Who Is Giles Corey Mature In The Crucible

Comparing between Giles Corey’s real life and Giles Corey’s play. From The Crucible, he is a rich farmer, foolish and naive man who lives with his wife(Martha Corey) in the southwest corner of Salem Village. During the Salem Witch Trial, her wife is accused to the court by Giles accidentally finds his wife’s behavior’s difference. On the other hand, he is also arrested by Ann Putnam telling judge that he is relate to the witchcraft as well. But in Giles Corey’s real life, he is a honest, faithful and churchman who marries three times.

Giles Corey and I are both cunning. Giles Corey is cunning by knowing the court system. He shows this when Danforth tries to accuse Giles of contempt of court but Giles says, “This is a hearing; you cannot clap me for the contempt of a hearing,” which shows Giles’ knowledge in the court system. I’m cunning by thinking of ideas thoroughly and quickly. I’m able to think of a plan quick

In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Miller creates several characters that do not have many direct characterizations. This play shows the thoughts of some of the people in Salem during the time of the witch hunts. These people also had accused their neighbors simple for more land, animals, and money. Some of the characters offer a lot of indirect characterization such as Giles Corey. In the beginning of the play Giles Corey is suspicious of witches like most of Salem, but over the course of the play he believes it was pure superstition.

In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible preserving one’s reputation is a major theme. The play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, revolving around witch trials in 1693. In the play there are two men, John Proctor and Giles Corey, whom of which both try to protect their good name and reputation. Throughout the play they portray the idea of protecting their reputations.

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, was a historical play written about the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692-93. The Salem witch trials created mass hysteria throughout the entire village of Salem, which was also mainly inhabited by Puritans. Puritans had a set ideal of firm beliefs that managed how they lived. Essentially, they were living as an elect, which meant they (referring to the Puritans) had a place in heaven for the righteous acts they have done in the physical world. Meaning, any sinful acts could potentially hinder the chances of entering heaven as an elect. The Crucible, questioned everything the Puritans abided by. It questioned the basic morals of a pure lifestyle, adultery and

The Crucible is a complex and intriguing novel with events, characters and themes comparable to almost every period of human history. It is common for humans to fear change and what is unknown, in the play The Crucible this is witchcraft and the devil, in more recent times it can be seen in post World War Two and Cold War United States, through McCarthyism. The themes in the crucible are as important to people in the 21st century as in Salem in 1692. These include justice, reputation, hysteria, intolerance and empowerment. All of these are common themes throughout human history. The characters in The Crucible are also important to people of the 21st century as they can teach us a little bit about people around us and their reactions when

The views on Giles Corey range from a great amount of perspectives. He s an elderly feisty farmer in Salem, famous for his tendencies to file lawsuits. Giles has been sent to court due to accused of witchcraft. Giles Corey has become a true hero in my opinion. Throughout the play, Corey changes from a foolish of man, then into a hero who courageously dies for his family. Giles Corey is the perfect example of why The Crucible is mainly focused on courage, weakness, and truth. By dying for his family was a beautiful artifact. Significant people like John and Francis would not do such a thing for their own spouse. Including John and Francis would not do such a thing for their own spouse.

‘The Crucible’ is an allegory. An allegory is a story with an obvious meaning but if you look deeper into it, there is another meaning. In this case, the obvious meaning is the Salem witch-hunt and the hidden meaning is McCarthyism. McCarthyism started in the early 1950’s and it was governmental accusations with no evidence. Joseph McCarthy started doing trials on those he thought were communist, but he had no evidence for it. This is the same as the witch trials in The Crucible. Arthur Miller wrote this in response to McCarthyism.

