the river Lennie was instructed to go to, George realizes he has a great problem, should he kill his long time best friend and save him from the swarming angry mob of ranchers, or turn him in and let them have there way. As George 's inner senses battle, he realizes what he must do and that is to put Lennie out of his misery and self entrapment and set him free once and for all. George makes Lennies death quick and painless as any good friend would, but he can not seem to shake the sense of guilt and anguish he is experiencing. As George lovingly kills Lennie he portrays his bravery and sense of what is right and wrong all by listening to what his inner senses and consciousness led him towards. John Steinbecks use of literary terms enhances the sense of bravery and drama that this scene of a friend killing another brings. The mood that John Steinbeck sets for George 's attitude towards Lennie is

George Milton and Lennie Smalls face many obstacles in Of Mice and Men with tolerance and rationality. When constructing a background on these characters, Steinbeck includes an occasion in which Lennie is accused of rape. This protagonist (who is assumed of mild intellectual disability) wants to feel a woman’s dress for sensory pleasure, but the woman reacts in fear of being sexually assaulted by Lennie. This causes the two to flee from the town of Weed, and take this incident as learning opportunity. “Lennie - if you jus’ happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an’ hide in the brush,” (Steinbeck 15). In this piece of dialogue where George is talking to Lennie, George is acknowledging the naturality of his experience with plans going off course, and he uses this as a way to secure his and Lennie’s safety by taking precautionary measures. George’s enlightened viewpoint on this situation is vital in Steinbeck’s attempts to reveal the truth about the habits of life duration.

In the third and fourth chapter of the book, Candy, George, and Lennie are the center of attention due to their friendships. The first lesson of friendship is demonstrated by George when he is again talking to Slim and shares, “When his Aunt Clara died, Lennie just come along with me out workin. Got kinda used to each other after a little while” (Steinbeck 40). George has known Lennie for a long time and has been trustworthy since he met him. The second lesson that shows friendship is when Candy is sad about his dog and sulks, “Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with him” (Steinbeck 44). Candy is mourning over the death of his long time friendship with his dog. His dog death's has given him loneliness because it was his only friend. The third lesson that shows friendship is when Lennie is talking to Crook and he answers, “Sure. Me an' him goes ever' place together” (Steinbeck 70). Lennie expresses that he doesn't want to be alone and cares about his friendship with George. This proves that the theme friendship is continuously expressed throughout the novel.

The play criticizes the ideal family and social norms set in the 1950s. Nick and Honey are polite and described as “[...] blond, well put together, good looking” (Albee THE PLAYERS). They use a certain vocabulary where they are extremely respectful, when entering George and Martha’s home, Honey says “Oh, isn’t this lovely. Yes indeed… very handsome” (21). On the other hand, Martha demonstrates the opposite of the perfect family when she greeted the guests by yelling “SCREW YOU!” (19) and by telling them to “Throw your stuff down anywhere and c’mon in.” (20). This represents two completely opposite sides of the social norm. It is clear that George and Martha would like to fit in as a perfect family. Martha was speaking to herself as if she were

To begin, George and Jennie were put into high pressure situations that tested both their resolve and faithfulness to each other. Their peers, the people around, could mold and shift their characters. While George was around Lennie so frequently, George’s dynamic character changed to be a sympathetic and

Throughout John Steinbeck’s, “Of Mice and Men” many different types of conflicts are shown. Two of the central conflicts that the main protagonist George faces is his relationship with Lennie and the collision of his dreams with the harsh reality of his circumstances. Through this conflict, George is able to reconsider his relationship with Lennie, as well as think about his true reality. Near the beginning of the novel, George talks to Lennie and expresses to him how they are different and are able to get through tough times easier because they have each other. "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.

The battle fought between George and Martha is played with the weapons that each sex has perfected. In American Plays and Playwrights of the Contemporary Theater, Lewis notes "Martha has instinct for the right wound; her tongue for the cutting word and her body for the most humiliating insult"(89). George has a greater vision of cruelty. When threatened by Martha, to cheat on him with one of the guests, George pretends not to care in order to upset his wife."I'm necking with one of the guests" "Good...good. You go right on" "Good?" "Yes, good... good for you, why don't you go back to your necking and stop bothering me? I want to read" (Albee,171,2). At the end of the play, George triumphs in the battle by using what he knows will hurt Martha the most; their son. Amacher states in Edward Albee, "All of the games, in terms of Albee's purpose, relate directly or indirectly to George and Martha's attempts to hurt each other"(93).

In the excerpt given, the audience will dramatically begin to feel more uncomfortable as George and Martha progresses the scene. The sense of uneasiness arises when George sits next to Honey and states “Hi, sexy.” This is extremely uneasy for the audience because George did this in front of both his Wife and Honey’s husband as if there was no problem with it. Furthermore, George again disrespects Nick by calling Honey angle tit. This yet again would cause the audience to become more uncomfortable because he keeps on acting as if Nick is not even there. Ultimately, George’s total disrespect towards Nick by making moves on his wife creates a great sense of uneasiness in the audience. Later in the excerpt, Martha decides to play George’s game

When George and Martha finally begin to converse about their son, it becomes problematic to decipher which stories are authentic and which are fake. For instance, when Martha begins to discuss and describe the appearance of her child it is hard to decipher if her story is real or fake. As Martha describes her son, “And his eyes were green … green with … if you peered so deep into them … so deep … bronze … bronze parentheses around the irises. . . (Albee 233),” one does not know if Martha is actually describing her son, or making it up as she goes along. When Martha brings the story of their son to close into reality, George immediately and figuratively kills him off when he recognizes the line between illusion and reality has become dangerously

At the beginning of the novel when the reader is first introduced to George and Lennie, they are first described as in “The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws”(Steinbeck 2). Together they sat at a bank and drank some water from the not moving green pool. For a long while together they walked four miles from where there bus dropped them off. Lennie's aunt Clara passed away and since he wasn’t smart enough to live in the world they lived in George said “Your Aunt Clara wouldn’t want you running off by yourself, even if she is dead”(Steinbeck 13). When candy got his dog put down he regretted not doing it himself. After Lennie killed Curley’s wife and ran off, George knew that moment, when he saw her dead, that he was going to kill Lennie himself because he was his best friend. George came quickly out of a bush to find