The Crucible Comparison

The play picks up right after this, in the opening scene and beginning of Act I, when Parris is trying to figure out what is wrong with Betty, his daughter, who is sick and laying still without blinking or breathing. We find out soon that they are questioning all the girls about witchcraft, because the dancing is forbidden in Salem and the minister, Parris, claims to have seen “Tituba waving her arms over the fire” and heard “screeching and gibberish coming from her mouth”. He also claims to have seen someone running naked through the woods (Miller 1130-1131). Parris has denied company many times until Mrs. Putnam comes in. She says that Betty flew and informs him that Mr. Collins “saw her goin’ over Ingersoll’s barn, and come down light as a bird” (Miller 1132). The use of flight in this context symbolizes a largeness of spirit as Mr. Collins, as well as the rest of the town, knows that the girls are being prosecuted for

In 1952 a play was written by Arthur Miller, about events that happened in Salem in 1692. The play was about affairs, accusations, and innocent people being accused of witches. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Abigail and Mary Warren are introduced as two separate people. Although people might see Abigail and Mary Warren as two separate people and nothing alike, they are more alike than meet's the eye. Abigail and Mary Warren have three things in common; they are both are deceitful, they both dishonest, and they are both apprehensive.

The Salem Witch Trials were an extremely controversial period of time in our history. This was a time of suspicion and accusation of many innocent women and men that led to hysteria and complete turmoil in Salem Village. The Crucible portrays the Salem Witch Trials in a dramatic sense, but there are many similarities between the movie and the actual events. We can use these unusual events to compare to our own lives and learn from the mistakes of our past.

Act one begins with Reverend Parris praying over her daughter, Betty Parris, who lies unconscious on her bed. Through conversations between Reverend Parris and his niece Abigail Williams, and between several girls, the audience learns that these girls, including Abigail and Betty, were engaged in occultic activities in the forest lead by Tituba, Parris’ slave from Barbados. Parris caught them and jumped from a bush startling the girls. Betty fainted and had not recovered. During this session, Abigail drank chicken blood to kill Elizabeth Proctor. She tells the girls that she will kill anyone who mutters a word about what happened. The townspeople do not know exactly what the girls were doing but there are rumors of witchcraft.

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 play begins in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, whose daughter, Betty, lays ill. Parris lives with his daughter and his seventeen-year old niece, Abigail Williams, an orphan who witnessed her parents' murder by the Indians. Parris has sent for Reverend Hale of Beverly, believing his daughter's illness stems from supernatural explanations. Betty became ill when her father discovered her dancing in the woods with Abigail, Tituba (the Parris' slave from Barbados) and several other local girls. Already there are rumors that Betty's illness is due to witchcraft, but Parris tells Abigail that he cannot admit that he found his daughter and niece dancing like heathens in the forest. Abigail says that she will admit to dancing and accept the punishment, but will not admit to witchcraft. Abigail and Parris discuss rumors about the girls: when they were dancing one of the girls was naked, and Tituba was screeching gibberish. Parris also brings up rumors that Abigail's former employer, Elizabeth Proctor, believes that Abby is immoral.

Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible and David Rothkopf’s TED Talk How Fear Drives America Politics are two significant texts that emphasise a fundamental political message that remains timeless throughout both the Puritan society within the world of the play and the contemporary society of Miller and Rothkopf. Ultimately the use of fear in order to gain political advantage and control the masses is a profound power present in the political dimension that is explored within both these texts and offers personal insight into the McCarthy era of the Cold War that Miller was subjected to and the post-9/11 hysteria that gripped America when Rothkopf was emerging as a prominent journalist. Miller’s depiction of Abigail and the girls in particular and