The Crucible was written in 1952 by Arthur Miller and was first performed as play on January 22, 1953 in the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway. The setting of the book is Salam, Massachusetts in 1692-93 and the characters are all Puritan colonists. One of the main characters is Giles Corey, an 83-year-old hotheaded farmer who is married to his third wife. Throughout the book we see many characters have some role in groupthink and Giles is no exception. Groupthink is the tendency of decision making groups to suppress opposing opinions in the interest of group harmony (Hill, “Groupthink”). In Arthur Millers, The Crucible, Miller depicts Giles Corey as a character who was a follower of groupthink then someone who had no part in it by showing how he changed throughout the book in order to prove Miller’s belief that different circumstances change people.

Giles Corey values his family, he also values that his family is provided for after his eventual death, you can see he values his family when he goes with Proctor to get their wives out of jail even though he is sort of the reason she is in jail. By trying to get his wife out of jail Giles pays a steep price he not only gets a bunch of other people jailed which can not be good for his conscience but he also gets jailed and accused of witchcraft in the process. The second instance you can see that he values his family and values that they are provided for after his eventual death is ironically at the time of his death. As seen when Milles writes “ He would not answer aye or nay to his indictment; for if he denied the charge they’d hang him surely, and auction out his property. So he stand mute, and died christian under the law. And so his sons will have his farm” (Miller 1328). In the play we see Elizabeth explaining to john how Giles died. Elizabeth explains that Giles was asked to confess Giles however, refuses to confess because he knows that if he does not confess before he dies his children can keep the farmland he owns. Not confessing and dying Giles pays the steepest price he can for his values and that is his life. I feel that this also says that Giles is a very stubborn man willing to do anything to prove a point and defend his

Imagine being accused of something you never did just because someone had something against you. That is exactly what the characters in “The Crucible” were going through. The author, Arthur Miller, used the play as an allegory. He wanted to compare the Salem witch trials to the McCarthyism. McCarthyism, created by Joseph P. McCarthy, was popular during the cold war and it falsely accused people of being a communist with no evidence to support the accusation. It became popular because of the spread of communism in China and Europe. In the United States, anyone could accuse someone of being a communist and could ruin their lives. That is exactly what Miller was trying to portray in “The Crucible.” If someone accused another person of witchcraft their whole lives could be turned upside down. They could even possibly be hanged. Throughout the story there are an abundance of arguments. Most of the arguments come from Act III in the courthouse. The arguments are all different, but they all end up being the same in the sense that people are being falsely accused. The arguments that are like that include Giles accusing Putnam, Proctor accusing Abigail, and Parris accusing Proctor.

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 was not executed for refusing to name a witness, as in the movie. The play is accurate: he was accused of witchcraft, and refused to enter a plea, which held up the proceedings, since the law of the time required that the accused enter a plea. He was pressed to death with stones, but the method was used to try to force him to enter a plea so that his trial could proceed. Corey probably realized that if he was tried at all, he would be executed.” (Burns 4)

Several characters that accused others seemed to have other motifs than to cleanse the town of witchcraft. One, for instance, was Thomas Putnam. Putnam was a wealthy and greedy citizen of Salem. During the play, he accuses people of witchcraft to acquire more land. In the play, Giles Corey states that Putnam told his daughter to accuse George Jacobs of witchcraft. If Jacobs were to hang, the only citizen in Salem wealthy enough to buy his land was Putnam. Giles reported this and when he would not name the man who told him, Danforth arrests him for contempt of court. They torture Giles by placing large stones on his chest, making it hard to breathe, until he confesses. The only words Giles spoke were “more weight”.

As the trials go on, many more accusations are made. Giles Corey accuses Putnam of trying to get other landowners hanged for witchcraft so that he can have their land for himself. Marshall Danforth asks for a source and the person’s name. Giles says that he cannot give out the person’s name. Giles is in the court because his wife, Martha Corey had been arrested and accused of witchcraft. She gave away a pig to a man, and the pig became ill and died shortly after the pig was acquired. Francis Nurse is in the court because his wife, Rebecca Nurse was arrested too. He along with Giles continue to confront Danforth about Putnam’s doing, but Danforth responds with that they will have to put their thoughts into writing