Two parents, with a beautiful daughter, well-paying jobs, and a dream house, have a crumbling marriage. Tony Jordan, the husband, flirts with temptation, as his wife, Elizabeth, is at the point of emotional breakdown under the strain. The two fight constantly, as Daneille, their daughter, doesn’t feel loved. Circumstances change for the better, when Elizabeth meets Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman, during work. Clara mentors Elizabeth and shows her the true power of prayer. Elizabeth was played by actress Priscilla Evans Shirer, Tony was portrayed by T.C. Stallings, Alena Pitts was Danielle, and Miss Clara, my favorite character because of her wit and kindness, was characterized by Karen Abercrombie. Overall, I enjoyed this movie because
In chapter 6 throw 7 jesse,and perry are both having a hard time perry got really sick. Jesse is having trouble with his family. They keep fighting with each other,and there on a ship that's taking them to Baltimore. Jesse knows that to get throw Baltimore he has to say that Perry is his slave. I think Perry not going to be ok with that.
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
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
Christophe develops this guilt because he believes if he had done things differently, the family would still be alive. This becomes evident when he states, “this is my fault. I did order the gates closed, fearing an unseen enemy […] Why didn’t I leave the gates open for stragglers? What if there are more out there, frozen in the snow? What did I do in my haste and fear? Sick with guilt, I can barely keep myself up. I’m responsible for that family” (Boyden 399). Identical to Anna May, Christophe was also forced to endure his guilt through the dreams that haunt him. This is clear when he states, “when I sleep, it’s fitful, and I see Satan’s face peering in my window, looking down at me and grinning” (Boyden 399). Christophe finally begins to
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.
Giles Corey is an elderly citizen of Salem. He is a sincere, well-intentioned, though occasionally cranky, old farmer. He is very blunt and straightforward in his thinking and opinions. Corey is known to be on good terms with John Proctor and Francis Nurse. He is famous for his tendency to file lawsuits. His wife Martha Corey is accused of witchcraft, and he himself is accused and accounted for witchcraft and is later on pressed to death with large stones.
Abigail Williams is the most manipulative character in The Crucible. Her disposition allows her to threaten, lie, and act to get her way. After the girls were caught in the forest dancing, singing, and participating in charms, Abigail threatens all the girls to say and go along with the witchcraft accusations. If they said anything she would deal with them, like she dealt with the chicken. The purpose she started all this was to get Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor’s wife, dead. Abigail wanted to be Abigail Proctor, she wanted to marry him, but Elizabeth was in the way. This was one step closer to getting Elizabeth executed and one step closer for Abigail to be John’s wife. The final step into getting the court convinced that Elizabeth was compacted with the devil was when Abigail was
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 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 the Crucible the character Mr. Hale is known for being a well balanced and strong willed man when it comes to knowing the truth. He works to develop that people should not believe in a faith that only brings death in life. He symbolizes hope for the people that do not have any. Mr. Hale’s mentality, actions and conversation show that there is nothing more important than the truth. Miller uses Mr . Hale’s mentality, actions and conversations to influence how the other characters are thinking about their own faith.
In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller which was written in 1692 about the severe Salem witch trials. The play incorporates a great deal of generally good people and an abundance of evil actions. Miller tells a story of those who experienced the trials first hand and played important roles in the time period. Many of the main characters in the story play both sides of good and evil which makes this a morality play. Throughout the play, we never truly understand if the evil actually comes from the devil or from the minds of the individual.
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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.
Publilius Syrus said that “a good reputation is more valuable than money,” and John Proctor, who respects his reputation, would very much agree with this statement. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the characters go through inner alterations of their character and motives. John Proctor shows that he has developed internal changes throughout the plot of The Crucible. Proctor’s main concern remains his reputation but it shifts from how the others in the village view him to how he views himself. John Proctor has high worth in his reputation. After all, a good reputation can determine the religious rules and court hearings for an individual. As the plot of The Crucible progresses, John Proctor goes from the mentality of concerning more of the belief of the public, then to valuing his personal integrity.
The character of Reverend John Hale in The Crucible by Arthur Miller is perhaps the most dynamic in the whole of the play, going through many changes before its end. He begins as another reverend from the town of Beverly brought to Salem to clear any signs of witchcraft within the town, but the as the play progresses the things Hale thought he knew begin to blur.