Act I and act II of the Crucible is composed of a hair-raising, lively and historical plot. The readers are introduced to many characters with unique traits that impact the play tremendously. Additionally, many of the characters are considered to be round and complex which infers that their personalities advance throughout the story. Three characters that go through an influential and drastic change in the beginning half of the play are Mary Warren, John Proctor and Reverend Parris. Overall, although most of the characters in the story had a slight conversion, certain characters’ changes overshadowed others.…
Changes. Everyone goes through many different changes in their lives. In The Crucible, written by Arther Miller, many of the characters go through changes, such as Elizabeth Proctor. The Crucible actually means a severe test or trial. Elizabeth is one of the characters in the story who goes through a small test of faith and honesty.…
In Arthur Millers’, The Crucible, Miller demonstrates how certain situations can change a characters opinion or point of view, with enough evidence. Reverend Hale is a prime example who experiences change from confident, to doubt and frustration of the court, and then regret of the innocent being persecuted because of his wrong accusation during the witch trial executions in the town of Salem, Massachusetts.…
In The Crucible by Arthur Miller shows both sides of dynamic and static characters. Though, there are a few minor character there are character in the story that are dynamic like John Proctor and Abagail as a static character.…
The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, takes place during the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. In the play, there are many dynamic characters including Abigail Williams, Reverend Hale, and John Proctor. Throughout the play, readers determine whether John Proctor is a good man or not. Proctor constantly changes throughout the whole play.…
The Crucible, a play written to criticize the Red Scare, involves a theme which focuses on how the characters change as an effect of the intensity and hysteria of the town’s witch trials. Elizabeth Proctor and Reverend Hale, two major characters in the play, experience internal changes as the play progresses due to the individual pressures of the witch trials. Elizabeth Proctor faces the test of having been accused as a witch, having her husband be accused and condemned as a witch, and trying to move past her husband’s affair with a local girl. Reverend Hale was challenged by the corruption of the ministry in Salem and encountered much adversity while doing his job, seeking out witchcraft. Both of these characters come to realize the witch trials only result in death and lies, which causes these characters to evolve.…
Conclusively, the three characters faced with the most severe test throughout Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, are Hale, Mary Warren, and John Proctor. Hale’s crucible is most seen toward the end of the book first seeing everything in black and white and now seeing the grey in between. Secondly, Mary’s crucible was failed and she ends up causing more problems when she really wanted to solve them. Finally, Proctor, who had to battle himself constantly over the bad decisions he has made, but ends up passing his crucible by accepting it and forgiving himself. These characters show the trials they and others went through during this time in Salem and how they beat or failed them. They realized their mistakes and in some accounts tried to right…
A dynamic character is a major character in a work of fiction that encounters conflict and is changed by it. In The Crucible, Reverend Hale is dynamic character. Reverend Hale has evolved into a better person, and has learned to try and do the right thing. To start off Reverend Hale strongly believes in the Puritan lifestyle and beliefs. When witchcraft was heard of in Salem he was brought to help get rid of the problem.…
In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, a hysteria of witchcraft that sweeps across Massachusetts changes the citizens of Salem, transforming some into monsters and helping others to realize their mistakes. Miller’s description of the character John Proctor at the start of The Crucible seems to describe another person as his change becomes more prevalent throughout the play. Proctor is at first consumed with guilt and despair, but he comes to find pride in his name, and he will hold on to the meaning he has finally found in his life for the short time he can.…
Sequential to the 1692 Salem witch trials, Author Arthur Miller transcribed the mishaps and vindictive behavior in his play The Crucible, which portrays the hysteria and consternation of the town. An exemplar woman named Elizabeth Proctor exhibits the arbitrary and discriminatory circumstances. In distinguishing, unlikeness Mary Warren impersonates a girl whose hesitancy and uncertainty guides her to condemn many lives. The play depicts the inequitable mobocracy and unjustified perpetrations provoked by self-indulgence and greed.…
Some of the characters in The Crucible stay the same but a few of them change. To me the characters who changed are Mary Warren, John Proctor, Elizabeth, and Rebecca Nurse. They change from the beginning towards the end of the play, starting out to be innocent but then each of those characters start to change who they are.…
A tragic hero is a noble man who commits a fatal flaw. The hero’s downfall is a result of their choices which leads to a punishment that exceeds the crime. The Crucible took place in Salem, Massachusetts during the time of the Salem witch trials. Throughout the story of The Crucible written by Arthur Miller, there were many dynamic characters. Characters that learned and grew as the story developed. John Proctor has many characteristics that made him one of the most important dynamic characters of the entire book—he was an upstanding, brave, and a dignified person.…
The definition of a crucible is a place or situation in which concentrated forces interact to cause or influence change or development. This applies to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in the fact that the small town of Salem, Massachusetts is changed dramatically when a girl and her friends make accusations against people for practicing witchcraft. Many individuals such as Reverend Hale, Mary Warren, John Proctor, and Elizabeth Proctor were also changed through a series of events. Yet there were some people who did not change, even after what they went through. Examples of these people are: Parris, Abigail, Deputy Governor Dansforth, and Judge Hathorne. Of all these characters, the individuals that should definitely be examined in deeper detail as to whether or not they changed are Abigail Williams, Reverend Hale, and John Proctor.…
“And being what she is, a lump of vanity, sir- . . . She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance, and you must see it:” (Miller 102). The Crucible by Arthur Miller shows greed and vengeance of the Salem townspeople in 1692. Miller is trying to show the government what they are doing with the communism trials and why they are so unfair. The witch trials closely mimic the communist trials in that the root of it was selfishness and greediness. Most of these characters actually lived and some of these events actually happened. Arthur Miller wrote this play to show the people what was going on was wrong. Protagonist, John Proctor, antagonist, Abigail Williams, Reverend Parris, Thomas Putnam and many others hold grudges, are immature, and selfish because of their long-term burning desire for revenge. Events happening in their life now are adding fuel to the fire.…
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” (H. P. Lovecraft). The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is set in a controversial religious part of history that uses strict morals and disquietude to install panic of the unknown. In The Crucible, the reader can see that Abigail is a depraved, vengeful, manipulative, evil minded young girl who uses fear and spite to dictate the world around her. Using her vengeful and nasty, unforgiving past of witnessing her parents getting bashed in the head right next to her pillow helped her form a wall to hurt others before they hurt her. To be above everyone else at all times by using her evil mind, malicious words is how she sees success and safety in herself.…