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Arthur Miller's movie, The Crucible and the play both have heaps of connections and diversities. All of them help forward a underscored message in both of the productions of the Crucible. Arthur Miller diligently made it clear to consolidate countless differences from correlating the two, you can conveniently identify the changes, additions, deletions, and the character patroyal.
The changes in the movie are deeply flamboyant. One of the biggest changes is the main event for the cause of the Salem Trials. In the movie, the audience sees the girls running to the woods very surreptitiously, practicing witchcraft, in the play it was mentioned through dialogue in Act 1. In addition to changes, in the play Reverend Hale states that he signed 72 death warrants, but in the movie he signed 17 death warrants. There was only one deletion that I saw that was very noticeable. In the play when John Proctor was accused, he snached his warrant out of his wife Elizabeth's hand, but in the play he never showed any anger towards Elizabeth. Further
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One example of an addition in the movie is the addition of horses and dogs in the movie, these animals were never mentioned in the play. In addition to the add-ons ,in the play Tituba was threatened to be wiped for witchcraft, but in the movie she was actually whipped. Furthermore, At the end of the movie Abigail visits John while he’s in prison, but in the play she runs away after he is accused. Another example would be the showing of John Proctor, Martha Corey, and Rebecca Nurse hanging, while in the play they only accused and mentioned they were being hung. The extensions in the movie caused more emotion to the audience better than the play because we were informed on what happened after John was left to hang. The effect of adding the hanging scene was very emotional, because all three of the accused were innocent, and they were restating a verse from the bible as they were getting

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