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    Proctor, Mary Warren, Reverend Parris and even Reverend Hale had changed drastically because of what they had to go through during the course of the play. However, other characters such as Ezekiel Cheever and Marshall

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    they are only about themselves and other people do not matter to them. In the Crucible Arthur Miller introduces Parris, a minister looking for fame and fortune with his motives being strictly based on his selfish ways, which in turn this becomes his main weakness. He becomes wrapped in himself so much he will do anything to rise to the top even if it means death for the opposition. Parris does not hide his greed for fame and fortune throughout the play as he accused many times by Proctor for wanting

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    they turned their colony into a place almost as bad as the place they left from 2) People were able to say things that weren’t true about the people they disliked in order to get them in trouble 3) Tituba – The slave of Parris. Abigail – niece of Parris. Betty – daughter of Parris. 4) Mrs. Putman believes this because of all the children she has lost at birth. 5) Putman is bitter because he didn’t become the minister of Salem 6) What he says means that Abigail will pay for what she has done and

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    were believed to be witches (Background Essay). Prior to the hearing in Salem witch trials were carried out in several different towns. “In 17th century New England witchcraft was a serious crime (Background Essay).” Two girls aged nine and 11, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, identified a slave name Tituba and two other local women as witches. This led to the accused women being carted off to jail starting the Salem Witch Trials. Without the girls having accused Tituba and two other local women the

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    The Crucible Characters

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    who Reverend Parirs -The minister of Salem’s church he is paranoid about his home being invited by a witchcraft and is power hungry Betty- Reverend Parris 10 year old Daughter who falls into a strange sickness after Parris catches her and the other girls dancing in the forest with Tituba. Her mother is dead. Abigail Williams- Reverend Parris niece. She used to work (servant) for John Procter but his wife Elizabeth fired her for having an affair. She works for Paris now. Tutuba- Reverend Parris’s

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    The Crucible Reflection

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    Massachusetts. The main characters are John Proctor,Abigail, Parris, Hale,Danforth,Elizabeth. The story is mostly about witchcraft and court and the whole court is a fraud and all the girls have lied to the court and have gotten innocent people killed. Abigail is one of the worst characters in the book because she lies and acts all innocent and tells the others girls what to say and do to stay out of trouble. Betty is the daughter of Parris and Parris is a minister so it looks bad because since he is a man

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    secret jailer and was kept in a shed for a whole year. The people who caused the deaths of many innocent people were Abigail, Samuel Parris, the three other girls, and the many people who were afraid. Abigail was the one who started everything. She acted like she was possessed and started to accuse people of being witches with the help of her parents and Samuel Parris. This tiny incident led to a big massacre which killed 20 people. The main reason people believed in Abigail was because she was a child

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    Mary Warren, Reverend Parris, Elizabeth and even Reverend Hale had changed definitely due to what they needed to experience amid the progress of the play. Notwithstanding, different characters, for example, Ezekiel Cheever and Marshall Herrick did not so much change recognizably. Reverend Parris, John Proctor and Reverend Hale are some of the characters in "The Crucible" that this paper aim to discuss in reference to the change that they underwent. Reverend Samuel Parris is an individual from

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    Crucible is a story about a small town in salem Massachusetts. The story starts out with reverend Parris finds his daughter and other girls Dancing in the woods His daughter later grow ill and becomes sick and he con not wake her up. He then calls the doctor and the doctor can not find anything medically wrong with her. The doctor suggests that the problem could be religion related. Reverend Parris gets information from some of the girls that were dancing in the woods with his daughter that the

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    from the devil and tell people not to lie, cheat, or sin, but when the play ends Hale has tried to save lives by telling those accused to lie and sin. Therefore, he has actually damned the very souls he came to save. In The Crucible, Reverend Parris’ actions were supposed to keep his good standing in the community but actually caused him to lose the town’s respect. Reverend Hale came to Salem to save

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