The Crucible Character Analysis

In the play The Crucible many of the characters learn things about themselves as well as others. Discuss the insight gained by the characters of Elizabeth Proctor, Reverend Hale, and John Proctor.

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.

Another thing Miller illustrates, through the character of Parris, is that trying to keep a good reputation will make one focus mainly on themselves, making them less empathetic and blind to the struggles of others. Parris is not the only one guilty of this though. In a piece titled “Reputation of The Crucible” it says, “John Proctor and Parris both were very concerned that their reputation was at stake in many different instances in this play The Crucible” (Reputation of the Crucible). Our reputations, like the image of the characters John Proctor and Parris, are always at stake and it is important to be careful not to do things that will interfere with our status. Though not the only one, Parris is a major offender of letting his image and his reputation cloud his judgement and even get in the way of his duties as a father. The piece later states, “When the play first begins, Parris fears that Abigail, his niece, is convicted of being a witch because of her intolerable actions, and the witchcraft that associates with his daughter’s coma will cause much chaos and bring down his power as a Reverend in Salem. Parris feels that power and reputation is the most important thing to him as a

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

To everyone Parris was a good man, he was a Pastor. In Act I he speaks to his niece Abigail and says to her, “Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character. I have given you a home, child. I have put clothes upon your back—now give me an upright answer. Your name in the town—it is entirely white, is it not? (Parris 63)” Parris can’t believe what he is hearing in the town that Abigail was out in the woods dancing and trying to conjure spirits. He has been keeping his name clean for many years and now Abigail might mess that up so he tries to tell Abigail that she needs to stop. In Act III Parris tries to accuse Proctor of being un-Christian because he dislikes Proctor. He states, “Such a Christian that will not come to church but once in a month (Parris 116).” Proctor is trying to get the attention off of his niece so that his good name will not be soiled by her wrongdoing. He would rather accuse Proctor of being un-Christian than see his good name be destroyed. In Act IV Proctor is about to sign a paper that states that he was the one who was dealing with the devil, even though he wasn’t just so he could save his wife. Parris is yelling at Danforth, “I will strike the village that Proctor confess. Let him sign it. Let him sign it (Parris

In the play, The Crucible,by Arthur Miller.Many characters have desires that drive them to pursue certain things.This affects the plot in many ways.In this puritan society,people strongly cared what other people think of them and how their reputation stands in the village.They always strive to make sure their actions reflect wisely on their names.A major motivation John Proctor,Abagail,and Parris share is pride in their names,which eventually leads to their ultimate downfall.

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the characters John Proctor and Reverend Parris are some of the major characters during the course of the play. John Proctor is a farmer in Salem that lives in the outskirts of town, and is religious like the rest of Salem but rarely makes it to the church due to living far away have having large amounts of work. He is seen as strong and confident by most town members, however “Proctor… has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud” (Miller 20-21). Reverend Parris is Salem’s religious leader. While he does regularly speak to the entire town, he has very little confidence and “believed he was being persecuted wherever he went, despite his best efforts to win people and God over to his side” (Miller 3). By comparing and contrasting both Parris and Proctor’s actions and beliefs throughout the play, underlying truths regarding self-realization and the consequences of our actions can be discovered.

Reputation; what significance does this one word have that a Spanish proverb states, “He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living”? According to the townspeople in theocratic Salem, an individual was to become prestigious and sacrifice everything for a good name. There was no such thing as private moralities, instead, a person’s reputation was a public matter showcased for the town to judge and discern. Nothing is more unimaginable than having to lose an influential position. Throughout the play “The Crucible”, individuals base their actions on safeguarding or earning a standing. Miller uses the characterization of Reverend Parris and John Proctor to demonstrate that when one exclusively focuses on the preservation of their reputation, one is more likely t o use outrageous actions and deception to hide one’s faults.

Pride can become something that will lead a man to shame and destruction. In The Crucible this happened to one of the main characters, John Proctor, which also is the one of the Tragic Hero in the book. The Crucible is about when some town people in Salem was accused of being witches after four girls were found dancing in the woods. After 200 people were accused of being witches in 1963, 20 people were either hung or crushed by many stones. In the Crucible John Proctor, the tragic hero had a weakness as pride eventually forcing him to face a serious decision and suffering more than he should.

In “The Crucible” the most valuable asset to a Puritans is reputation, and how good of a Christian they are. But both these meant nothing when it came to accusations of witchcraft, those accused were automatically guilty because there never was a way to prove whether they were a witch or not. For the sake of his friend's reputations and his, John Proctor had refused to sign a false confession. John rather die, than lie to everyone and have his named badly marked in the community. It was for his reputation that Reverend Samuel Parris chose to stick with the accusations, even though he finds out that it was a lie. In the book, we see how different and similar both these characters are, both being religious and caring about their reputations. They see themselves as authoritative figures, Parris ruling the town and Proctor ruling his home. But they are very different, always challenging each other and on opposite sides during the trails. Proctor ends up fighting for his life and Parris losing everything he loves.

Calvin Coolidge once said “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave”. Unfortunately, all some people do is hurt and take away from others instead of give. These people are not capable of caring and respecting other people. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is sadly one of those kinds of people who does not hold honor because of the way he treats people around him.

John proctor is a well know respected farmer in Salem. He is a man of his word; however, he has his own dirty little secrets. He had a slight adventure with his ex-maiden Abigail William. These secrets are haunting his character which affects his love life with his wife Elizabeth Proctor.Proctors situation is different from the others because his is focused within his morals and making things right with his lovely wife and finally earn his forgiveness. In Proctor’s case his good name doesn’t mean anything if he stop these girl’s pretense from the town and most importantly if he can’t have wife’s forgiveness.

In “The crucible” reputation plays a major role in each character. For each character, reputation is what they live for and worry more about how society sees them. When their reputation is in trouble, they become a different person. Reverend Parris, Abigail, and Proctor become desperate and insane individuals once their reputation is in danger. Reverend Parris was not a major character in the story but he at the very beginning he showed that he worried more about his reputation than his daughter and Nieces safety.

Proctor decides to die an honest and noble man, so he tears up a document he had and he got hanged along with many

John Proctor, a good man who is known as someone who defends the people he cares about. He has good morals, is the good citizen. John is one who cares and worked hard to protect his name. This is why it was hard for him to admit he had an affair with Abigail Williams. Also when he to choose to sign a paper saying that he was consorting with the devil, this was quite hard due to his pride and honor. He would rather die than