The Crucible Character Analysis

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.

The Crucible is set in the seventeenth- century Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trial. It starts of with Reverend Parris, a man very concerned about his reputation, accusing his orphaned niece Abigail Williams of taking part in witchcraft after his daughter is unconscious after dancing in the woods. A technique used by Parris is characterization, which utilizes the thoughts, actions and dialogues in the construction of characters. Arthur Miller uses characterization to build the character of Reverend Samuel Parris as arrogant , selfish, and deceptive.

In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller involves a character named John Proctor, an even-tempered farmer, who cared about how others saw him as. Procter was a married man to Elizabeth Proctor and a father of three as well. Throughout the book, Procter is shown as a man obsessed with his status to protect his name. The following quote says “... there is evidence to suggest that he had a sharp and biting way with hypocrites. He was the kind of man--powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led….”, this shows he was the type of a person to unleash his temper with people often, although it was good because he was well known for revealing hypocrisy. This gave him honor in his town and respect by his

Over three centuries ago, many people were put to their torturous death by being falsely accused of witchcraft. Innocent people were accused on a hunch but for no reason. People accused individuals of witchcraft to gain land or items that they wanted. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Abigail’s need for Power, love, and attention depict her as an evil individual.

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 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

The crucible is a story about the Salem witchcraft trials and Abigail Williams is one of the main characters. Abigail was one of the main accusers in the Salem witch trials,which led to the arrest and imprisonment of more than one hundred and fifty innocent people suspected of witchcraft. Abigail deserves the blame for the outcome of the play. Abigail has a little thing for the proctor and he knows,because he had an affair on his wife. In the beginning of the story on page 22 it states the proctor saying “Abby, you’ll put it out of mind. It’ll not be coming for you more.” That meant that the proctor knew that he had done wrong, but Abigail doesn’t really care because she keeps going for him.

American playwright and theatrical figure in the twentieth-century, Arthur Miller, once said, “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” Though he did not include this quote in the context of his famous work, The Crucible, his wise words can also be relevant in this play. The play takes place during the era of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. In his composition, he includes the story of Mr. and Mrs. Proctor, a married couple living outside of Salem in the time period of the trials. Abigail Williams, the family’s servant, has an affair with Mr. Proctor, which becomes a greatly kept secret before prior to the events of the play. Proctor then fully experiences the consequences of betraying his wife, which include shame of betrayal and fear of

Abigail begins to have authority over the other girls in the town of Salem. They follow her league in every lie that Abigail gets them caught up into. In Act I page 10, Abigail lies to Parris about what really happened in the woods and what he really saw. “Uncle, we did dance; let you tell them I confessed it and I’ll be whipped if I must be. But they’re speakin’ of witchcraft. Betty’s not witched.” She doesn’t state the real reason as to why they were in the woods to Parris and his suspicions raise up. Abigail is in total denial and somehow convinces Parris that he has mistaken what he saw. This raises up questions about witchcraft and the presence of the Devil, so Abigail starts with accusations with people in the town. From that moment

Bad things happen from people making decisions based on lies and fear, but evil things

Abigail Williams is the cause to all of the hysteria in Arthur Miller’s book The Crucible. In The Crucible Abigail’s parents are killed by Native Indian’s which leaves her character as a deceitful, untrustworthy, selfish, delusional, and excessively manipulative woman. Due to these character traits Abigail William’s is given cause as to why she was the reason for Salem being left in a state of hysteria. Abigail manipulated her salve Tituba, and a cluster of girls to practice witchcraft in the forest in an attempt to kill her lover’s wife, Elizabeth. When she is gets caught both her slave, Tituba, and Abigail falsely list names of women who committed witchcraft.

In The Crucible, the Salem Witch Trial was taking place. Everyone was accusing everyone of witchcraft left and right, leading to countless death penalties and hangings. The society in which The Crucible took place was remarkable unique. All of the citizens believed that God was speaking through government officials. So, if person A accused person B of witchcraft, the court couldn’t say that they were wrong. If the court was wrong, that meant that God was wrong. Since society during this time period was so structured in the beliefs of witchcraft, anyone could be easily manipulated. Young Abigail danced in the forest with her friends, wishing death and misfortunes on others and drank blood, which was considered witchcraft and extremely frowned upon in society, which led to the death penalty. Abigail was the only one who really committed witchcraft, but she blamed it on everyone else she possibly could in hopes that she would never get caught. When Abigail blamed the situation on Tituba, everyone immediately turned on