The Crucible Character Analysis

The play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, takes place in the town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. This time in Salem, witchcraft was suspected of almost everyone in the town. Preserving one’s reputation becomes recurring concept throughout the play. The witchcraft accusations are usually made by people that have a biased view against others, which is why everyone tries to make sure their reputation looks well with the rest of the town. This concept is proven through the characters of John Proctor, Reverend Parris and Reverend Hale. These three characters go to great lengths to protect what the town of Salem thinks of them.

In 1692, Salem, Massachusetts was ruled by Puritans. Puritans are known for the strict lifestyle that they pursue. In Act One, the reader is introduced to a scene where Reverend Parris sits beside his daughter’s bed; wondering what has caused her bedridden illness. He later learns, that assumptions of witchcraft in Salem have spread and that his daughter, Betty, is affiliated with these rumors. Parris does not want to believe that his daughter could have been exposed to such dark magic, but the night before he encounters his daughter, his niece, Abigail, and some other girls dancing in the woods around a large caulderon. As he figures out what to do, Parris keeps the event to himself. ''We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house.'' (Miller 27) If the townspeople of Salem realize that witchcraft possesses the Reverend’s home, his reputation and personal wealth will go down the drain. Reverend Parris’

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a one of a kind, outstanding play that remains relevant from the 1950’s through today. The Crucible depicts life in the 1600s during the Salem witch trials. Arthur Miller crafts an intricately layered story with many points of view from a variety of characters. Although the story takes place in 1692 the lessons and values taught have importance in our society today. One of the lessons highlighted in The Crucible is how ignorance can affect communities and even have catastrophic results that may last many years or completely change the dynamic of an era.

The Family Crucible is a story about the Brice family who is recommended by Claudia’s psychiatrist to go to family therapy due to the fact that she has not been making progress in individual sessions. The Brice family comes to meet with Dr. Carl Whitaker and Dr. Augustus Napier, who co-facilitate family therapy throughout the story. The family is made up of five people: Claudia, the IP; Carolyn, mother; Laura, the sister; Don, the brother; and David, the father. The family is coming into therapy because there have been mounting concerns about Claudia and her behavior—acting out, staying out late, some fairly typical teenage stuff.

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor, the protagonist, is a farmer in his middle thirties. The author gives little to no detailed physical description of him, but from Proctor’s speech, we can still picture him as a strong and powerful man who is able to keep every situation under the control, the kind of personality which earns him deep respect and even fear from the people in town. On the other hand, Abigail Williams, the antagonist, plays an inferior role as an orphan who has no social status in a place like Salem. Over the course of the play, John Proctor is absolutely awakened and transformed by Abigail Williams. In the end, he overcomes the crucible by releasing himself from his guilt of

The witch trials in this play were based on actual events that happened in Salem in 1692. Arthur Miller’s 1953 The Crucible is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials. His reasoning for writing it was because everyone was hysteric about the Soviet Union and communism trying to make its way over to the United States. It was like a modern day witch hunt. In the play, Abigail Williams and a group of girls get caught in the woods. They were dancing and doing other things that puritan’s looked down upon. The girls were caught by Reverend Parris, and soon after his daughter became ‘ill’. The girls then started saying that witches came to them and told them to do bad things. They sent innocent people to hang. After studying Arthur Miller’s

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 The Crucible, by Arthur Miller was based on the Salem, witch trials when the people of the town where accusing each other of witchcraft and those held for questioning would stand trial had a choice to be valor. In Miller’s portrayal of the ghastly, sickening inquiry of witchcraft many people in the 1690’s were people of the township were maintaining guard for their beliefs; while others of the community of Salem were cowards who took the easy out of the accusations they were on trial. The townspeople of Salem are going through a day people are courageous even in a way others could not be or were never suppose to be. Those characters display their courage in the town at the time of need, John Proctor is a selfless man when only stating

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller expresses themes such as superstition, malice, and injustice. The book compares the unfair times in the 1950s to the Salem Witch Trials. Women were falsely accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death. The people in Salem believed the devil roamed somewhere within the town. Rivalries between neighbors were taken advantage of. People were accused by others who wanted their land or other belongings. Once one was accused, they either had to admit to witchcraft or be executed. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller addresses the themes of superstition, malice, and injustice in a way that indicates society’s tendency to believe everything they hear.

The Crucible Character Abigail Williams is a very unique person, with a confusing relationship with John Proctor, she very much connects to 1992 "Skinny Toddlers" by the Filthy Moustaches. In the story the Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Hale a reverend from out of town who came to the small village of Salem to exorcise the demons from it's people in the song "The mint is in my Armpit" by Alien Lawnmower, it suggest change in nature and flaw in character, this basically describes what Hale is there to do in Salem. Jerry Doughnut has a way of understanding people, he has the courage to pull himself out of the worst situation with the best attitude; Reverend Hale from the Crucible could have used that wisdom of Jerry many times during his struggles

Abigail is the young niece of Reverend Parris, and she worked as a servant in the Proctor household. Abigail entices Proctor into an affair, which goes against the Puritan religion; “evil”. In the very first act, we learn that Abigail, Betty and Tituba were found dancing in the forest by Reverend Parris “...my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest?!... I saw Tituba waving her arms over the fire...and I heard screeching and gibberish comin’ from her mouth...”(Miller 1.1). Reverend Parris is questioning Abigail about what was happening in the forest and if it was witchcraft.

As a response to the growing hysteria revolving around the Red Scare during the 1950s, Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible. He crafted The Crucible to use the historical events of the Salem Witch Trials to emphasize themes of human nature that reoccurred during the events of the “McCarthy Era,”. The Crucible includes the themes of the desire to gain, or remain in power for the purpose of self preservation, as well as how fear acts as a strong motivator, to represent the natural themes of humanity. In terms of specific examples of human nature in early American society, Miller highlighted the matters of intolerance, and people’s concern for their own reputation in Salem.

To begin, fear starts the plot by Betty Parris’ mysterious illness supposedly brought on by witchcraft, which was just Betty’s way of dealing with being caught doing something she knew her father, Rev. Parris, would never approve of. In Puritan times, dancing was strictly prohibited and the punishment was whipping, which is stated by Mary Warren in her and Abigail's conversation admitting to dancing, Mary States that she, Abigail, would only be whipped. Secondly, the reader discovers how jealousy affects the plot. For Example, Abigail is jealous of Elizabeth Proctor because of John’s love for his wife, John and Abigail had an affair while his wife was sick. When the girls were caught dancing, the real purpose was a plot to kill Goody Proctor, hence how jealousy starts the plot. Finally, mass hysteria was a key part of the development of the plot. For instance, when Mary Warren tried to admit that all of the accusations were pretense, then the girls of Salem started to claim Mary’s spirit was attacking them, which lead to a panic spreading throughout the

Even if someones was telling out the truth, still they would end of in jail or be accused because of how unfair the world could be. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in the 1950s. The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The author was inspired by the aspects of McCarthyism in the 1950s. Arthur Miller focused on the inequality of the Salem witch trials and how intense attitude can lead up to unexpected results. Miller’s used this to show the similarities between the 1692 unreasonable witch hunt trial and his life in the 1950s during the Red Scare. The Crucible is a symbol of the Red Scare because both The Crucible and “The Great Fear” were accused the innocents and put them into trouble even when they were truthful.

The greater the tragedy someone witnesses the more sympathy the will have for any tragedy no matter how small. In the book The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Proctor is put Faced with multiple tragedies. Even though John Proctor starts out as narcissistic and apathetic he starts to become more empathetic to all people and their problems because situations where it is difficult to not feel empathy made him realize it’s the right thing to do.