The frequent lies cause the trials to get out of hand. Lies are so common in the play that the reader can see them in the first act. When Reverend Parris finds all the girls dancing playing in the forest late at night, he asks his niece Abigail about it. However, according to Abigail, “We did dance, Uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there's the whole of it.” (ACT 1, Scene 1). Abigail is not telling her uncle the truth because, not only were they dancing, but they were dancing naked, with a boiling animal in the middle, and Abigail even drank blood trying to cast a curse on Elizabeth Proctor hoping that she could take her place as John Proctor's wife. This one lie started everything. All the other girls decided to join in on the lie because nobody wanted to get in trouble. All of the lies going around Salem led to a general fear that witches and the devil were loose in the

Anyways Abigail friend named Tituba seemed to be a real witch because it seemed that people had proof she was . Tituba wanted Mister Parris killed because he would have slaves and white people belonging to him and I think Tituba was one of them. Tituba knew that the devil was going for the innocent flesh first because it was easier for him .Abigail wanted to be a part of Jesus again ,she seemed tired of dancing with the devil or doing his troubled work and she was too tired of everything he or the other witches would do . The whole village wanted to send them to court because the witches or the deficient to be witches didn't/don't anything just sway in the forest and they seem that they realized that Tituba was really a witch because he apparently k how to do witchcraft and I think that Abigail and Betty were learning from Tituba . Tituba didn't really want anything bad to happen , it seemed that he just wanted to do it for seeming entertaining for him and everybody in the village took it the wrong way and wanted them to be hung I believe or just wanted them to be punished

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a famous play which was written in the early 1950’s. The Crucible is a play based upon the events in 1692, which led to the ‘Salem Witch Trials’, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft. This was due to the hysteria caused by a group of girls accusing innocent people of witch craft. The play was set in Salem, Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. Salem was a very isolated and puritanical community, so their biggest fear was the devil and witchcraft. A person being accused of witchcraft was the worst thing possible in this society.

The Crucible Abigail is a liar and a deceiver. Arthur Miller is the Arthur for The Crucible. In the play, Abigail lies to her uncle about what was happening in the forest when he discovers Abigail and the rest of her friends dancing in the woods. The setting of the plot of the story is in Salem, Massachusetts.

The movie began with women singing and dancing around a fire. One woman named Abigail Williams, who was having an affair with a farmer of the town, John Proctor, wanted his wife dead and wished it during the fire. The next morning, two children in the town were not able to wake up. A Reverend, John Hale, was called into the town to examine the girls and brought the idea of witchcraft into the village. When Abigail and her friends heard about the witchcraft, they began falsely accusing numerous innocent people in the village.

After watching ‘The Crucible’ and ‘Just Ask My Children’ I see many similarities and plenty of differences between them. Both were great stories/movies. In both the play and the movie, people all over the place were being accused of things they have never done. The townspeople in the play were being accused of being a witch. While the people in the movie were being accused of molestation. The play took time in an earlier time around 1692, before any electronics to give proof of innocence. The movie took place in the 1980’s. Although many were accused and not many people believed them, it was possible to show more proof than they could have in the play. They each had terrible

The movie the crucible is based upon a play that was written by an author by the name of Arthur Miller. The movie is based around the Salem witch trial which took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Where a bunch of young girls in the community of Salem had just simply went into the woods with an African American slave woman named tituba to create a love potion for young men to fall in love with them like any other normal young girl might think would just be fun. The girls were then seen dancing naked in the woods by reverend parris which happens to be one of the girl’s uncle and this is pretty much where all hell broke loose in Salem. (The Crucible 1996)

The Crucible book written by Arthur Miller  based on a real life story that happened in 1692 to 1693 In Salem Massachusetts was based on lies and injustice, genre is play, The author's purpose is to inform the audience about what happened during the witch trials .  The Salem Village was full Puritans and they was very strict based on church rules. People that missed church regularly will be justified as a witch or malignant and will be put to shame on a stockade. People that break the rules of the strict religious town will hang or live if such person decides to confess, If they confess the accused person will still be imprisoned and not killed. Also if you was accused of practicing witchcraft you will be accused by the people and go